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8 hours agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Cutoff
I wrote a previous comment on this, but pretty much this exact same thing happened, and it caused the Donner Party. The real life guy was somehow even dumber than Zapp Branigan, and later helped establish the famous colony of ex-confederates in Brazil.
A lot of people from Star Trek TNG were involved in making it. Once I heard that, it clicked that this is basically a really good extended TNG episode where they don’t leave the ship