From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: billanderson601@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Wickeddoll wrote:   
   > Bill Anderson wrote:   
   >> Wickeddoll wrote:   
   >>> Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Mac Breck wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   "Your Name"   
   >>>>>>>>>>> "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Here's an idea for "Nemesis" that they could have done.   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Here's an idea for the next Star Trek movie:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>      Spock (Nimoy) wakes up on Vulcan and calls Sulu, Scotty,    
   >>>>>>>>>>> etc.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>      to tell them about the incredibly horrible dream he had    
   >>>>>>>>>>> last   
   >>>>>>>>>>>      night that was extremely realistic that even he almost   
   >>>>>>>>>>>      believed he had really travelled back in time, until he saw   
   >>>>>>>>>>>      what silly ideas his sub-conscious brain was feeding him.   
   >>>>>>>>>>> :-)   
   >>>>>>>>>> He could come out of the shower a la Bobby Ewing?   
   >>>>>>>>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!   
   >>>>>>>> He could wake up from some weird dream, like Dr. Robert "Bob"    
   >>>>>>>> Hartley?   
   >>>>>>> Best. Series finale. Ever.  But it can't be repeated.   
   >>>>>> Or have him looking at a model of the Enterprise in a snow globe ;)   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> You have great taste in entertainment, but ripping off "Citizen    
   >>>>> Kane" is a bit much, doncha think? LOL   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Natalie   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Oh dear.  That 'whoosh' you hear is St. Eligius going by overhead.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm still whooshing - WTF are you talking about?   
   >>>   
   >>> In Citizen Kane "Rosebud" was a sled, and he had a globe with a sled    
   >>> in it.  Where did I go wrong?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You didn't watch the best drama series ever on TV: St. Elsewhere.  In    
   >> the final sequence we see the St. Eligius hospital is actually a    
   >> miniature building inside a snow globe sitting on top of a TV and we    
   >> learn the whole series has been imagined by an autistic child who    
   >> later was cured and became Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman's son or    
   >> something like that.   
   >>   
   >>  From IMDB's bio of Chad Allen:  As a boy, he played the autistic    
   >> character Tommy Westfall on the TV series "St. Elsewhere" (1982). At    
   >> first a minor character, Tommy took on great significance in the final    
   >> episode when the entire series was revealed to have taken place inside    
   >> his head. This has given rise to a fan theory known as the "Tommy    
   >> Westphall Universe Hypothesis," which states that numerous shows that    
   >> are connected to St. Elsewhere through character crossovers or dialog    
   >> references have also taken place in Tommy's mind. For instance, the    
   >> show had a crossover with "Cheers" (1982), and several characters from    
   >> "St. Elsewhere" were featured in "Homicide: Life on the Street"    
   >> (1993). From those links, the program can be linked to at least 280    
   >> other non-animated shows, ranging from "I Love Lucy" (1951) to "CSI:    
   >> NY" (2004) (as of 2007).   
   >>   
   >> --    
   >> Bill Anderson   
   >>   
   >> I am the Mighty Favog   
   >>   
   >    
   > Ah - thanks!   
   >    
   > Natalie   
      
   Here he is with the snow globe:   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TommyWestphall-TheLastOne-1988.jpg   
      
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   Bill Anderson   
      
   I am the Mighty Favog   
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