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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More on TREK III (Heavy duty SPOILER - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 16:38:00 EDT
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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?)