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From: ewan@uw-june (Ewan Tempero)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: New discussion
Message-ID: <353@uw-june>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 19:39:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 19:39:03 1985
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Time for something new to talk about. I was watching an episode I have
*never* seen before the other day ( I come from a ST deprived nation )
along with a friend who also hadn't seen it ( he's american so has no
excuse ) and at some stage the Enterprize was dead as usual ( this was
Elaan of Troyius by the way ) and a comment along the lines of
"Klingon vessel approaching at better than warp 6" ( this isn't an
exact quote ). About a minute later the Klingon actually arrived and
proceed to pound poor old number 4 shield again. My friend commented
that is must be pretty fancy sensors that can detect a ship, moving
at that speed at that *distance*. Think about it. Warp 6 is
somethink like 3^6 lightyears/second or some such....anyway *real*
fast and if it took a minute to arrive, how far away was it when it
was first detected?! Add to that some of the other neat things the
ST-universe sensors can do...detect lifeforms, numbers and species
of, detect minerals ( not find Kirk just about every episode :-)

What could these things be doing? The only thing we have available
these days is radar....
-- 
            Ewan

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Ewan Tempero                                      "Oh no, not again"
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Please check all nuclear arms at the door.