From: rezabek1037@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: !! ATTENTION ALL !!
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:20:53 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

ANNENTION ALL CONCERNED: 

Home node is the campus of the University of Northern Iowa. I haev a peculiar
request for information, towards the ends of getting started a creative project
of potentially significant proportions. 

The University of Northern Iowa was one of the founding bodies of a nation-wide
organisation known as the "Model United Nations." In this program, various
participating universities become the secretariat for (originally) high school
students through-out each state who role-play various countries in deliberation
in the United Nations. Topics are given and resolutions are drafted, using the
standard rules of order and country blocs. Needless to say, the role-playing
can get intense.

Last year, at one of our conferences, I got an idea. It was to bring about a
"Model United Federation of Planets." Within this organisation, fans and
creative individuals would be able to role-play various planets in
deliberations. Actual mythological infrastructure could grow in and of itself
over time; an organisation in which a city or concentration of people was
allowed to develop to their ultimate ends the societies and motivations of a
culture such as the Klingons or the Romulans or the Binars or any other would
eventually yield a depth and richness of culture and interplay that would take
creative teams for Paramount years to develop. Fans could spend several days at
a nationwide conference, NOT only sampling fandom material, but ACTUALLY
PLAYING A PART IN DEVELOPING THE STAR TREK MYTHOS. 

My idea is this: go to The Higher Ups with the idea, outline in explicit detain
the initial possibilities and functions, and take steps towards getting said
organisation, the Model United Federation of Planets, registered as a
sanctioned entity. The advantages for the Higher Ups are obvious: they would be
responsible for allowing the existence of the richest
artistic/cultural/creative/educational force in U. S. history. One of the great
things about Mode U.N. is that by debating other countries points of view, an
empathy is gained. We ALL know the power of Science Fiction in general, and
Star Trek in particular, of SPECULATIVE FICTION. These actual situations, being
worked out in M.U.F.P. deliberations, would send a signal that fans of Star
Trek are INTIMATELY involved and concerned with the shaping and up-keep of the
future. 

The advantages for fans? If you're anything like I was when the idea struck me,
you're feeling it in your GUT. IMAGINE re-creating "historical background
sessions" such as the establishment of the Neutral Zone buffer areas, or
re-creating the Khitomer COnference. IMAGINE being a PART of creating the
mythos; say, Vulcan-Romulan steps...? This inter-tied with the works of
Paramount would ensure Star Trek's place not only as an integral part of the
mythos of the human race (it's ALREADY that) but also the first known example
of such a mass creative role-playing situation, generating mythos with
biological realism. 

2 questions: 1: Interested (straw poll)? 
             2: WHO, EXACTLY, DO I CONTACT TO SUBMIT THIS IDEA THROUGH THE
                PROPER AND EXPEDIENT CHANNELS?

If you can, please reply with info on what the next step is to take at my home
node: 

"REZABEK1037@iscsvax.uni.edu"
 Head Rapporteur, Iowa Division Model United Nations.

(ps: i've written some fiction, too, speculating Spock's stay on Romulus, but
that's for another day...) 

Thank you all!  ;)

rez
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