My own take on Straker Post SHADO was simply that while he was single minded
concerning SHADO, he was an intelligent, well educated man who, once the
realization set in that SHADO wasn't needed in its former capacity, sat
back, re-evaluated what needed to be done and what he really wanted to do
and went ahead a did it - my version had Straker heading up a Mars mission,
bringing many of SHADO's people with him to the Project. Besides, the aliens
will probably never be discounted as a threat - if Earth is a target for one
group, there may be others out there and SHADO would transform itself into a
watcher.
Some NASA super to Ford: "But there aren't any bad aliens out there, so why
are you still looking for them?"
Ford: "Have the Israelis stopped looking for Nazis?"
Deborah
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Sorry, Robert. It wasn't clear what you were looking for. I thought you
just wanted to see a post-SHADO. I didn't realize that you were wanting to
see a post-Straker. That's not a scenario I've seen done successfully so
far. In my upcoming UFO: Next Gen series of stories, I'll be portraying
Straker post-SHADO. But he really won't be fully retired, because I don't
see why anyone would offer it to him. He's just too valuable a commodity to
let go. So even in those stories, he won't be completely "post." But since
he will also have a family that is involved with the daily running of SHADO,
he won't ever be out of the picture. I think he'd have to be dead to be
truly gone, and even then he'd probably haunt the place. *grin* Got any
suggestions on how a real Straker post-SHADO story would be played?
Yours,
Denise
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