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echo: startrek
to: PETER SCHULLER
from: BILL NICHOLS
date: 1997-08-26 14:05:00
subject: Transwarp??

PS> > PS> > Warp 13. In the future, that is :)
PS> > PS>yeah well..  That's just yet another inconsistency. No matter how
PS> > Well, no, not really.   Actually, that one wasn't a YATI at all,
PS> > since that was an alternate *possible* future in the Q-altered
PS> > timeline.
PS>Oh okey. That means it was not neccessarily the same W scale. That's a
PS>completely different thing - yes.
Exactly, yeah. :)  A lot of folks tend to cite that one without
remembering that the whole fershlugginer shootin' match was one
big wild card. :)
PS> > & the former standard then becomes the YATI.  The "O'Brien's rank"
PS> > thing is a good example.  He started off as what was presumably a
PS> > LT (& was even specifically addressed as that on at least one
PS> > occasion). Yet as time wore on it became more & more obvious that
PS>I personally don't remember him being refered to as a Leutainent (did I
PS>spell
PS>that right? :), but it's been a while since I saw season 1 of TNG.
It was in "Where Silence Has Lease" (addressed as "lieutenant" by
Riker), which I *think* may have been Season 2 -- someone with a
photomuhgraphic memory will have to help out on that one. 
PS> > One of these days, like it or not, we may be faced with even more
PS> > basic RETCON regarding W10.  At the moment it can be written off
PS>RETCON? I can't find the print-out of all the acronyms :)
:) RETroactive CONtinuity, a process by which formerly established
stuff is redefined in later episode.  Sort of a "Dunno what you're
talking about -- *we* never said that" approach. ;)
PS>:) I wish they'd take more care to avoid these YATIs, both regarding these
It'd be nice, I do agree.  But with differing writers, not all of
whom actually play off the "same sheet of music," as it were, it's
not as constant as any of us'd like it, I'm afraid. :(  It could
be a whole lot worse, though. :)
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