Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!vecpyr!lll-lcc!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: Romulans/Klingons Message-ID: <1311@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:01:58 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1311 Posted: Thu Nov 7 04:01:58 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:21:44 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 24 > From: ucdavis!ccrdave (Lord Kahless) >> Personally, I think the sieries authors didn't know the difference >> between Romulans and Klingons. > > Kirk sure doesn't. In his opening lines in II, he says that Klingons > never take prisoners. > [...] > 2) The incident was in Romulan space. Why bring Klingons into the > picture? Why do you say that the Kobayashi Maru scenario takes place in Romulan space? Is it perhaps because they make reference to entering "the Neutral Zone"? Well, there is a Neutral Zone between the Federation and the Klingon Empire as well, you know. One assumes that the bridge crew would have an idea about whether they were near Romulan space or Klingon space so that specifying which Neutral Zone they're approaching is unnecessary. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM