XPost: alt.fan.tom-servo, alt.tv.star-trek.ds9, alt.tv.star-trek.voyager   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: corulers@holyducttape.com   
      
   On Oct. 24, 1997, Plain and Simple Cronan wrote:   
    > David wrote   
    >   
    > >Really? Wow, then Star Trek must be in trouble...   
    > >                 NOT.   
    >   
    > It certainly is. That is why I have arrived. Picture, if you able, a   
    > dark time dominated by people none too different than yourself, David.   
    > The usenet had fallen to these forces to orthodoxy who insisted Trek   
    > was good and 'just entertainment' in an effort to defuse all valid   
    > criticisms. They were powerful in their ignorance. Supreme in their   
    > desire to remain entrenched in the quagmire of their stupidty. They   
    > formed a cadre whose rallying cry, "If you don't like it then DON'T   
    > WATCH",  was so persuasive that some merely folded, having no response   
    > for this inept argument, and left. But not I. Oh no. I found several.   
    >   
    > I arrived with the sounding of trumpets and the power of a god to   
    > rectify this miscarriage of justice. The joyus chorus that errupted   
    > from the beleagured forces of the light were truly monstrous. With   
    > skill beyond the bounds of all that had been known before and powers   
    > so stupefyingly stupendous they continue to baffle one as great as   
    > myself, I gathered an army behind me and waves of sacrificial lambs in   
    > front, crushed Voyager Fandom into a itty bitty ball and slam dunked   
    > it on the razor sharp edge that is my intellect. With as much effort   
    > as it takes you to draw a breath into that otherwise useless carcass   
    > you mistakenly assume is alive I continue to do things that go far   
    > beyond your feeble comprehension. In my numerous attmepts to stoop   
    > down from on high and watch as you scurry and squirm under what   
    > amounts to my left big toe.   
    >   
    > Some have called me a messiah. Who am I to argue? Star Trek, a once   
    > proud franchise, is running dry. Only one such as myself with less   
    > respect for fans than Bragga could ever must, more greed than all of   
    > Viacom put together and a nifty talent for inflating my own importance   
    > can hope to save Star Trek from the vile and malignant cancer that you   
    > and those like you represent.   
    >   
    > Never doubt me. I am Plain and Simple Cronan, Captain of the USS   
    > Megadittos, Leader of Cronan's World Oligarchy and Supreme Ruler of   
    > the ALL   
    >   
    > What was it you were saying again? I seem to have to gone off   
    > track....   
      
   Oh, my kingdom for what Cronan would have done with Enterprise....   
      
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