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

Allyn Gibson wrote:

>The Preserver theory has its plusses, but building planets doesn't
>seem much like their style.  I presume that the AlphaCent Preserver
>transplant world doesn't look like Earth, isn't massed like Earth,
>etc.  I presume Betazed doesn't look like Earth, isn't massed like
>Earth, etc.  I presume Miramanee's world doesn't look like Earth,
>isn't massed like Earth, etc.  So, why would the Preservers take
>humans and leave them on worlds that were dissimilar to Earth, but
>actually go and create a world that looked like Earth, was massed like
>Earth, etc., for the Magna Romans.  Or Miri's people.  Or the Yang/Com
>world.
>

Simple.  I ignore the "Earth-alike" worlds.  It was a stupid idea
to start with.  Manga Roma, Miri's World and well the Yang/Con story will
not make it into Epiphany Trek canon without serious editing.  None of
thise worlds are Earth duplicates.

The Hodgkin's law of parallel development I take a little more
scientifically.  what it generally says is that world will develop along
the same lines.  A stone age, a copper age, an iron age, a machine age etc.
 One follows the other in a predicable progression.  Technological advances
can be charted on a graph.  Not that you well get duplicate Romes,
Babylons, Englands, etc.  Exact cultures and symbologies, not to mention
languages and clothing styles.  These are not duplicated, nor are they
expected to be.  It is meaningful to speak of an Iron Age Tellor, or a
Machine Age Andor.  It is not meaningful to look for an Italian period on
another world.


>(And if you want to opt for the Preservers, I presume that there are
>Andorian worlds, Vulcan worlds, Tellarite worlds, etc.  Why should
>humanity be unique in that regard?)
>

I don't figure they are.


>What if the transporter effect is, in some way, a natural phenomenon?
>
>
Interesting, but a little far out for my tastes.


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