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From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Space: 1999
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 00:25:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 00:25:29 1985
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Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Keywords: 1999
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Summary: 

The thing that most struck me about the early shows of 1999 was the
shoot first and ask questions later philosophy they operated on (My whole
family collectively decided not to watch the later shows).  Whenever
they ran into anything strange their first response seemed to be 
send out some eagles and shoot it down.  This might have been understandable
except for the fact that what ever they sent the eagles against was either
1. totally dead
2. So advanced as to make their eagles look like a tonka truck
(Captain, rather badly constructed space craft using reaction engines
are tickling our sheilds with low powered laser weapons.  Kirk: set 
phasers to stun, we don't want to hurt those primatives)
The only reason the eagles survived was that the superadvanced types
they tried to shoot down usually didn't recognize them as weapons.
-David Sher