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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Galactica is dead meat...
Message-ID: <374@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 16:01:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: moncol.374
Posted: Sun Jun  9 16:01:23 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 14:24:44 EDT
References: <558@umd5.UUCP> <707@ssc-vax.UUCP> <429@leadsv.UUCP> <2801@nsc.UUCP>
Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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Keywords: Kzinti, Niven, Animated episodes

>From: don@umd5.UUCP
>Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
>Message-ID: <558@umd5.UUCP>
>
>In article <2801@nsc.UUCP> nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) writes:
>>     Are these the same Kzinti from Larry Niven's Known Space series?
>>     Was reading some news-groups that I don't normally read and this
>>     aroused my curiosity.
>>
>The SFB Kzinti are loosely based upon the Kzinti in Niven's books. The
>game designers simply needed another alien race , and they settled on
>the Kzinti..

Niven adapted his story "The Soft Weapon" into an animated Trek episode.
This entered them into Star Trek canon and, presumably, prompted the
decision.

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