Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site faust.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!bbnccv!faust!jlp From: jlp@faust.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Khan's Curses in ST II Message-ID: <15600013@faust.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 11:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: faust.15600013 Posted: Thu Sep 5 11:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 05:20:29 EDT References: <596@leadsv.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:leadsv:-59600:faust:15600013:000:411 Nf-From: faust!jlp Sep 5 11:22:00 1985 {} The use of quotes from Paradise Lost is consistent with Space Seed, when, during the trial, Khan asks then Captain Kirk if he is familiar with Milton. Recall Kirk briefing Scotty in the corridor about something along the lines of "better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." The shifting of Ceti Alpha V to such a disastrous orbit essentially created that hell. Jerryl Payne ...!ihnp4!inmet!faust!jlp