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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
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Summary: 

> Article <24900069@uiucdcs.UUCP>, from friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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| > 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.

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