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- [Narrator] People have been predicting the end
of the world for thousands of years.
Whether it was the Mayans predicting the end in 2012
or Christians waiting for the rapture
as described in Revelations,
humanity is fascinated with the end of times.
Even as recently as 2002,
the Messiah Foundation International
predicted the world will end in 2026
from an asteroid impact.
But that isn't the only prediction slated for 2026
that could end the world as we know it.
And this prediction comes from an unlikely oracle,
it comes from Star Trek.
As crazy as that sounds, it's true.
Star Trek chose the year 2026
as the year earth would start World War III.
- We fought three world wars that almost destroyed us.
Whole generations were nearly wiped out.
- [Narrator] Writers of Star Trek's Original Series
were less than two decades removed from World War II,
so the idea that there would be a third one
wasn't a far off notion.
If it were any other television show,
people wouldn't give it much thought,
but Star Trek has been credited with predicting the creation
of incredible things that would end up coming true.
From Uhura's Bluetooth earpiece to Starfleet communicators,
which we would end up calling cell phones,
and of course the computer, which today we call Siri,
Cortana and OK Google.
Even the iPad and 3D printing replicators
were all imagined on Star Trek way before their time.
And if Star Trek did predict World War III,
it's right around the corner
and a few things have come to light
that tell us Star Trek may be a whole lot better
at predicting the future than any of us may want.
So buckle your seat belts and get ready for a wild ride,
because if we're right, this is one Star Trek prediction
no one wants coming true, except maybe the Klingons.
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In Star Trek lore, World War III is described
as a devastating nuclear conflict
that would eventually result in the destruction
of major world cities and governments
as well as the death of 600 million people after 27 years.
- Earth's third world war, nuclear weapons accounted
for 600 million casualties.
- [Narrator] But 10 years later, in 2063,
Zefram Cochrane would leap into warp speed
and our Vulcan friends would inspire
a new hope for humanity.
So if Star Trek has it right,
what could spark World War III?
The earth today is a boiling cauldron of social, political
and economical upheaval and we've come up with a theory
that we think will knock your socks off.
But first, let's get back to the beginning.
The specific action that starts World War III
isn't mentioned in Star Trek,
but it is believed that Colonel Phillip Green
and his Ecoterrorism group started it in 2026.
But since we know the likelihood
of there being a Colonel Green alive today
waiting to be the next Hitler, is slim to none,
we have to look at any similarities.
Also, earth's History in Star Trek
had Eugenics wars in the 1990s
that pit gene-altered superhumans against world governments.
While not totally clear, some believe these Eugenics wars
lead to the Ecoterrorism groups in 2026.
Eugenics or the idea of breeding out
lesser desired human qualities
were still prevalent in the minds of Star Trek writers
in 1966 when the Episode Space Seed was written
about Khan and his group of superhumans.
Hitler and the Nazis had used Eugenics
to support the extermination of entire races
only a couple decades earlier.
Eugenics ultimately failed as a science
in the 1930s and '40s,
but those writers had lived through it.
The more interesting aspect of Khan and his group
is that they had also been genetically altered
and that's where things start to get interesting.
Star Trek may have been wrong about the Eugenic Wars,
but they were right about gene editing.
The Human Genome Project started successfully mapping
human genes in 1990,
and the CRISPR principles of gene editing
were discovered in 1993.
Star Trek successfully guessed that we'd have the ability
to alter people's genes in the 1990s and they were right.
In 1996, Dolly the Sheep was cloned
and it shocked the world.
Cloning was stuff of science fiction.
The Question everyone wanted to know is,
would humans be next?
Also, where do you ethically draw the line
when it comes to altering human genes?
The line on human cloning was drawn very early.
The United States congress started voting
to ensure cloning was illegal as early as 1998,
and by 2018 more than 70 countries had banned human cloning.
Gene editing, on the other hand was more of a gray area,
Gene Therapy used to treat or prevent disease, maybe.
Altering the genes of embryos to enhance
or change a baby's genetics, no way.
It would be 20 years after Dolly
before an attempt at Gene editing an embryo
would go public again.
But this time it was human.
A scientist in China had used CRISPR technology
to edit the genes of embryos
and have them transferred into women,
in hopes they would develop into babies and be born.
There was one success and it was a woman who had twin girls.
- Two beautiful little Chinese girls.
- [Narrator] Did they end up being superhumans
as a result of his fiddling?
No, apparently the doctor was attempting to remove
the possibility for the babies to become HIV positive.
The Chinese government threw the man in prison
and said what he had did was an abomination,
but the scientist also claimed the Chinese government
had supplied the funding for his research.
Was China secretly altering genes
and this doctor was punished for going public?
Then in 2018 researchers cloned monkeys successfully
for the first time, making the leap to humans even closer.
And that's right, you guessed it,
that also happened in China.
- I've been saying China, China, China,
China, China, China, China, China,
China, China, China, China.
- [Narrator] So what if Star Trek was on the right path
correctly predicting gene splicing and human modification?
How does this get us to World War III?
If you are going to have a World War,
you are going to need powerful countries in that world
duking it out against each other.
In today's world, most people would agree
the three most powerful countries
are the United States, China and Russia.
It is no secret that The US doesn't get along with China
or Russia very well, which isn't surprising considering
China's desire to move ahead of the US, whatever it takes,
and Russia delighting in watching America
tear itself apart socially.
These world powers have something very important in common,
any one of them could completely destroy
the planet with nuclear weapons.
While unlikely that any government would want
to rule over a nuclear decimated planet,
Star Trek did refer to the time during World War III as...
- [Both] The Post-Atomic Horror.
- [Narrator] But let's get back to that in a moment.
First, let's focus on China.
Forget for a second all that human gene editing
and monkey cloning or even the fact
that our recent global pandemic came from there,
which some suggest was also modified in a lab,
let's take a look at the "Made In China 2025 Plan."
In 2015, the Chinese government committed
to becoming a world-wide technology intensive powerhouse.
This plan, which China hopes will leap-frog them
ahead of all other countries
and into the position of lone world power
would be complete only a year before Star Trek's
World War III would begin.
China is also determined
to have the world's most powerful Navy.
They've also created man made islands
in South China Sea shipping lanes,
which 1/3 of the world's trade passes through.
As a result the United States would commit
to keeping those lanes open.
Then add China's aggressive stance in the region toward
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, India and Australia
and tensions are hotter than they've ever been before.
If China were to take control of the region
in order to control global shipping,
tensions between them and the US would be equivalent
to the time of the Cuba Missile Crisis
which was between the US and Russia.
This is where we go back to Colonel Phillip Green
and his eco-terrorists.
In Star Trek lore, Green's eco-terrorists
killed 37 million people through nuclear bombing cities.
The science fiction fans in us wanna theorize
that China has been secretly cloning
and gene altering humans since the early 2000s
and now those humans have grown up
and by 2026 decided they wanted to take over the human race,
like Khan and, yeah, that's not it.
Fun, but not realistic.
- Khan!
- [Narrator] So this is what really might happen.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990,
there has been an incredible fear
about nuclear weapon security.
In 1968, the US, Russia, UK, France and China
all signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
which governs nuclear weapons possession.
Since then, four countries ignored the treaty
and built their own bombs,
Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea.
Russia managed to pull together it's nuclear arsenal
after the fall of the Soviet Union,
but there is great fear that North Korea
could sell one of it's warheads for the right price
and Pakistan has a radical element within it's military
with ties to terrorist groups.
This is likely how World War III would begin.
With Pakistan and North Korea both geographically close
to China, like Green's Eco-terrorist group,
a terrorist organization could release a nuclear weapon
against Chinese assets in an effort to make it look
like an attack from the United States.
With tensions already at the breaking point,
war would begin.
According to Star Trek history, the Eastern Coalition
fought against the United States of America
and the European Union.
Could this Eastern Coalition be China and Russia
or perhaps a combination of countries
on the Asian continent?
The Star Trek history also goes on to say
that the Eastern Coalition used drugs
to control their military.
China is a major source of precursor chemicals
necessary for the production
of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines,
and serves as a major transit route
for southeast Asian heroin
bound for international drug markets.
Still not convinced?
Then listen to Nostradamus.
Remember when we said he'd make
the Star Trek prediction stronger?
The 16th century oracle said this about world war III,
"In the city of God, there will be a great thunder.
Two Brothers are torn apart by chaos
while the fortress endures.
The Great Leader will succumb.
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
Is the big Thunder and brothers torn apart by chaos,
the detonation of a nuclear warhead?
Is the Great Leader, the President of China?
He is literally known as Great Leader Xi.
But the the last line is most telling,
the third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
Could that be Beijing?
And following that, does the Eastern Coalitions
attack the West?
Doubting Nostradamus?
Everything is up for interpretation,
but he eerily seems to have predicted
the coming of Adolf Hitler,
the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and perhaps even the Kennedy assassination.
When all is said and done,
I suppose all we can do is wait and see.
The possibility that Star Trek could have predicted
the start of World War III is unsettling at best,
but if it's true, then the good news
is that the future may be bright with a unified earth,
warp engines and a humanity playing among the stars.
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Star Trek predicted World War III?
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