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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Spoars...A Medical Breakthrough
Message-ID: <24900129@uiucdcs>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 16:27:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 16:27:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Mar 16 15:27:00 1986


> The spoars seemed like such a good way of curing people.  If one voluntarily

It's spelled "spores".

> permits himself to become influenced by the spoars, the spoars will cure
> him of every disease.  Then someone could start a brawl with the patient
> or insult his family or mother and the spoars would be gone, but as McCoy
> said, the colonists were in perfect health--a fringe benefit left over by
> the spoars!  Well, okay, it's not real, I keep forgetting, but you'd think
> McCoy would realize this.  

One of the things that always bothered me about Star Trek is that they
discovered many such useful things  (a drink that makes people move faster
than light, a way to turn people into VERY powerful telekinetics) which
are completely ignored once the story is over. If they kept all this stuff
they would have had a ship full of superheroes. Of course, by the third
season, everything would have been so easy for the crew that the show
would be pretty boring to watch ("Do you want to telekinetically destroy
the 4000 attacking klingon ships, Captain, or shall I?", "The engines
have been completely destroyed, Captain. It'll take at least 12 milliseconds
to rebuild them by hand.")

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

"I'm sorry, sir. According to your identification you're not even born
 yet. Come back in 500 years."