Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Peter Morwood & Diane Duane wrote:

> I think that's most likely to be forthcoming.  I have to go back to the
> canonical material and see exactly how much Vulcan material we do have
> now...I haven't been paying very close attention to ST:Voyager, and there
> may have been some additions while I wasn't looking.
>
Having watched some ST:Lost in - oops! ST:Voyager, I don't blame you,
although I'm holding out for the denouement of the Borg cliffhanger.

> Ooh, don't say that...that's how I got in trouble in the first place.
> People started writing to Gene Roddenberry and saying "We like Diane
> Duane's Romulans better than yours..."  Leaving aside my own feelings --
> that I was (a) perfectly happy to be noncanonical and (b) very annoyed at
> another creator being subjected to this kind of thing -- _I_ sure wouldn't
I have met one only one person who specifically who preferred Diane Duane
(TM) Rihannsu (TM)* to Next Generation Romulans. (*Any implied sarcasm is
not directed at Diane, please let me make that clear.)  I remember
thinking that in Unification part I, the narrow crowded street scenes on
the Romulan homeworld reminded me of similar televised images of China and
other Asian countries.  The idea of a non-human species that combined
elements of Classical Rome with Chinese culture intrigued me.  Romulans
are still fun to play with for ideas.  They are more enigmatic than
Klingons and Cardassians, and the existence of Tlhingan Hol has not
stopped some people from wanting to play with Klingonaase.

> There is no chance the Rihannsu will become canonical.  That's OK with me.
> I now have other questions to deal with, such as:  is it smart for a people
> and a language to have the same name?  Why the heck didn't I construct even
> a rudimentary grammar for this pile of words when I was working on
> ENEMY/ALLY?  And numerous others, which everybody will no doubt hear me
> pissing&moaning about for the next couple of months.  :)
>
Don't worry!  We will listen!

- andrew.

Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

        Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
        Light dies before thy uncreating word:
        Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
        And Universal Darkness buries All.
                        - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.