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By: John Clark (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:45:23 on Aug 19, 2004

Colonel Green rocks!!

Also, why is it when a Democrat massively breaks wind in an elevator, they expect you to inhale deeply, to take in the essence of their wisdom?

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By: Rhett Quacklah (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:54:44 on Aug 19, 2004

If Manny Coto knows about Col. Green then he's been watching TOS to get some ideas for episodes. I mean, that character ain't exactly well known by the general populace like, say, Khan. That alone impresses me. It looks like he's actually doing his job and trying to make this a true prequel series.

I do think however, they can do too much "name dropping" from TOS because if everybody knows everybody else then kind of gets ridiculous and unbelievable...like having relatives of established characters from other series in every other episode.

So, hopefully they will do this enough to make it convincing and effective but not go over the top with it...

Now, proceed to ignore my opinion. :)

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By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:39:07 on Aug 18, 2004

As I noted in the interview thread - unless some unusual plot device is deployed (cloning, advanced being, flashback, time travel, cryogenics, etc), Colonel Green is a 21st century entity, NOT a 22nd century (ENT-era) entity.

Coto has a big job ahead. ;-)

There have been 76 episodes of ENT after 3 seasons. Few of these begin to richly develop the 22nd century and I am hoping this "vision" looks to build on what we know about this time - and this includes the "new" World Government on Earth that we discover per TNG "Attached" (written by Carl Sagan's son Nick), was finalized around the time of 2150, ie., where Beverly Crusher, in debating Picard regarding the membership aspirations of a planet they were about to deal with, noted the following (which I have posted before several times):

"Think about Earth -- what if one of the old nation-states, say Australia, had decided not to join the World Government in 2150? Would that have disqualified us from being a Federation member?

Ie., this was an analogy in reference to some of the discord happening on the planet at the center of their next mission. We know that ALL "nation-states" on Earth joined this new Earth government and this happened BEFORE the Federation was actually founded.

But the key here is that the creation of the new Earth World Government happened RIGHT DURING ENT'S TIMEFRAME (hint hint Manny... ;-)).



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