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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Speed of the Enterprise Again
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Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 17:58:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 17:58:59 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 05:02:27 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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In an episode of Star Trek shown this weekend on channel 32 (WFLD)
here in Chicago, there was an inconsistency regarding the speed
of the Enterprise.

This episode was the one with the Enterprise transporting the
Medusan ambassador (The Medusans are a race that the mere viewing
of their bodies causes insanity to humans).  When Larry Marvik
is exposed to the Medusan ambassador and subsequently becomes
insane, he goes to Engineering and takes control of the Enterprise
using the Auxiliary controls.  On the bridge, this is noticed
by Sulu and Chekhov.  Sulu says "Captain, I don't believe it,
but we are travelling at Warp 8.5 and still rising!".  Later
when the Enterprise is lost beyond the edge of the Galaxy (I
don't understand why this would happen), Spock , in his analysis
of the situation, says that the Enterprise entered a space-time
continuum when its velocity exceeded Warp 9.5.  How did Larry
Marvik manage to get the Enterprise to move so fast????

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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