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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Khan and Klingons
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 23:38:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 23:38:37 1985
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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? :-)
> 
> 	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 read the Enterprise's library computer while he was on the Enterprise
back in Space Seed.  He also has a good memory.
--
"It's Dr. Memory!"             Peter Merchant