Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!dartvax!merchant From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.comics Subject: Re: Saavik and Pon Farr Message-ID: <1867@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 12:18:52 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.1867 Posted: Sat Jun 16 12:18:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:16:20 EDT References: <23@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 13 { Nice try } Nope. People are refered to as "Mister" and has absolutely nothing to do with sex. It's a coloquialism (That'll teach me to use big werds.) that it is "Mister." "Unit" would be far better. (Look it up! It can refer to a human or an inanimate object! Saves us the problem of figuring out something new when we finally develope artificial intelligence!) They tended to avoid this in the series because many peons would not understand why Uhura was being called "Mister." (She definitely ain't no guy!)