Trivia / Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger

• What Might Have Been: The Federation arc was originally going to be a good deal longer, but the readers' complaints regarding some of the Author Tract tendencies led to a shortening of the story. Thus, the readers never got to see Babbage (Data) confronted about his creator's obvious shortcomings in the software and design departments, nor Lothario (Riker) getting a brief analysis of his sexual mores. (This was well after Riker had sex with a neuter...) To say nothing of the far-too-familiar-to-Trekkies argument regarding why Geordi needs a VISOR. Ironically, some readers believe they would have complained far less if the Author Tract had eventually moved on to these potentially-more-entertaining scenarios.