XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: BounceDave2702@yahoo.com   
      
   "Anthony Buckland"  wrote in message   
   news:HJednXSocdU8PgXfRVn-hA@look.ca...   
   > We have decried the way the finale (may the fleas of a thousand camels   
   > infest the   
   > appropriate regions of its writers and producers) ended without THE SPEECH   
   > THAT THE WHOLE EPISODE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.   
   > I have taken the immodest route, of writing the damned thing.  It is of   
   > course   
   > totally inhabited by my own ideas of how the present works and how the   
   > future, specifically that of the Federation's universe, should work.   
   There   
   > seems to be some confusion about what was being founded -- the episode   
   > refers to the "Alliance," but canon says the Federation was founded in the   
   > same year, 2161.  I've steered a middle road on this.  I've also taken the   
   > liberty of assuming that WWIII grows out of our present long-term   
   > confrontation between democratic systems and ones which are theocratic   
   > or totalitarian.  Finally, I'm conscious that I've sort of stolen Abraham   
   > Lincoln's Gettysburg opening.   
   >   
   > Warning: those with a negative attitude toward the USA and all its works   
   > may not find their latest meal sits well within them if they proceed   
   > further.   
   >   
      
   Would we really have wanted to watch a speech that even if it went on a   
   shortwhile probably would have lasted for at least five minutes and to be   
   honest couldn't have lived up to the fame of the speech (why would such a   
   writer be writing for Enterprise when business would pay far more)   
      
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