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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Khan and Klingons
Message-ID: <1215@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 15:41:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 15:41:25 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Apr-85 02:09:11 EST
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <683@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP writes:
>
>	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? :-)
>
>	Any thoughts on this (or does anyone care)?
>
>
>Joe Barone,		{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
>Raytheon Co,		 Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI  02871

he had time when he was studying up on the enterprise in sick bay.
since we don't know how fast he could read, he could have read the
entire section on klingon myths, legends, and history, as well as caught
up on 200+ years of gossip :-).

Herb Chong...

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