Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxle.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!otto From: otto@whuxle.UUCP (George V.E. Otto) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: The changling Message-ID: <458@whuxle.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 20:11:39 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxle.458 Posted: Thu Jun 21 20:11:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:03:27 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany Lines: 12 uok!dwhitney does not have his or her facts correct. In "The Changling," the NOMAD does not collide with a meteorite. Instead, it collides with another, alien space probe called TAN RUE. TAN RUE's mission was to collect and sterilize soil samples. NOMAD's was to search out life forms. They repaired themselves and combined powers and missions. The resulting mission was "to search out and sterilize imperfect life forms." George Otto AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany ------------------------