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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST II and III
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 09:57:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 09:57:53 1984
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>>	... Kirk will have to answer for allowing two starships to get shot up
>>	(let alone indirectly causing the death of one of the fleets best
>>	captains)? Also why couldn't a robot have done what spock did in the
>>	radiation flooded engine room?

Doubtful--after all, what else could Kirk have done?  He was caught off guard
and should be reprimanded for that, but that would not have changed the fact
that Khan would have started on his path of vengeance.  (By the way, Reliant
was not a star ship, properly it was a scout ship.)  Which one of Star Fleet's
best captains died in ST3?  Neither Terrell nor Spock fall into that category.
To have a robot do a task you first have to have one programmed to do the task.
That means radiation hardening and a program specific enough to repair damage
resulting from a VERY unusual problem.  This is why machines can't do it alone
in space.

>>	... seems [Saavik] has a long way to go before she rids herself of
>>	her hoomanhalf.

Saavik has no human half.  She's half Vulcan, half Romulan.  Not having been
brought up Vulcan, she feels no need (presently) to suppress her emotional
side.
	Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe