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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: USS(?) Enterprise
Message-ID: <144@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 10:11:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 10:11:13 1985
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>From: edtking@uw-june (Ewan David Tempero)
>Message-ID: <2094@uw-june>
>
>... I noticed Kirk refer to the Enterprise as the "USS" Enterprise.
>Now the Lettering on the Enterprise clearly says "NCC" Enterprise so 
>what's the story? And if they are all part of the United Federation
>of Planets why isn't it "UFP" Enterprise? Sorry if this has been 
>done before but ....

The ship is called the U.S.S. Enterprise. U.S.S. stands for "United
Space Ship" (or, alternately "United Star Ship")

The number on the ship is NCC 1701. This stands for "Naval
Construction Code".

The U.F.P. designation would be interesting, but.....

>I was ....ah... interested in the 'destruct sequence' used. Wonder what
>it does, disrupt the mag bottles? Also it seems too easy to duplicate,
>just record the appropiate people saying their thing and....

The problem of voice recording would seem to be a valid consideration.
However, we know from other episodes that the computer is able to
recognize a voice duplication and presumably a recording.

In "Star Trek III: TSFS", the computer does a retina scan to verify identity.
This would be absolute proof as a retina pattern is supposed to be as
sure an identifier as fingerprints.

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	John Ruschmeyer		...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john
	Monmouth College
	W. Long Branch, NJ 07764

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."