Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!m1b From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: STIII - prefix code (mild spoiler) Message-ID: <472@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 12:46:37 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.472 Posted: Mon Jun 11 12:46:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 00:05:05 EDT Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 17 Perhaps the reason Starfleet did not try to stop the Enterprise using the prefix code is because they did try. In ST: TWoK, Kirk and Co. use this method on the Reliant to lower its shields. I believe it is Spock who has some misgivings about that, stating that Khan may have *changed* the code, continuing that Khan is very clever. Perhaps that is what Kirk did with the Enterprise -- he changed the code. If this were the case, though, I think it should have been made clear in the movie. Joe Barone, {allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5}!rayssd!m1b Raytheon Co, Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI