Star Trek Celebrates First Contact Day Decades Early With New Panels and Marathons
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Zefram Cochrane initiates the handshake heard 'round the quadrant. (Image: CBS)
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April 5 — 42 years from now — it’s “First Contact Day” in the
Star Trek universe. It’s the day that, give or take some attempted intervention by the Borg, humanity’s Zefram Cochrane meets Vulcans for the first time, catapulting humanity into a galactic standard way beyond Earth. To mark the momentous day, we can expect…some news?