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echo: startrek
to: EUGENE TANG
from: PAUL ANDINACH
date: 1997-08-17 10:12:00
subject: Re: Old Klingons

 -=> Quoting EUGENE TANG to PAUL ANDINACH <=-
 ET> TWT? I have no idea.
"Trouble with Tribbles" - episode title
 ET> FoP? I assume that's the United Federation of Planets, commonly
 ET> acronymed as "UFP", right? 
Right. I tend to think of it as just the Federation of Planets, hence the 
different acronym.
 >The TOC Enterprise had a mainly human crew because the makers assumed that,
 >being an Earth ship, it would have an Earth crew. The Enterprise gained
 ET> TOC? Table of Contents!?!?
TOS - The Original Series. Typing error.
 ET> Earth crew? Spock isn't exactly completely Earth stock 
 
Spock is a special case (among other things, his makeup wasn't too difficult 
to do week after week ).
 
 >Klingons look different, but I don't have much hope, because there's also a
 >DS9
 >episode where some of the best-known TOS Klingons reappear - in the new
 >makeup.
 ET> It's not much of an explanation 
I recently got a message from Jay P. Hailey, who apparently has seen the 
episode in question. I quote:
 JPH> The DS9 explanation(paraphrased) Worf:   "We don't discuss it with
 JPH> outsiders!"
 JPH>
 JPH> They punted.  What else could they do?  Any definite answer would make
 JPH> *someone* angry!
Paul
... 90% of the time I'm right, so why worry about the other 3%?
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