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From: alcmist@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Not answering distress signals
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 15:10:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 15:10:26 1985
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One proposed "solution" to the Kobayashi Maru training exercise was
to ignore the distress signal.

Neglecting a distress signal is obviously a violation of regulations,
tradition, and ethics  --
but there is precedent.

In Friday's Child, the Klingons try to lure the Enterprise away from
the planet with faked distress signals.  They succeed in getting 
Scotty to leave orbit - ONCE.  The second time the Klingons tried
that particular trick, Scotty ignored the distress signal, even 
though it was supposedly from a ship known to be in the area!

If hostile forces were in the habit of using spurious distress signals
to decoy starships, I'd expect a policy of not answering distress 
signals from inside the neutral zone (and forbidding civilian ships
to approach it).

Fred Wamsley
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