Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!disc From: disc@houxz.UUCP () Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Hot-wire any starships lately? Message-ID: <845@houxz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 14:00:39 EDT Article-I.D.: houxz.845 Posted: Mon Jun 11 14:00:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 00:49:04 EDT Lines: 16 >> Why didn't Starfleet use the prefix code to stop Kirk >> from stealing the Enterprise? > Excellent hole. Indeed, was this not the very circumstance the prefix > was designed for ( regaining control of a ship in "hostile" hands )? > Since the prefix code is a communications/computer function, though, > it may have been sabotaged by Uhura and Scott. The most plausible answer, and the most obvious, of course, is that Kirk changed the combination! "He is *quite* intelligent" SJBerry houxz!disc