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From: skst@browngr.UUCP (Stefan K. S. Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Khan and Klingons
Message-ID: <10166@browngr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 18:28:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  7 18:28:20 1985
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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


obviously, he learned the proverb when he was rapidly scanning
the Enterprise's library tapes. Remember when Kirk visited him
in sickbay?

Stefan Tucker
Brown University