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From: ph@wudma.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
Message-ID: <248@wudma.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 22:10:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 22:10:26 1985
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Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, CS Dept. DMA Project
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>>
>>	    Why not try something like the corbamite trick that
>>	    Kirk played on the romulans?  
> 
>    Arggghh!  Kirk didn't play the corbomite (sp!) trick on the Romulans; he 
> played it on the captain of that enormous blinking-light ship who looked
> like a baby.  (I don't remember the race's name, or if they even said.)

	Okay, Kirk first used the corbomite bluff on Balok, captain of
	the First Federation ship in The Corbomite Maneuver.  *However*,
	he *also* used it in The Deadly Years to get some Romulans to
	back off far enough so that the Enterprise could make a break
	for it.
						--pH
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