Two years ago, there was some interest in Sam Clemens' appearance in the
season finale of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_.  A recent article that
might also be of interest to you is Valerie Fulton's "An Other Frontier:
Voyaging West With Mark Twain and _Star Trek_'s Imperial Subject," which
appeared in the May 1994 _Postmodern Culture_ (v.4, n.3), and which is now
available from the Mark Twain Forum filelist.  To retrieve a copy of this
essay (which is 8,000 words long, or 60K in computer-speak), send a message
to either <[log in to unmask]> or <[log in to unmask]> containing
the single line:

     GET FULTON PMC TWAIN-L

To get the latest version of the Survival Guide, which explains how to
manipulate the filelist, search the archives, sign off the list, etc., send
the command:

     GET SURVIVAL GUIDE TWAIN-L

Please be careful to send these commands to LISTSERV, not to TWAIN-L.

If you have a file or set of files that you'd like to make available to
Forum subscribers in this same fashion (e.g., an article you've written,
and for which you retain the copyright, or for which you desire
subscribers' comments and suggestions), send it directly to me at
<[log in to unmask]>, and I'll be happy to add it to the filelist.  You
can save me some time and effort by pre-formatting your file as follows:

     a.   Each paragraph should be indented five spaces, and there should
          be a blank line between each paragraph.

     b.   Indicate italics (e.g., for book titles) with surrounding
          underscores; for example, _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_.

     c.   Em-dashes are represented by two hyphens with no surrounding
          spaces (a long dash looks--like this).

     d.   Use double-quotation marks (") for titles of short works and
          quoted speech; single-quotation marks (') should enclose a
          quotation that is within a larger quotation.

     e.   Please do a spell check.

The preferred file format for submissions is WordPerfect or Microsoft Word,
but plain ASCII text is also acceptable if the file is neatly formatted,
and the left and right margins are at columns 0 and 75 (in order that text
does not straddle the line breaks).

Taylor Roberts