But now, by merely mentioning it, it has been discussed. After a fashion. Name it and you create the discussion or at least you create the zone for the discussion.

BTW: They're doing the pledge drive on our local PBS station this week. I watched Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams with Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch and it turns out one of his childhood heroes was Captain Kirk. He instead got to meet William Shatner, and it happened when Shatner came to him to learn more about Virtual Reality for a book he was working on (about the science of Star Trek that has actually happened). Nice story. Pausch has since died, it really was his last lecture (pancreatic cancer, which he knew he wouldn't recover from at the time of the lecture.)

SRS