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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Enterprise vs. Galactica
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 23:09:57 EDT
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In article <388@myriasb.UUCP> ggc@myriasb.UUCP (Gilles Chartrand) writes:
>> Enterprise has warp drive and all the power it needs, and the Galactica can 
>> only attain lightspeed and constantly needs fuel, the Enterprise would win.
>	It seems an invalid assumption to state that the Galactica can
>only attain light speed.  If this were the case it would have taken
>many centuries to encounter all the planets that it did in the movie
>and TV show.  I know that the movie mentioned "light speed" but he
>could have been meening something like "enter_super_drive_that_
>exeeds_light_speed_by_a_facter_of_10".  Somethink like Kirk saying
>"Warp speed Mr. Sulu".

It seems funny to take any even semi-technical term in Galactica with
any sense of seriousness or literalness.  "Enemy 23 microns and closing",
for example, or the use of "micron" as a unit of time in the same episode
(the pilot; the only thing of it I ever watched).  The Enterprise would
win because the get their science right at least 10% of the time.

		Ken Arnold