So I was doodling around with an IC tirade about Fen-Mundane relations and this aside popped out of nowhere:
This paranoia about Chinese fen led to a brief but exciting period of Trekkie-smugling out of the PRC back in '09. Ask Maetel about the Great Beijing Fake-Out if you ever get the chance. I think one of the Klingon houses is composing an opera about it. Good times... but I digress.
The mental image is of the Trekkies making "lightning raids" around the country to distract the military while the Express, cunningly disguised as a Perfectly Ordinary passenger train, sneaks into Beijing, picks up a couple hundred Trekkies and sneaks right back out before the government realizes they've been had.
It's a hell of a mental image, if nothing else.---
Mr. Fnord
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This paranoia about Chinese fen led to a brief but exciting period of Trekkie-smugling out of the PRC back in '09. Ask Maetel about the Great Beijing Fake-Out if you ever get the chance. I think one of the Klingon houses is composing an opera about it. Good times... but I digress.
The mental image is of the Trekkies making "lightning raids" around the country to distract the military while the Express, cunningly disguised as a Perfectly Ordinary passenger train, sneaks into Beijing, picks up a couple hundred Trekkies and sneaks right back out before the government realizes they've been had.
It's a hell of a mental image, if nothing else.---
Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"