Neil wrote:
What Justin actually said was "Most of my pupils of your time are...are dead, perished in the Galactic War. That war was a terrible, terrible mistake."
You can get really, really picky here (so I'm going to:) ). A *galactic* war needn't mean the war with the Andromedans at all, but the warfare that implicitly broke out across the galaxy as a result of the Federation's losses fighting the Andromedans. We know that the post-war galaxy is in chaos (Servalan, 'Children of Auron'), that a coup on Earth has failed, and that Servalan's Federation doesn't add up to much (Grose, 'Moloch') - all indicators of a fragmented galactic community. It doesn't necessarily follow that the Andromedans themselves did all that, only that they permitted the circumstances in which it could happen.
That is all extremely interesting stuff.
(FWIW, there was never any reference to an Andromedan War either - that is pure fanon. And the Andromedans were never referred to as anything but 'the aliens'.)
But I can't see most fans taking any interest in all this because it's got nothing to do with shagging.
I'm interested, Neil. I'm wondering if I can work it all into that new theory that the 'aliens' came to our galaxy to bring us democracy whereupon Blake helps the Federation destroy them.
Una