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horatio horatio is offline Fleet Admiral Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 9,244  You described well why humankind has united. For
the first time in human history there was an outside gaze and
they did not want to look petty in the eyes of the Vulcans.
Although neither species wanted this quality of their
relationship there was a paternal element to it. The Vulcans
have been the father who overlooked the progress of their son
and the son had to rebel to get out in space. But we don't know
what happened in the ninety years between first contact and the
launch of the first warp 5 vessel so the unification (being the
old lefty that I am I was about to write unionization) did not
happen overnight and might have very well taken decades. It
could have been a very bumpy ride with some wars and as you
pointed out once warp-capable ships were mass-produced a faction
with a totally different philosophy might have left Earth. But I
have my doubts that there are still s