"I'll mention Bart to Romana, if you want. That might be the best place to start. I'm not really sure having Bart go interplanetary as well as inter-temporal is necessarily a good idea, since unlike my colleague Dr. Venkman, I don't carry syringes of psychoactive medication around with me on a regular basis."
He rubs at the bridge of his nose. "The United Federation of Planets is the interstellar government postulated for most of Earth's sector of the Milky Way galaxy in the television show, movie series, and other entertainment formats collectively known as Star Trek. It started its run in 1966 in my world. Lasted three years but developed a massive fan following, and there are so many variations on it by my time that I don't think it'll ever die... the Prime Directive says that members of the Federation aren't supposed to interfere in the social or technological development of non-member civilizations at a lower stage of advancement, which is of course bupkis. Any explorer interacting with a previously unencountered civilization is going to interfere with their development even if all he does is stand in the bushes and go 'ooh, shiny'. I remember my anthro 102 classes well enough to remember that... The creator of Star Trek was a man named Gene Roddenberry, and frankly, so far as I know the only reason he even stuck the Prime Directive into the TV show was so that he could make a moral point about the U.S.'s involvement in the Vietnam War."
"There's at least one character from Star Trek here in the bar. I've met the ship's doctor from the starship Enterprise twice now- he's a man named Leonard McCoy, about so tall, blue eyes, Southern accent. He pointed me at some studies on human telepathy from his time that're absolutely fascinating, so I gave him my Milliways research and a copy of Tobin's in return. I don't think he knows about the multiversal nature of this place, though."
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He rubs at the bridge of his nose. "The United Federation of Planets is the interstellar government postulated for most of Earth's sector of the Milky Way galaxy in the television show, movie series, and other entertainment formats collectively known as Star Trek. It started its run in 1966 in my world. Lasted three years but developed a massive fan following, and there are so many variations on it by my time that I don't think it'll ever die... the Prime Directive says that members of the Federation aren't supposed to interfere in the social or technological development of non-member civilizations at a lower stage of advancement, which is of course bupkis. Any explorer interacting with a previously unencountered civilization is going to interfere with their development even if all he does is stand in the bushes and go 'ooh, shiny'. I remember my anthro 102 classes well enough to remember that... The creator of Star Trek was a man named Gene Roddenberry, and frankly, so far as I know the only reason he even stuck the Prime Directive into the TV show was so that he could make a moral point about the U.S.'s involvement in the Vietnam War."
"There's at least one character from Star Trek here in the bar. I've met the ship's doctor from the starship Enterprise twice now- he's a man named Leonard McCoy, about so tall, blue eyes, Southern accent. He pointed me at some studies on human telepathy from his time that're absolutely fascinating, so I gave him my Milliways research and a copy of Tobin's in return. I don't think he knows about the multiversal nature of this place, though."