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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Fabrux: I think that historiography is the real-world profession which comes closest to our little hobby. The difference being that we are not historians examining real documentary footage and real technical manuals, but rather made-up footage and technical manuals. We merely need to decide whether we want to treat the two as real, or whether we want to treat them as made-up. I find it more interesting to treat everything as if it were absolutely real, because it makes you think harder and not use the excuse "it's a mistake anyway" when examining a particularily thorny issue such as the Prometheus registry. If there is no challenge in the thinking exercise, it seems pointless to memorize volumes of information about starships and everything else. Too much irrelevant info to warrant the purpose of "fun". So, what TerraZ is basically suggesting is to examine the issues, but not stress over the details because the footage is fake. Here's a question: let's say the footage is fake, because after all, it is merely an artistic representation of the REAL Star Trek universe (not a documentary about the real Star Trek universe, but a real MOVIE about the same, like James Cameron's Titanic as opposed to old Titanic footage). How would that influence our interpretations? Boris [This message has been edited by Boris (edited October 19, 1999).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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