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Subject: Error! Error! Analize!! - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 00:48:10 EST
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uok!dbiggers    Nov  9 18:48:00 1983

All this discussion about the speed of the Enterprise is pointless.
The show has never been a technological marvel.  I cite one
prominent example:  (by the way, I *know* all the episodes, but 
almost none of the titles, so I'll have to refer by description:
no flames please)

	 "[concerning the sound sensor]... With the computer we can
increase that capability on the order of ONE TO THE FOURTH POWER..."
                --Kirk, on trial for the death of Ben Finny

Also, remember that in the episodes a star ship computer could "pinpoint 
a lit match on the planet surface" but in the second movie, they couldn't
distinguish a "particle of animate matter caught in the matrix" from
Khan and his group of approx. thirty people?

So, let's lay off on the techno-garbage and enjoy the *drama*!! 


David Biggers
[duke!uok!dbiggers]