Finding out that in the star trek universe Vulcans invented velcro and sold the patent on Earth in 1957 so that a human teenager could afford to go to college like:

What? I need details on this. When did Vulcans even have contact with humans in the 1950s? Why did they care about some random human teenager?? How did this come up as a relevant storyline?

In “Enterprise” T’Pol tells Archer and Trip about how her great-grandmother and two other Vulcans crash-landed on earth in 1957 and tried to blend in with the humans in Carbon Creek Pennsylvania. They’re stuck there for a while and get pretty close to some of the humans. One of them is a teen boy who wants to be an Engineer, but his single mom can’t afford to send him to college. T’pol’s great-grandmother grabs a patch of velcro from the inside of their crashed ship and takes it to a manufacturing company and then anonymously leaves all the money with the family. Two of the Vulcans are rescued, but a third one decides to stay on earth to keep observing the humans in secret. Archer and Trip both think T’Pol made the whole thing up and she says “You just asked me to tell you a story” and then goes back to her room and takes out one of the ancient 1950s artifacts that had been passed down to her from her great-grandmother, revealing that the story is true. 

Every time I think Star Trek can’t show up with something more ridiculous I’m corrected

Thank you for this important history lesson!

#It gets better#the novels have this 3rd Vulcan occasionally working with Gary Seven as an outside contractor#and is STILL ARound after First Contact#taking over from Roberta Lincoln as the AEGIS agent

@spockvarietyhour YOU CAN’T LEAVE SHIT LIKE THIS IN THE TAGS!!!

There’s I think three separate novels that have flashbacks to the past (or in one case travel to) where’s he’s in it (Pretty sure it’s all Greg Cox’s novels too). His final fate beyond taking over the New York AEGIS field office post First Contact is unknown (he also didn’t let the Vulcans know he was there, just like…gonna work for this power I’ve known has a keen interest in Earth’s development - that I’ve never met - even after humanity’s  meeting my former colleagues). 

I mean, Greg Cox also had Gary Seven mentor Khan hoping to curb his instincts (guess how that went) in a two-part novel that included guest appearances from robot-daughter maker Flint and Guinan as a well known celebrity.

What I’m saying is if you want to the see the 20th (and 21st) century thru the eyes of Star Trek retcon, go to Greg Cox.