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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu)
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Subject: Re: Khan and Klingons
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 12:51:05 EST
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> 	In STII, right before the Reliant ambushes the Enterprise,
> Khan quotes a Klingon proverb:  "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
> or some such.  My question is:  How did Khan come by this proverb?
> His only previous encounter with the 23rd century was with the
> Enterprise 15 years before.  He tells Chekov on Ceti Alpha 5 that
> he has been marooned so I would think that he had no other contact
> with the outside world.  Did his wife start quoting alien proverbs
> before her death or what?!  Did the Reliant have a library file on
> nasty sayings?  When did he have time to read them? :-)  [JOE BARONE]

Actually, all starships have a Stargate/netnews subspace communications
computer feed.  And there is a Klingon UNIX system on that network,
such that net.flame contains a huge number of nasty Klingon witticisms,
often posted by that notorious Klingon commander, K'narndt.  :-)
-- 
Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr