> Jim Lovell smelled a rat, but he wasn't sure what kind.

Lovell... Lovell... DUH! Thats right, the guy Tom Hanks portrayed in Apollo 13.

> But if they weren't making a documentary about Project Gemini,
> what were they up to? And why had people he trusted, people he'd
> known for a long time, called him up specifically to say they thought
> he should come?

AH. What you smell is Wedge Rats pulling off Operation Hero, Jim. Though to be fair it took me a couple of seconds to figure it out myself even with the benefit of being on the other side of the meta continutity with referance notes available.

> "Anyway, we apologize for the ruse that brought you here, but we figured
> if we just walked up and told you who we were, you'd think we were crazy,"
> Gryphon said.
>
> "I'm leaning toward that explanation anyway," Lovell said dryly.

A wise point of view, especially given the way Z G and R ARE being the three stooges in this piece. Still its nice to see the clumsy, feeling their way into the job while faking it WDF again. You may not have had leet skillz then, but you all made up for it with heart.

> "... welcome to the Moon."

See? Who ELSE but the early WDF would see that as a wrong that needed to be righted?

I suppose I could be wrong about the Operation Hero part, though in a way this still fits even if they didnt offer him the omegawhatever retro virus and an eventual position with the WDF. Its more along the lines of just rewards, giving a hero his due even if its NOT immortality... Follow my train of thought there BA?