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From: tim@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can"t do that
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Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 13:31:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  3 13:31:50 1983
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    The episode "Day of the Dove" violated more than one of the
established facts about Star Trek -- in addition to the transporter
thing, it had female Klingon officers.  It was establisheds previously
that Klingons were extreme sexists who saw female Klingons as
property.  Either this was some sort of half-baked feminism (even the
bad guys can't be sexists anymore), or the writer got Klingons
confused with Romulans.  This episode was from the third season,
meaning no Gene Roddenberry and no Dorothy Fonatana, so like all the
other third season episodes it stank.

    About Larry Niven: The abundance of handy gizmos did contribute to
his decision to stop writing stories set in Known Space, but a larger
reason is that it is impossible to write any interesting story past a
certain time in that system.  The luck gene encouraged by the
birthright lotteries takes all the fun out of it, as evidenced by the
story "Safe at Any Speed".  People are too lucky to have any
challenges.  Of course, who knows what happens when the core explosion
reaches Known Space, full of these incredibly lucky humans?

    Chaosium Games on the west coast is coming out with a "Ringworld"
role-playing game later this year.  Like most of Chaosium's role-
playing games, it will be based on the versatile "Basic Role-Playing"
system.  Chaosium products are always of very high quality; I am
waiting eagerly for the game.

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