Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!Purtill.SIPB@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Purtill.SIPB@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SDIII: TSfS Message-ID: <2074@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 22-May-85 21:06:18 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2074 Posted: Wed May 22 21:06:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 24-May-85 21:26:10 EDT Sender: @topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: Mark Purtill > . How, with Saavik on board, could Kirk have innocently buried > Spock in space without knowing any better? Any of the following reasons will do: 1. Saavik didn't know either, since she was raised Romulan, and only came to Vulcan later. 2. Saavik didn't know Spock "dumped" into McCoy, so she assumed he was gone, and didn't see any point in bringing the matter up, since it would just make Kirk et. al. feel worse. 3. As I recall the novelisation, there was something about Spock figuring that as a half-human, he wouldn't be allowed to contribute his "soul" (I've forgotten the vulcan word used) to the "soul bank" back on Vulcan. Perhapshe told Saavick this and/or she thought so too. > . When the Klingons are cloaked and getting ready to attack the > Enterprise, its distance is reported as being 5000 kilograms(!!) No doubt I should explain this one two. This is due to the revolutionary theory of "Berglundic relativity," which has as a consequence that D=mb^2, so that just as now physicists talk about masses (of elementary particles) in terms of Bev's and Gev's (units of energy), in the twenty-third century, they refer to distances in terms of mass. (:-), in case you hadn't guessed.) Mark ^.-.^ Purtill at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA **Insert favorite disclaimer here** ((")) 2-032 MIT Cambrige MA 02139