--- Harriet Monkhouse 101637.2064@compuserve.com wrote: > Penny made excuses:

...

Unfortunately as an imaginary assassin I can only kill imaginary people, so you will first have to

present

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me proof that Ben Steed is an imaginary person.

*Imagine* killing him, then.

Do you think people like Ben Steed really exist, then?

Apropos of Messrs Steed and Jung, I remember reading in Jung's 'Answer to Job' his theory that the John who wrote the Gospel and the Epistles was also the John who wrote Revelation. His argument was that having written about love in the Gospel and the Epistles, he had to get all the pent up aggression out of his system by writing the book of Revelation.

Following this argument, given that Chris Boucher wrote wonderful, clever, nuanced scripts, did he have to get the confused misogynistic rubbish out of his system by writing HoK, Moloch and Power.

Could Ben Steed be Chris Boucher's Shadow side ?

Stephen Date.

P.S. And how thick am I for not realising until 30 seconds ago that the episode Shadow was named, not only after the drug but after the relationship between the Federation and the TN ? Doh !

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