[Marc]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]>> Oh, yeah: why the Egyptian-Hittite battle of 1294 BC? Any particular reason? <<

Nic mentioned to me when he submitted his fiver that he had recently been reading about the Hittites, and that he'd been struck by the fact that their mysteriousness made them sound very Romulan. He speculated that Picard, who's interested in archaeology, had devised some bizarre theory on the subject that he was constantly trying to tell people about. [/colorost_uid0]