Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxs!okie From: okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: A new ST II question Message-ID: <512@ihuxs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 14:08:10 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxs.512 Posted: Mon Mar 19 14:08:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:53:13 EST References: <137@cosivax.UUCP>, <422@aecom.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 29 As to the prefix code question, let me suggest that only upper command-rank personnel have access to the code. This could follow from the fact that Kirk had Spock track it down. I postulate a very secure computer cache that holds those prefix codes and is only available to those of upper command rand. And, as the *Enterprise* is one of the premier ships of the fleet (or so we're always told), training run or not, she would still be equipped with those codes. Also, consider that Kirk was in charge of fleet deployment at the time of ST:TMP. It would make sense that he would know about such an access system, and could have informed Spock about it. Now, I know that such a computer cache would not be totally secure; but it could be made so secure that the chances of innerrent discovery (or should that be "inerrant"?) would be small. As always, you run the risk that such codes can be learned -- but they can also be learned from the people who man the ships as well as the ship's computer. B.K.Cobb ihnp4!ihuxs!okie