The Second American Civil War (known simply as the Second Civil War) was a conflict of the Human civilization fought in the United States of America nation on the planet Earth's North American continent in the early 21st century, circa the 2020s decade, according to fragmentary historical records.
History and specifics[]
Protests at the US Capitol.
In the year 2259, Captain Christopher Pike related details of the breakdown of the American state during first contact with a humanoid culture, the Kiley on Kiley-279. He described the continuing deterioration as leading to the flare-up of a phase of the Eugenics Wars, and ultimately resulting in World War III. Pike commented that the various wars started with this "eruption" were caused because of individuals desiring freedoms. (SNW episode: "Strange New Worlds")
- "I've seen my future. Let me show you yours. Our conflict also started with a fight for freedoms. We called it the Second Civil War, then the Eugenics War, and finally just World War III. This was our last day. The day the Earth we knew ceased to exist. What began as an eruption in one nation, ended in the eradication of 600,000 species of animals and plants and 30% of Earth's population. Global suicide. What we gave you is the means to exterminate yourselves. And from the looks of you, you're gonna do it. You'll use competing ideas of liberty to bomb each other to rubble, just like we did, and then your last day will look just like this. Perhaps, somewhere, all your ends are written as indelibly as mine. But I choose to believe that your destinies are still your own. Maybe that's why I'm here — to remind you of the power… of possibility. Maybe that's the good in… in seeing my future — that I might remind you that, right up until the very end, life is to be worn gloriously."
- —Captain Christopher Pike, 2259
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- Referenced in the SNW premiere episode released in 2022, and using stock footage from 2020 election protests and the January 6 United States Capitol attackWP in 2021, the writers of this dialogue correctly predicted the divisive changes in the US government that occurred following the 2024 election.
- A historical archive screen in ENT episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II" noted 2026 as the beginning of World War III. It is possible that phase of WWIII was actually this conflict, or coincided with this conflict as Pike phrased it in "SNW", or that this conflict preceded it and there was overlap.
- It was noted in SNW episode: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" that history and the timestream have some tendency to "heal" back to an unaltered version of events after a temporal disruption caused by time travel, and that Romulan agents were infiltrating the timeline of Khan Noonien Singh and the Eugenics Wars and experiencing resistance to making alterations. It is possible that sources describing the Second Civil War, Eugenics Wars and WWIII take place in histories that have been altered from previous mentions.
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External link[]
- Second American Civil War article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
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