To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Garry Stahl 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

Joseph Manno wrote:

>I mean, perhaps Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Development is bullshit. What if
>the Q have been interfering/playing with humanity for quite some time? Maybe
>that planet was uninhabited/a tabula rasa until the instant SS Beagle
>scanned it, and the Q created and placed the *entire Roman society* there,
>artificially advanced to the point at which we see it in TOS. This explains
>why societal and cultural systems that in Garry's opinion would not have
>survived were still in place there (although already strained, from what we
>saw in "Bread and Circuses"): They never *had* to evolve.
>

It explains it, but involves Q again.  Trades one bad idea for one worse. 
I would rather call it the fifth neo-classical period filtered through
Hollywood.

Mind you that in spite of a back stabbing society and civl wars every time
you dropped a hat.  Rome lasted for nearly a thousand years in one form or
another.  The society as a whole had a some kind of internal stability. 
The leaders could hack, stab, and poison each other whilly nilly but
society marched on.

What brought Rome down was outside forces (And lead plumbing).  Rome got
too big for it's technology.  It out stripped it's own ability to
communicate and deal with crises.  Without competition Rome might have
lasted longer.

I'll give Magna Roma it's 2000 years.  It's the only player in it's puddle.
 What I don't want is a stagnant 2000 years or the intervention of YAGLB. 
I can even pin point when the preservers did the grab.
 Pompeii.  Who is going to miss people that supposedly died in a
volcanic eruption?

I'm not trying to piss in your sand box here.  I am trying to get some
depth and color to a rather tattered set of "used furniture"



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