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By Mordechai Shinefield

As seems de rigeur for

this sort of post, let me prove my Star Trek bona fides (or lack

thereof) before going forward. I was a child of Star Trek: The Next

Generation, only three years old when it premiered, but ten when it

concluded and old enough to remember the season finale broadcast. I

later caught up on every episode of that series. I have also seen more

than a handful of the original series, and about two to three dozen

episodes of Deep Space 9. So I'm not trekkie, as it goes. But ...