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From: rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe)
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Subject: Re: Re: Star Trek IV Rumors
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Date: Mon, 31-Mar-86 08:56:48 EST
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> >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!!*
> 
> God, I hope not! That also means no Eugenics War and the potential for
> serious damage to the fabric of history.

Absolutely.  But here's another possibility:  go back in time with the Klingon
scout ship, after Khan and his people have gone into suspended animation.  Blow
the Botany Bay out of space ("We are Klingons!") and go forward in time.  Then
(1) Enterprise would never have encountered Botany Bay, so that none of the
havoc caused by Khan and crew would have happened, (2) this would restore Lt.
McGivers to the Enterprise crew [who cares?], and (3) Reliant never would have
found Khan and survivors on Ceti Alpha V.  Of course, that probably means that
the Federation would have tested Genesis in a controlled environment (that
planet), no one would die testing it, and they would then discard Genesis when
the experiment proves it has some major flaws.  Basically, none of the events
from ST2 and ST3 would have happened.

> 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.

Partly because she was so beat up after battling Khan.

> 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... )
> -- 
> Name:		John Ruschmeyer

You're probably right.
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Roger Noe			ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe