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Subject: Re: STIII: Excelsior
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 18:24:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 18:24:07 1984
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From:  Alastair Milne <milne@uci-750a>


    Several people have pointed out that New York is the Empire State; 
perhaps "Excelsior" is merely on the seal.  I have the Oxford Universal 
Dictionary's word for it that it's in there somewhere.  (Though "Excelsior 
State Building" does have rather a ring to it, no?)

    However, the point was not geography, but the naming of a ship, for 
which "Excelsior", in its Latin meaning, seems quite appropriate.

    Although I'm glad people are alert to inaccuracies, I hope that this is 
the last I will ever see on this subject.  If anything was ever done to death,
this has been.

    On a subject I prefer: does anybody know why this new warp effect has been
used in the last two movies (the one in which the ship simply accelerates, and
leaves behind a trial of multihued images of itself)?  I thought the 
star-streaking effect of the first movie much more effective, and rather more
likely (as far as any of this can be called "likely").  It certainly gave a
better impression of the sort of speeds the ship would attain with warp
drive.

				A. Milne