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[Star Trek] Zefram Cochrane's warp ship launch happens a week later then planned. The Vulcan ship cruises through the solar system without stopping. What is life like for humans in the 24th century without the Federation?
gpt
It would have only been a matter of time before someone picked up human warp signatures.

Vulcan is quite close to Earth, so Vulcan ships would travel nearby on a regular basis. First contact may have been made later on, perhaps after there was already a human colony established on Mars, but it would have been made at one point.

This delay could potentially have given Vulcans a better opinion of humans. Less of a barbaric species launching a warp powered spacecraft from a nuclear missile silo, and more of an early, peacefully expanding species that has already settled on a nearby planet.