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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Kobiyashi Maru was a Klingon plot
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 13:35:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 13:35:48 1985
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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)
> 
> {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen
> or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen

***  THIS LINE IS YOUR MESSAGE ***

Since Paramont obviously wanted to sell this picture to more than just 
rabid ST fans they had to make a small concession (sp) to the * normal
paying public* <(;-)><={|
The average movie goer would hardly have the thought of vertical movement
as a means to escape at that point in the movie. Later, after it
is demonstrated is another story.

Jeanete L. Zobjeck
ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie