Lana hugged him tightly. "I am nae a healer. I am DS! An Aide in the service of our Emperor. Lana, Diplomat-In-Aid Of Fhiah." She sang a song from an Earthan vid called Danger Service, a low-budget series about Diplomatic Service and diplomats fighting against the evil Elshars who want to make slaves of them.

I am a diplomatic aide

I will never be afraid

Of evil Elshars who make us buy

Sashes of yellow—

Dusty, hail-rid yellow!

I'll wear DS blue...

And my friend, you'll wear it, too!

I remembered many classes where we discussed Danger Service errors. In later episodes, the producers asked writers to include more subtle mistakes for the benefit of all the Sigan Mas students who requested more to find as they watched them. From the inclusion of wooden desks and paper on Elshar Mashai, a treeless world; to treaties written and signed on three worlds in a day's time to settle one episode's problem; to Zheien diplomats who, after three min regens, rose and defeated the evil Decadent, one of many villains, the show had a lot of impossible scenarios. Including Diplomats-In-Aid, who negotiated quick treaties between the Alliance and the Unified in place of the Emperor.

—Diplomat-In-Aid