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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Enterprize vs. Gallactica
Message-ID: <338@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 11:54:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 11:54:51 1985
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>From: don@umd5.UUCP
>Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
>Message-ID: <534@umd5.UUCP>
>
>In article <167@omen.UUCP> caf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>>	1.  With a planet buster already available, the Klingons would
>>	not be too interested in Genesis
>
>So what makes you think the Klingons would not appreciate the potential
>for planet-construction that Genesis represents? Klingons need planets
>too...

This point is brought out briefly in the novel (and I think the movie)
version of ST III. Malz, Kruge's aide, mentions how inhospitable the
Klingon homeworld is. Kruge replies with a bit about imagining your wife by
your side, your children at your feet, and the Federation flag flying over
your head. This is when he embarks on getting the secret of Genesis.

By the way, until you work out the Protomatter flaw, Genesis makes a great
weapon, but a rotten planet-builder. (Hmmm... is this an unresolved plot
point that should be worked out in ST IV?)


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