Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: More on TREK III (Heavy duty SPOILER - (nf) Message-ID: <24900043@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 16:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900043 Posted: Sun Jun 10 16:38:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 06:31:24 EDT References: <1107@decwrl.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:decwrl:-110700:uiucdcs:24900043:000:711 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Jun 10 15:38:00 1984 #R:decwrl:-110700:uiucdcs:24900043:000:711 uiucdcs!friedman Jun 10 15:38:00 1984 Re. the whole "core-dump" business: The problem is in the sentence: "Then the Vulcan version of the AMA gets together and transfers the katra back to the body." First, the lady pointed out that the technique used on Spock was rarely used, had not in fact been used for ages. Second, in Sarek's conversation with Kirk on Earth, it is clearly implied that the katra is to be stored somehow; just how, and to what purpose, is left unstated, but resurrection is clearly not expected. It sounded to me like the corpse and the katra are both to have been stored, perhaps symbolically together. (On the other hand, there must be LOTS of deceased Vulcans; how much storage space could they have on that mountain?)