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From: nathan@mit-eddie.UUCP (Nathan Glasser)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Romulan proverbs
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Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 14:43:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 13 14:43:53 1983
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Assuming that Khan had mentioned a Romulan proverb, and not a Klingon
proverb, there is no problem with Khan's knowing the proberb. As was
previously mentioned in a net article, in Space Seed, Khan read through the
Enterprise's library. Then someone else objected, saying that the Federation
had little contact with the Romulans before Balance of Terror. Well, if you
will remember your Star Trek history, there had been a war between the
Federation (or maybe just earth) and the Romulans many years before, and there
had been no visual communication between them. This is hardly 'very little
contact', whether or not you might expect proverbs to be exchanged during
a war. I believe this information was mentioned in Balance of Terror.

				Nathan Glasser
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