Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: ST II and III Message-ID: <392@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 09:57:53 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.392 Posted: Tue Mar 13 09:57:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 07:17:53 EST References: <681@seismo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 >> ... 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