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From: okamoto@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Okamoto)
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Subject: Re: Slaver stasis boxes
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 11:11:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 11:11:08 1985
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> A question : In one of the animated ST episodes, I dimly remember
> Kirk & co coming across a "Slaver stasis box" on a frozen planet 
> which contains various interesting and destructive devices
> which Kirk trys to keep from the Klingons.  Does anyone know
> of any connection between this and Larry Niven's Slaver stasis
> boxes in his Known Space series?

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Yes, this episode ("The Slaver Weapon") was an adaption of Larry
Niven's short story "The Soft Weapon".  This episode is the only
one in which the Kzintis appear in the Star Trek mythos.  The
characters in the Star Trek episode have the following correspondences
to the characters in Niven's story:

	Spock		Nessus, a Pierson's puppeteer
	Sulu		Jason Papondreau
	Uhura		His wife (I don't recall her name exactly)
	Chuft-Captain	Chuft-Captain

I can still remember the picture in the Star Trek episode of what
a Slaver (thrintun according to Kzanol) was supposed to look like.
I didn't stop laughing until the end of the episode.

"No more trouble in my body or my mind,
Gonna live like a king on whatever I find,
Eat all the fruit and throw away the rind,
Yay brother."

Jeff Okamoto
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