From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:20:37 AM UTC-7, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
      
      
   > > I have no intention whatsoever of using their actual names, except in some   
   specific cases.  Seton and Kineson and DuKane HAVE to have those names to make   
   the references stick.  Even then they aren't Richard, or Kimball, or   
   'Blackie'.  (and yes I do    
   actually know how to spell the original)   
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   > 	I've already done that in GCA; if your depiction is respectful, the    
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   > estate probably won't have an issue with it.   
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   > 	Now the TREKverse characters, yeah, tiptoe around that. I've done that    
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   > with Maria-Susanna.   
      
      
   I actually don't have much in mind for Trek references.  Yeah, grandad is   
   basically Kirk with more sex, at least as the Bosun tells it, and yes, he did   
   once claim that aliens had stolen his first officers brain, but nothing beyond   
   that.  Except maybe to    
   mention the far stars exploration fleet.  It basically serves the function of   
   Star Fleet, but mostly exists to be mocked.  (and no, grandad was not in it).    
   Remember the scene in Casablanca with the dueling national anthems?  I imagine   
   a bar and the far    
   stars fleet singing the star trek them, you know, with the (god awful) words   
   Roddenbery actually wrote for it...   
      
   The good guys can sing 'Our Patrol', which is problematic for me, as it is a   
   fictional song and Doc Smith didn't write lyrics for it...     
      
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