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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [qb] Well, to explain the Valiant reference, you've really got to draw the line somewhere. After all, "A Taste of Armageddon" does come from the early TOS period, before they'd definitively settled on "Federation" and "Starfleet."[/qb][/QUOTE]"A Taste of Armageddon" was episode #23, while "Balance of Terror" was episode #9. "Armageddon" referred to the United Federation of Planets and featured Federation Ambassador Fox (identified as such); if I'm not mistaken, they actually called the [i]Enterprise[/i] an Earth ship, too! So at that time, the Federation was established, but they used it somewhat interchangeably with Earth... as if it was something of an "Earth Federation," actually. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the original idea at the time, which would tend to support that the terms are interchangeable at least through TOS season 2. That's just speculation, though. [QUOTE] [qb]Making the Romulan War a pre-Federation conflict makes sense considering the timetable described in "Balance of Terror," after all -- Spock said "over a hundred years ago," so there's a rough time frame established. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm not saying it doesn't make sense. I'm definitely not saying it [i]should[/i] be a Federation conflict. I'm just saying that the idea that it has to be pre-Federation is pretty arbitrary. Even with "over a century," that's six years of Federation time, if one wants to stick it in there. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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