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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Kobiyashi Maru was a Klingon plot
Message-ID: <419@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 19:53:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 19:53:49 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <626@ssc-vax.UUCP> wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) writes:
>
>I can't believe that three Klingon cruisers would have been able to ambush
>and trap the ship... after all, we are talking about three-dimentional
>space, here.  A "High speed flyby" trajectory course could have been
>implemented, that would have brought the KM within sensor range yet allowed
>Enterprise to veer off back to friendly space when the Klingons were
>detected, or allowed a course change to meet the KM had space been clear.
>
	You are essentially correct, since three points(ships) only
define a plane. The correct number for the ambush is FOUR ships,
so that they can englobe the E in a tetrahedron and prevent escape
by covering all exit routes. This is in fact the number used in the
book, but for some reason they changed it for the movie.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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