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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> And in _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_, Jake Sisko grows up a fiction
> writer - I think season four includes both the episode where his
> old-age famous-writer self remembers the technobabble
> discontainment that swallowed up his father (retroactively undone,
> I think), /and/ the one where a psychic-vampire muse lady feeds on
> his writer mojo.
What about the whole "Benny Russell" thing, in which Commander
Benjamin Sisko "was" a black science fiction writer in New York City
in the 1950s, writing a story about a space station in deep space
that had a black man as its commander? That occurred in the
sixth-season episode "Far Beyond the Stars," and was raised again
later (in the seventh/final season, iirc) on when Sisko began to
break down mentally under the strain of his various duties as
military commander on the one hand and religious prophet on the
other[*1].
*1: For a "variant on Clarke's Law" version of same, of course.
> Oh, and the _U.F.O._ series is set in a film studio with a secret
> base rather pointlessly underneath it. The secret commander poses
> as, / is/, the studio head, and presumably is involved with
> scripts as well as everything else.
It wasn't pointless -- it was a "hide in plain sight" operation in
which they could move uniformed/spacesuited/whatever personnel,
bizarre equipment, weaponry and vehicles, and even pieces of alien
spacecraft around in the open without anyone noticing.
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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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