The first deep space colonists on Earth evolved into a new species

the Star Trek The galaxy has always been inhabited mostly by humanoid species, the in-and-outs Star Trek: Year Five No. 18 has been underrepresented for a long timea trip The species, the Centaurs, an explicit story of human origin, reveals that they are the evolutionary descendants of Earth’s first colonists in deep space.

Alpha Centauri, the nearest solar system to Earth, has long been a primary target for human exploration outside the solar system. Released in 2021, Star Trek: Year Five #18 – Written by Jim McCann, Illustration by Angel Hernandez – Confirms that the first human colony was founded there by Zefram Cochrane, the human inventor of the warp drive. Over the centuries, the colonists have adapted to the planet’s original atmosphere, evolving far from the main humans.

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The Centaurs have distanced themselves from Earth – literally

Star Trek: Year Five Centaurus have appeared throughout their career, and are depicted as a humanoid species with distinct geometric pattern markings on their faces. continuation Star Trek: The Original Series, Year Five It tells the events of the last year of the Enterprise-C mission. In issue #18, the homeworld of the centaurs has been ravaged by a deadly infection, Proxima Centauri, a major disaster that Kirk and crew must try to avert. In this issue, Spock explains the origins of the centaurs, including the idea that the original colonists, who arrived in the late 21st century, wanted to distance themselves from Earth, not only in space, but also culturally. Over time, this distance also became biological.

The horns made a huge difference to the Centauri

Outside of the TV series, there have been numerous references to centaurs over the years as well Star Trek Books, games and technical guides, some sources even list it as one of the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets. The relationship between Zephram Cochrane and the Centaurans goes back a long way The original seriesin which the episode introducing Cochrane (“Transformation”) refers to him as an “Alpha Centauri”. Star Trek: Year Five No. 18 illustrates the relationship between Cochrane and the Centaurs, while also allowing for the possibility of an exploration of their importance to the early union as well.

The early years of human space expansion remain exciting, though under-explored in the franchise’s timeline. movies like Star Trek: first contactas well as the TV programme projectProvide tantalizing glimpses of how humans became interstellar beings. After breaking the warp barrier and learning that they are not alone in the universe, humans set to work to eradicate social problems and ills, and eventually restore their war-torn world to a livable one, from which they attempt to construct a utopian vision of the future. while different a trip Brief glimpses of this era in human history have been provided by the media, much of which remains unwritten.

first season project The episode “Terra Nova” depicts an early attempt to colonize deep space that ended in disaster, suggesting that this period in pre-Federation and pre-Stellar fleet history of Earth’s space exploration is likely to contain as many failures as it does successes, as in Centaur case. And while the Centaurs evolved far from their terrestrial ancestors, but still maintain a physical and biological structure close to human, it is possible that other attempts at human colonization of space, which branched further from the human evolutionary tree, are still present there in the Star Trek The galaxy is waiting to be discovered.