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This is the first time that I've tried linking to a Tumblr post, so I hope it works as advertised. (Thanks to scarfman for reblogging the post on Tumblr.)

It's gratifying to know that Leslie Fish's classic filk "Banned from Argo" is still a part of the collective fannish consciousness. At every midnight filksing at every con that I ever attended, BFA was a mainstay of performance and participation (even though the opening chords were often greeted with "not again" groans--unsurprising, maybe, considering how many hundreds of times the song has been sung over the last forty-plus years).

Hearing the song performed by its composer brings back so many good memories. Leslie's novelization of the filk is available on AO3, and is highly recommended.

The song imprinted itself on my consciousness so strongly that it inspired the setting for the prologue to Any Other Lifetime. My hypothesis was that (as the Tumblr post suggests) both the song and the events that it recounts are definitely A Real Thing in the Trek universe.