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>I wonder if worlds like Miri's planet, the Yang/Com world and Magna Roma a=
re
the result not of Preserver interference, but rather the last remnants of
other destroyed quantum realities transferred into the canon Star Trek
universe by resident Qs who didn't want their particular little playpen
completely annihilated.

I tend to take these worlds not exactly as shown in their respective
episod= es.  I consider none of them
to be Preserver transplants of Earth cultures.  What culture is Miri's
worl= d a transplant of anyway?
In "Miri," the exact duplicate Earth was a plot orphen, as Garry
mentioned,=
 and so can be thrown out
without changing the story.  I personally felt that the original creators
o= f the episode decided that
since the aliens were so human-like in appearance, they had to explain that=
 somehow by saying it
was a duplicate Earth.  If this story had never appeared in TOS, and the
pr= oducers came up with that
storyline for an episode of "Enterprise," I doubt that they would
use a dup= licate Earth.  Afterall, we've
seen enough human-like aliens to accept that.  As for "Omega
Glory" and "Br= ead and Circuses,"
I interpret those worlds as alien, but having some elements of particular
E= arth cultures, such as
the cold war or elements of Roman culture transplated into a more
technolog= ical society.  Looked at
in depth, these worlds can be quite different than what we saw in the
episo= des.  "Omega Glory"
was the kind of story that might have worked, were it not for the
heavy-han= ded American symbolism
like the flag and the constitution.  Something similar, something that
repr= esented the ideals of the
United States and not an exact duplicate, would have been better.  As for
M= agna Roma, that does
sound like an interesting world, as some writers have realized.  I've added=
 it to my newly-revised
map of the Federation zone, but I don't plan on writing any stories that
in= volve it, at least not yet.  I'll
leave that for Joe.

"Miri," "Omega Glory" and "Bread and
Circuses" are examples of semi-canonic= al episodes in Steve-
Trek, which means that for the purposes of my interpretation of the
"Star T= rek" universe, those episodes
happened, but not exactly as portrayed.

Steve
The Universe Unbounded.

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>I wonder if worlds like Miri's planet, the Yang/Com
world and Magna
Roma arethe result not of Preserver interference, but rather the
last remnants ofother destroyed quantum realities transferred
into the canon Star
Trekuniverse by resident Qs who didn't want their particular
little playpencompletely annihilated.
 
I tend to take these worlds not
exactly as shown
in
their respective episodes.  I consider none of them
to be Preserver transplants of Earth
cultures.  What culture is Miri's world a transplant of
anyway?
In "Miri," the exact
duplicate Earth was a plot
orphen, as Garry mentioned, and so can be thrown out
without changing the
story.  I personally
felt
that the original creators of the episode decided that
since the aliens were so
human-like in appearance,
they had to explain that somehow by saying it
was a duplicate Earth. 
If this story had
never appeared in TOS, and the producers came up with that
storyline for an episode of
"Enterprise," I doubt
that they would use a duplicate Earth.  Afterall,
we've
seen enough human-like aliens to accept
that. 
As for "Omega Glory" and "Bread and
Circuses,"
I interpret those worlds as
alien, but having some elements of particular Earth cultures,
such as
the cold war or elements of Roman culture
transplated into a more technological society.  Looked
at
in depth, these worlds can be
quite different than
what we saw in the episodes.  "Omega
Glory"
was the kind of story that might
have worked, were
it not for the heavy-handed American symbolism
like the flag and the
constitution. 
Something
similar, something that represented the ideals of the
United States and not an exact
duplicate, would
have been better.  As for Magna Roma, that does
sound like an interesting world,
as some writers
have realized.  I've added it to my newly-revised
map of the Federation
zone, but I don't plan
on writing any stories that involve it, at least not yet. 
I'll
leave that for Joe.
 
"Miri," "Omega
Glory" and "Bread and Circuses" are
examples of semi-canonical episodes in Steve-Trek, which means
that for the purposes of my interpretation of the "Star Trek"
universe, those episodes
happened, but not exactly as
portrayed.
 
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
 
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
 







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