There was something familiar about all this, but I couldn't put my finger on it until I found this speech Zefram Cochrane made eighty nine years ago. When I was a kid, I read everything I could about him. It took me a while, but I finally found it in the database. He was giving a commencement address at Princeton when he started to talk about what really happened during First Contact. He mentioned a group of cybernetic creatures from the future who tried to stop his first warp flight when he was living in Montana. He said they were defeated by a group of humans, who were also from the future.
As I recall, Cochrane was famous for his imaginative stories. He was also known to be frequently intoxicated.
No one took him seriously, and he recanted the whole thing a few years later, but you have to admit there are similarities.
[reading Cochrane's transcript] He said their ultimate goal was to enslave the human race.
If he was right, they might be heading back to their homeworld, so they can try again.
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