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From: howie@cucca.UUCP (Howie Kaye)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: A Private Little War
Message-ID: <168@cucca.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 14:17:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 11 14:17:55 1986
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In article <1777@trwrba.UUCP> mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington) writes:
>Tyree received the flint locks but only after the villagers brutally
>killed his wife.  At that point, he wanted to hunt down  the  people
>responsible for his wife's death.  He did have hate in his eyes.
>
>Kirk just tried to keep the balance of power by supplying  the  hill
>people with flintlocks since the  Klingons  provided  the  villagers
>with the firearms.  That was the reason the Enterprise was there.
>

The enterprise was there, on a scientific expedition.  They were
supposed to avoid all inhabitants -- villagers and hill people.  They
only found out that the klingons were there, aiding the villagers,
after Spock is shot, and Kirk is cured.  McCoy gets a tricorder
reading of one in the villagers armory.  Kirk's supplying of
flintlocks is a later issue altogether.

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