Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!fritzz From: fritzz@sdccsu3.UUCP (fritzz) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: ISAWITISAWITISAWITISAWIT (+cloaking dev.) Message-ID: <1893@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 18:33:55 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1893 Posted: Sat Jun 2 18:33:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:32:39 EDT Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 25 Subject: ISAWITISAWITISAWITISAWIT Newsgroups: net,startrekI just saw the search for Spock. Boy, what a movie. However, It brings up some questions that were about to die on the net. In particular, the cloaking device. It plays an important role, and apparently Kirk is the only one in all of Starfleet command to expect that anyone might use it. It is detectable by sensors, even if just as a distortion of space around it (but their computer should have been able to analyze it if properly instructed.) Thus one can only conclude that The use of a powerful defense like the cloaking device was not well known to the rest of the fleet. Kirk, of course picks it up right away. Anyway, the fact that the device *was* efectivly used blows away a lot of the arguments recently used on the net. Oh yah, does a vulcan Bird of Prey really only have twelve people? There are a bunch more questions, but I'll wait with those. -- _____________________ "I know the zoo preserves my species, | fritzz the Zebra | gives me food, collects my feces, |_____________________| I can't help it, I miss the past, never again will I see my good old mudbath" (A. Belew)