From: natalie@col.hp.com (Natalie Overstreet)
Subject: If Star Trek was Wiccan....
Date: 28 Dec 1995 16:10:50 GMT

I've been having an e-mail discussion with Rob Berry about Wicca and some
of its more esoteric aspects. He wrote me the following message concerning
a discussion of magic circles. It is reported with permission.  If anyone
takes offense, *I* thought it was pretty funny, knowing as I do that the
man means no slight towards Wicca. So there. :-)

I'm >, and Rob is unquoted test. Enjoy!

B*B,
Natalie


>For some Wiccans, the circle is like an energy wall that contains one's
>magic until one is ready to release it. These also generally hold that
>the circle is something that one must cut a door in if one enters or
>leaves, else the circle is disrupted.

All this talk about protective circles and the disruption thereof reminds
me of forcefield-related technobabble on Star Trek. Can you imagine if
Star Trek had been a fantasy show instead of a science fiction show?

Data: "Captain, there are Romulans getting in off the starboard bow!"

Riker: "Red alert! Cast the circle!" 

Data: [begins ritual]

Worf: "The Romulans are hailing us."

Picard: "Open a channel."

Worf: "Oh spirits of the Romulans! If you are here, give us a sign!"

[has a brief seizure, then starts talking with a Romulan accent]

"Surrender, Picard. We have our hexes trained on your warp cauldrons. You
cannot escape!"

Picard: "Come on, guys, can't we talk about this over some Earl Grey?"

[Romulan ship fires hexes]

Data: "The circle is down to 17%. Another hit and the circle will be
banished."

Geordi: "Captain, I could modify an inverted tetryon philtre in conjunction
with the ODN elixirs and the Crowley emitters to reinforce the circle."

Picard: "So mote it be! Er, I mean, Make it so! Whatever!"

Troi: "I'm sensing... lots of bull ____."

Everyone Else: "Shut up, Troi!"

Geordi: "The circle has been reinforced!"

Picard: "Fire photon athames!"

[Romulan ships explode]

Data: "The Romulan ships have been dispelled, sir."


>Others like myself hold that nothing can banish the circle except the caster
>(or casters in the case of a coven).

Riker: "I wish somebody had told the Romulans that." :-)

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