In a message dated 3/2/01 9:21:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:
<<but to go looking for specific incidents in particular episodes is unlikely to turn up anything. The Britishness of the Federation (by which I mean here its ideology, the mindset of its citizens, not its social or political structure) is vague and elusive, wafting through the scripts, unseen but yet subliminally perceptible. >>
And there endith this discussion for me, in a nutshell. If you've got a 4 series television show about which you can't cite a specific proof of British origin for its society...save for that which is vague, elusive or subliminal, then you have a future society of Earth. Not a future society of Great Britain. If Terry Nation had wanted to portray a British-decended society, he could have easily done so, in some manner as jingoistic as Roddenberry's OMEGA GLORY episode of Trek, or as subtle as a relic of the Empire on Servalan's desk. I believe he went to some trouble to make it a future society that was NON-specific to any nationality, and as far as this non-British viewer perceived it, he succeeded perfectly.
Leah