XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: no@spam.invalid   
      
   In article <10gvtevbbqt180f@news.supernews.com>, Paul Vader   
    wrote:   
      
   > Roddenberry, in his later years, somehow translated Star Trek in his head   
   > to some utopian ideal of peace, where war was in the past. In other words,   
   > he himself forgot what the show was all about. Whether that was stroke   
   > related or just rationalizations of an old hippie I don't know.   
      
   In the days of TOS, Gene hypothesized that the Enterprise carried a   
   platoon of Starfleet Marines.  So I'm guessing the hippie thing was a   
   delayed reaction.  :)   
      
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