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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek IV Rumors
Message-ID: <198@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 10:04:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 10:04:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 06:46:32 EST
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Reply-To: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
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In article <164@motown.UUCP> jmr@motown.UUCP (John M. Ritter) writes:
>
>Well, I heard something like Kirk et. al. zip back in time to mess
>around with Kahn's kind of people...
>
>You know: no superhuman race, no suspended animation, no Seti Alpha 5,
>no Genesis Machine but mostly *NO DESTRUCTION OF THE ENTERPRISE!!*
>
>I wondered how they were going to get it back!

God, I hope not! That also means no Eugenics War and the potential for
serious damage to the fabric of history.

Much simpler is to go back a few weeks (days?) and stop Kahn from getting
off Ceti Alpha 5. The only problem with this scenario is that the key
person is Chekov. Basically, he would have to relive the events of the
first part of TWOK, this time stopping Terrell from talking Carol Marcus
into letting them consider the planet.

That still does not resolve one other problem- keeping the Enterprise from
being scrapped by Star Fleet. It seems unlikely that that was a
spur-of-the-moment decision; rather, it was probably being discussed behind
closed doors for some time.

Personally, I doubt they will monkey with history that way and that the
Enterprise we knew and loved is gone and should be let to rest in peace.
(Now as for a new Enterprise... )


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