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Some 600 million people died during this war. In the post-atomic horror afterwards, much of Earth reverted to a barbaric state, and legal systems were adopted that ended many individual rights including the right to legal counsel. An attempt was made to execute all Lawyers during the post-atomic horror, which was at the very least largely successful. The New United Nations was disbanded after failing to end the war through peace efforts. The '' that the Eugenics Wars were not a global conflict since an episode of that series featured a visit to Los Angeles in 1996 , seemingly untouched by the war. One philosopher of the time was ) One of the key players in the Third World War was Colonel Green who led a violent faction of Ecoterrorists during the war. Their actions resulted in the deaths of over 37 million people (a figure quoted by Mr. Spock in the Original Series ). Also, after the war's end, Green personally ordered the deaths of thousands of victims of Radiation Poisoning in an attempt to keep the human Genome 'pure' and free of mutation. Another major faction in the conflict was the Eastern Coalition of Nations (ECON). The ECON's true nature has never been revealed, although most fans assume that the ECON were one of the main villains of the conflict (when the . Following the war, with almost no major governments remaining (the United States Of America was one of the few remaining nations), Earth was left to slowly recover from the nuclear carnage of World War III. Scientific advancement continued, however; in 2063 the development of the first Warp Engine was followed by first contact with Vulcans , ending the chapter of the post-World War III Dystopia and beginning one of prosperity and hope. The United Earth Space Probe Agency was formed, launching first the unmanned probe '' Friendship One '' and, following that, the manned spacecraft '' S.S. Valiant ''. The exact ending of the post-atomic horror is uncertain. ''Star Trek: First Contact'', which takes place in 2063, implies that it was already over. However in the TNG premiere episode, '' Encounter At Farpoint '' Q mentioned that the trial he was holding for the Enterprise command crew was based on a court of the year 2079 . This would indicate that the post-atomic horror did not end until at least 2079. But Deanna Troi mentioned to Cochrane that fifty years after first contact in 2063, war, poverty, and disease had been eliminated from the Earth. Within 100 years of Zefram Cochrane making his first warp flight, humanity had solved most of the problems that had plagued them for centuries, and worked to become a full member of the interstellar community. episode ''Bread and Circuses'' said that 37 million people had died in World War III, but ''Star Trek: First Contact'' gives the death toll at 600 million, although the Federation's records of this period have been described as "fragmentary." Trek Encyclopedia CDROM We now know that the 37 million of which Spock spoke were directly attributed to Colonel Green himself, rather than the war as a whole. The ending of the war has never been laid out in detail, however Lily Sloane mentions that a cease-fire had been declared (Star Trek: First Contact). |
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