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From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: prefix codes
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 17:07:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 17:07:41 1985
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In <16200039@haddock.UUCP>, Jim Campbell writes:
> ... Khan just didn't seem to 
> know enough about the Reliant in order to be aware of this 
> "remote control" property of the starship....

	If Khan weren't so busy memerizing Klingon literature to
impress his crew, he would have known about the remote-control
feature!  He deserved to die for that!

	The first time I read about prefix codes was in Poul Anderson's
"The Rebel Worlds".  In that case, prefix codes were necessary to 
coordinate a fleet's movement from a flagship.  That would imply that
only high ranking officers (i.e. admirals) would need to know what the
codes were.  Single ships would have no use for prefix codes.  M5's
creator, Linstrom (sic?), would not have known of the codes, therefore,
M5 didn't either.  The fact that Spock knows of them is similar to
common users knowing about root: they know what it can do but cannot
do it themselves.

Joe Barone,	{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
Raytheon Co,	Submarine Signal Div., Box 330, Portsmouth, RI  02871