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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: ST IV (MAJOR SPOILER) & when to do the Temporal Tampering
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 22:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 22:07:31 1985
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> Better yet would be to intervene at a point before Kahn takes over the
> Reliant. I hate to admit it, but this could be easily done. If Chekov had
> not been so insistant on looking for something "transplantable" on Ceti
> Alpha V, then he might have just stuck to the original goal of the mission
> (to find a lifeless planet) and ordered the Reliant to move on without
> anyone beaming down.
> John Ruschmeyer ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john	

Or perhaps they would try to take the "easy way" out, and just drop
back a few kilo's of anti-matter, to get rid of the entire problem of
Kahn.  But wait, the Guardian's getting a little rusty, and puts it on
the wrong planet.  Thereby causing it to fragment, shift Ceti Alpha
IV's orbit (Kahn's planet), and thereby the history that we now know.
And making the Federation responsible for the entire gumming up of the
works by Kahn.  It would explain a planet just happening to become
unstable at the time of Kahn just landing - geologically, it is rather
unlikely (actuall, the odds are ... :-)  It seems that Spock would
have noticed an unstable planet - it probably just doesn't occur
overnite.

Please forgive the Dr. Who quote in this group, but paraphrased,
"Time has a great deal of entropy - at best you nudge it a little.  It
takes a being of immense power to change the future" (Pyramids of
Mars, in reference to Sutec, being powerful enough to be on of the
Egyptian Gods among other things.)



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Walt Pesch
AT&T Network Systems
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