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From: "Joseph Manno" 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

GS - These and other questions need to be addressed for a viable "Maga
Roma".

JM - No, they *really* don't---not in depth, at any rate. The proof of that
is in my own work: According to *numerous* intelligent readers, including
many of my fellow authors here, my Rome is *eminently* viable, vital and
entertaining, and I haven't addressed *any* of that.

Now I'll probably make oblique references to such concerns as you've
mentioned, but they'll serve as brush strokes that imply a canvas that's
never entirely seen, and doesn't at all need to be painted either by the
numbers or in minute detail.*

Your analysis, in my opinion, would be justified if the Rome of Star Trek
had been intended as some sort of carefully crafted alternate history, a la
Harry Turtledove. It wasn't. Thus, I have to say your points, while
entirely reasonable, qualify under the "Man who Hates Illusionists
Because He Knows
'It's a Trick'" school of criticism.

And it's *MagNa* Roma---"Magna" meaning "great" in Latin.

* - You may wish to pick up TNG novel THE CAPTAINS' HONOR, which deals with
some of the points you've addressed.


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