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[Wowbagger]

Are there people who believe it? Sure. I mean, EAS does have a wide readership, and the ecological claim is at least based on something the producers said once, off-screen, in an unpublished book. Are these two theories plausible? I'll even grant that that they are.

But, in terms of canonicity, they are roughly on a par with Sixteenth Amendment conspiracy theorism and the "collective model" of the right to bear arms. Which is to say, they're made up out of whole cloth in order to justify a set of prejudices, and no one who treats the theories as binding can seriously call himself a canon originalist.

You're a Trekkie judicial activist raging impotently against the Abrams Supreme Court.

And I am enjoying this metaphor far, far more than is healthy.