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** ''[[Star Trek]]'' also goes back and forth on this in regards to the [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|Eugenics Wars]]. In the original series it was said to be a massive worldwide conflict that took place in the 1990s. Later this was [[Retcon|Ret Conned]]ned (Latter admitted this as havingthe takenresult placeof ina mistake on the 22ndpart century,of andwriter oneRonald episodeD. ofMoore<ref>he based it on Khan''Voyagers "two hundred years ago" line from ''The hasWrath themof timeKhan'' traveland backforgot to 1990sadjust Californiait withfor nothe apparentlater wartimeframe of ''Deep Space Nine''</ref>) as having taken place in the 22nd century. However, canon nevertheless went back to the 1990s explanation eventually, with at least one semi-canon novel [[Author's Saving Throw|claiming]] the Wars were [[Secret War|clandestine happenings]] underlying the publicly known events of the 1990s.

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** The first ''[[Metal Gear 1987(video game)|Metal Gear]]'' came out in 1987 and takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] in the year 1995 (or 1996, depending on the source), while ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'' came out in 1990 and takes place in 1999. Both reference the [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|Soviet Union]] and the StB (Czechoslovakian Secret Police) still being around, and one character in ''Metal Gear 2'' (a Czechoslovakian woman named Natasha) compares her doomed romance with an American (Frank) with the Berlin Wall (which was destroyed the same year the game came out). The plot summary of ''Metal Gear 2'' that was included in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' attempted to retcon some of these details by claiming that the army Zanzibarland fought for their independence was not from the USSR, but from the CIS, and by making Natasha (who herself was later renamed "Gustava" in re-releases of the game) into a ''former'' StB agent.