wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire) (07/27/84)
This is being forwarded through me to NET.STARTREK. I only do some basic formatting and I am not responsible for its content. All responses sent to me will be forwarded to the author. Re: The God in the Machine I was enormously interested in someone's suggestion that the *Enterprise*'s warp drive works by "imploring subwarps". I didn't realize they were sentient. Of course, if you employed them, then you would have to pay them, and Lord knows what coin you'd have to pay them *in*. Even Humpty Dumpty might have some trouble.... As long as opinions are being solicited, I think that attempting to combine Dr. Who and Star Trek is a horrible idea. (I hate Dr. Who. I hope it's safe to say that here; the fandoms seem to overlap a great deal.) It's my opinion that combining different fictional universes works only when the two are at the same level of seriousness, which is emphatically not the case with Dr. Who's and Star Trek's. Lest the originator of the idea be offended, I hasten to add that I think combining Star Trek and Gilbert&Sullivan is an equally horrible idea, for the same reason, although it is very appealing. Star Trek would not, I think, add versimilitude to Dr. Who's otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative: rather, each would show up the other's unintentional absurdities. "Comparisions are odorous." ------------ PDDB