Okay following this trail of posts between Jt, Raf, and now the Judge.
I think you all painted the picture pretty well and with the tone change by JT on the fireside chat. AZN is a definite possibility for partnership/BO.
The only other reason I can think of for running the STRENGTH trial alludes to the point made by the Judge. If the trial in essence fails meaning less than 10% RRR and not stat sig. Now if we are in bed with AZN does this not give them/us the ammo they/we need to show all the Lovaza and GL prescriber's that V is the only choice and they/us would take the entire prescription omega 3 market?
Trial failure is in the picture, but AZN aren't running a 19k trial, expecting failure and my scenario was for a successful trial... in other words, upon successful STRENGTH, AZN would have to do #1 or #2.