Great Britain
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| Great Britain | |
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| Location: | Europe, Earth |
| Affiliation: | United Nations |
| Capital: | London |
| Head of State: | Monarch |
| Head of Government: | Prime Minister |
| Major Species: | Humans |
| Military: | Royal Navy Royal Air Force |
| Intelligence Service: | MI5 |
| Language: | English |
| Currency: | Pound |
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Great Britain, also known as Old Britain, was a nation-state on Earth in the 19th, 20th, and 21st century. Residents of Great Britain were known as British, Britons or Brits. The flag of Great Britain, known as the "Union Flag", was two red crosses (representing the patron saints of England and Ireland) superimposing on a white cross on a blue background (representing the patron saint of Scotland). (DS9: "Our Man Bashir"; TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; ENT: "First Flight", ENT: "Storm Front")
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[edit] History
Great Britain was the winner of a legendary battle early during World War II against Nazi Germany. (DS9: "Homefront") After the battle, in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States of America pressured the United States Congress to send aid to the British. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
During the 1960s, Great Britain was involved in the Earth Cold War. (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")
In the late 20th century, Great Britain was a founding member of the European Space Agency. (ENT: "First Flight")
- Great Britain was a member of the International Space Agency in the early 21st century. (Star Trek Fact Files)
The Royal Academy in Old Britain mapped areas of space well into the 2060s, including Sherman's Planet in 2067. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
[edit] Alternate, Parallel, and Imaginary Britons
In an alternate version of 1944, caused by activities within the Temporal Cold War, after England was taken over by Nazi Germany, Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged all Britons to continue to fight for either anarchy or order in World War II. These events were witnessed by the Enterprise (NX-01). (ENT: "Storm Front")
In the holoprogram Julian Bashir, Secret Agent, set in the Cold War, the government of Great Britain paid for every item and luxury that secret agent Julian Bashir would need for his espionage and intelligence gathering duties. Garak was incredulous that a government would even pay a spy for trivial items such as an apartment and weapons. (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")
In a holoprogram used on the USS Voyager, British intelligence were in contact with the French Resistance in Sainte Claire. (VOY: "The Killing Game")
[edit] Geographical details
Great Britain governed over Scotland and England. (VOY: "Year of Hell") It was separated from Europe by the English Channel. (DS9: "Homefront")
[edit] Other locations
[edit] Culture
- Literature
- Music
[edit] See also
| Former Earth countries |
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| Algeria • Armenia • Australia • Belgium • Brazil • Canada • Chile • China • Confederate States of America • Cuba • Denmark • Egypt • Fiji • France • Germany • Great Britain • Greece • Iceland • India • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Japan • Korea • Malaysia • Mexico • The Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Peru • Poland • Russia • Samoa • Senegal • Singapore • South Africa • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • Thailand • Tibet • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics • United States of America • Venezuela |
[edit] Background
Another major portion of Great Britain is the country of Wales. Wales was only loosely referenced once, with a reference to Welsh rarebit.
The term "Great Britain" was used once, in a 1960s holoprogram in DS9: "Our Man Bashir". It was referred to as "Old Britain" by Spock in TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles".
In the real world, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged with Ireland in 1801 to become the United Kingdom (or UK). It was still known as the UK in the 1960s when Bashir 62 was set.
Given the Irish Unification of 2024 (established in TNG: "The High Ground") it could be speculated that the UK would've returned to the Kingdom of Great Britain after that date.
Dialogue from "Our Man Bashir" and "The Trouble with Tribbles" implies that Britain no longer exists as a sovereign country in the 23rd and 24th century. It may have lost its sovereignty by joining the European Alliance or United Earth.
The script of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "To the Death" described the position of the Defiant's security officers facing the Jem'Hadar on the transporter platform as being "like British infantry". Later in the script, the rogue Jem'Hadar's weapons are described as being "like a cross between the halberds used by British beefeaters and Japanese naginatas."
