From: rezabek1037@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: !! MODEL UNITED FED of PLANETS !!
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:39:32 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

: heh. Bet you guys thought I was dead, no? No, just swamped. Nevertheless, I'm
working on getting a mail.service together here, as no-one has come forward
with the know-how... Has any-one thought much about a time-line detailing
needed legislation yet? Come on, now, share the load... ;) 

: For Those Who Do Not Know What's Going On Here: The Idea is a model of the
United Federation of Planets. Each member role-plays a certain member planet;
they memorise that planet's particular views, it's allies, it's likely
philosophies... eventually, when we work our way past "present day (TNG)" time,
we'll be able to Make Up lore... wouldn't you like do create a Ferengi creation
myth? or perhaps convert your philosophies into Vulcan Quasi-Temporality
Theory? (and this will require self-regulation... if you can't do The Idea
justice, don't Do the Idea...) Anyway, that's a ways down the road... for now,
we'll be working up Resolutions to fit into historical contextx with the
series, both and films, to add some private (and, The Dream says, eventually
PUBLIC) texture to the series we love. I'll be posting a sort of Model UFP Code
Of Ethics or Techniwues eventually... We' should begin by setting up public
debate around various "likely-to-have-been-debated" areas of the mythos... and
because we HAVE to come up with the Solution they did, we'll also get to learn
pre-tracked creative thought. (hahaha! this whole Project is actually a Secret
Re-Instruction Tool of PreCursor Origin designed to Enlighten a certain sub-set
of the world... STAR TREK FANS!! a-Hahahah!! ;) ) D
Does this clear anything up?

For now, I HAVE to get the mail service up before I can really start this thing
rolling... more requests of interest are accepted daily... some with position
requests. I don't think, at first, I'll be ssigning "Head Delegates..."
everyone will be on an equal level, as far as debate goes. WHEN we have an In
The Flesh Conference, then we'll worry about that. And we WILL some-day, folks. 
People interested in the same delegations are the following: they can, for now,
e-mail each other if they so desire and hash out what they know of their
delegations' philosophical approaches... maybe work out important facets of
their planets' secret time-lines... (by the by, apply ideas, now, to the
Federation of the OLD star srek... as I say, we're theorhetically starting back
there.)

STAR-FLEET/TERRA:       MATTHEW@OREAD.CC.UKANS.EDU
                   and  dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.EDU

KLINGON:                startrek@u.washington.EDU
                   and  goudswaa@sfu.ca
                         (who will also be Ferengi when we get there...)
                          He was also interested in Romulan...)

ROMULAN:                sdh5@po.CWRU.EDU

New Folks: you can ask to be on any delegation... since we'll not be starting
with Head Delegates, it'll work fine, and co-operation is what this is all
about, no?

Well, more when I KNOW more...

til then, the next post should tide you over... it's the Statement of the
Federation Grand Alliance...

rez. Secretary General of the 1st Plenary Model United Federation of Planets