From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: David{at}block.net
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01(Saturday)

On 6/5/2013 12:41 AM, Halmyre wrote:
> On Jun 4, 5:06 pm, anim8rFSK  wrote:
>> In article ,
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>>   "Danie...{at}teranews.com"  wrote:
>>> Lewis wrote:
>>>> In message 
>>>>     Arthur Lipscomb  wrote:
>>>>> On 6/2/2013 10:03 PM, ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/2/2013 10:31 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
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>>>>>>> Most of the other characters were from TOS or
just a random alien.  This
>>>>>>> guy stands out because TOS had no cyborgs like
that on the Enterprise.
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>>>>>> TOS did have an android on the Enterprise in one
episode.  He wore a
>>>>>> Starfleet uniform and everything.
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>>>>>> http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/imudd.htm
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>>>>> Not entirely the same thing.  Androids were clearly
established in TOS,
>>>>> which made Data's claims of uniqueness a little odd. 
The character in
>>>>> the movie is humanoid with cybernetic implants which apparently
>>>>> (according to online sources) have a direct neural
interface with the
>>>>> Enterprise.  He's more Borg than Starfleet and more advance than
>>>>> anything Starfleet should have had during TOS (or even TNG).
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>>>> Different History. Different developments.
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>>> Lewis, I was going to give a similar response to Arthur, up thread,
>>> along the lines of "Different Timeline, so who knows what is
>>> possible!!", but as this is only a shout time
(months/years??) after the
>>> re-boot, is it really likely that there would be a Borg in Starfleet??
>>
>>> Daniel
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>> The history of the universe and basic physics were already completely
>> different in the first movie when Nero first appeared.
>
> But the laws of physics are...erm, unchangeable...

I dunno about that.  The way warp drive works changed between TOS and 
TNG.  And that wasn't even supposed to be a parallel universe.

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