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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Spores...A Medical Breakthrough
Message-ID: <1247@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 20:03:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 20:03:01 1986
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Reply-To: showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore)
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In article <24900129@uiucdcs> mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>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. 

 Didn't these thing usually have pretty major limitations and/or side-effects?
The super-speed potion drinker would have to be very careful to avoid cutting
himself, and the telekinesis-producing substance was only found on one planet.

 I don't think the original idea in this discussion (using the spores as a 
generic curative) is very viable.  How do you keep the person who's supposed
to start the fight from accidentally getting "spored" himself?

"This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in
in crayon"
"The man didn't have the right form."
-- 
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