From: utzoo!decvax!cca!CAIN@MIT-AI@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Stardates and ROTJ Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4718 Posted: Tue Dec 7 21:15:43 1982 Received: Thu Dec 9 08:50:05 1982 CAIN@MIT-AI 12/07/82 22:42:13 Re: Stardates and ROTJ To: sf-lovers at MIT-MC Just a quick note: Stardates are an arbitrary sequence of 5 digits (XXXX.X) in Star Trek. SUPPOSEDLY, they take into account relativistic effects, but noone has EVER explained that one to me. About ROTJ, Obi Wan, and "The Other"-- Why shouldn't Obi be corporeal [sic]??? ROTJ chronolgically comes BEFORE Star Wars (or A New Hope, as you like), and thus has not yet been killed. Also, since this is (most probably, it seems to me) about the end of the clone wars, why does it even have to mention "the other"? In fact, they could make alot more if they DON'T reveal him...(her?) Jonathan Levine CAIN @ MIT-AI (at least for December...)