LJ> Are you sure you haven't met my husband yet?  Most of the authors you
 LJ> mentioned are in his collection. I happen to *LOVE* R. A. H. and
 LJ> Burroughs. I cut my teeth on Heinlein as a teenager. Asimov is
 LJ> definitely one of the classic SF writers of our time. Of course you
 LJ> can't leave out H. G. Wells.  In the horror genre, how about
 LJ> Lovecraft? Read any of him?
Yep.  Funny thing...  Just a couple of weeks ago, someone over in the SF Echo 
posted a line from Lovecraft which should sound familiar to Trek fans.
>> "At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and
>> cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs...Carter [the hero]
>> resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before..."
>>                           H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream Quest of Unknown
>>                                             Kadath"
Now, is this a case of Roddenberry paying homage to Lovecraft, an unconscious 
recollection of a line he'd read, or mere coinkydink?
CFN, O
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