Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: Destruction of the Enterprise Message-ID: <527@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 21:09:37 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.527 Posted: Tue Jan 1 21:09:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:35:32 EST References: <510@ncoast.UUCP> <24900069@uiucdcs.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 28 Summary: > Article <24900069@uiucdcs.UUCP>, from friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP +---------------- | > Wrong. The ``big bang'' is from "The Deadly Years", *not* "The Corbomite | > Manoeuver". Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion that someone decided | > that something like corbomite might come in handy, developed it, and put | > it in/on the Enterprise's framework when they refitted her... and we | > saw *that* go off in ST:TWOK. Not unlikely. | | Sorry, you're wrong. The corbomite bluff was introduced in "The Corbomite | Maneuver" -- hence the name of the episode. It was resurrected in "The | Deadly Years", just mentioned in a bluff message to Star Fleet; it wasn't | even essential to an understanding of DY to have seem CM and understood the | reference. You got me wrong. "The Deadly Years" referred to a matter/antimatter reaction; "The Corbomite Manoeuver" referred to a hypothetical substance with destructive potential. I *still* think the framework of the Enterprise was treated with something to make it dissolve before the rest of the ship; look at the view of the girders glowing but the hull plate still whole (except at the girders). Anyway, TDY referred to a different kind of event from TCM. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?