Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-dcd!jack From: jack@hp-dcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <1204@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 03:36:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1204 Posted: Wed Jun 22 03:36:53 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jun-83 20:42:49 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 13 #R:sdccsu3:0:hp-dcd:26500004:37777777600:385 hp-dcd!jack Jun 20 12:00:00 1983 Nobody said it was a *parallel* universe (at least I won't). It is instead an *intersecting* universe, with a different past and a different future, but similar at this one point. The transporter rift linked the two most similar universes together. Think of two lines on a cartesian plane with different slopes that intersect at a single point. -Jack "Mr. Metaphysics" Applin IV