From: kevin@csd-d-1.Stanford.EDU (Kevin Ernst Duckworth)
Subject: Let the threads begin!
Originator: kevin@csd-d-1.Stanford.EDU
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organizatoin
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:33:52 GMT


Hey guys and gals, I have a few questions and points and quotes, so
here it goes:


        -slight spoiler for Relics:
can anyone tell me where this Dyson sphere idea comes from
and to whom belongs the name "Dyson"?


	-As for all that talk about Mccoy's famous "I'm a ...  not
a ..."lines, here's a line that I think I heard from the mouth of 
*Kirk* in "Errand of Mercy":
     "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat."
Well, if that doesn't answer a few questions....


	- spoiler for relics:
When Scotty mentions on the 1701 bridge that thing about the first
woman you love, was I the only one who thought that Picard was going
to (or should have) come out and say something in reference to Eline
from "The Inner Light"?  The look on his face seemed to say he was 
thinking about it (oh, there goes the Betazoid side of me again).
Now *that* would have been a good reference to a past episode, one
that I'm sure everybody has been looking for!


   	- Help!  Can somebody tell me what Picard says to that Klingon
captain in some episode (I don't know which, for once) where the Klingon
guy calls Picard a Khadibah (or something insultory) and Picard lets 
loose with some scorching curse that prompts the Klingon to say,
"you curse well"?  Klingon and/or English, if anyone knows what it was.


	- And finally, Jews in Space:  wasn't the Starfleet head honcho
in one of the ST films Jewish?  I believe it was III, and I think I 
recall that it was a producer type person (Harve Bennett, perhaps?)
I seem to recall that there was a discussion on the topic.


	- And now, for my opinion on YE, Sela, and Tasha.
Although it is highly unlikely someone could write a worthy enough plot
and/or story, I see no problem with Tasha being alive.  Sela is obviously
alive.  Tasha had her in this timeline, not the alternative one of the
battle-equipped-E.  Just becacuse Sela said she had been put to death,
doesn't anyone think that her Romulan husband had secret mercy upon her
and sent her off to some prison planet instead?  In this ccase, she is
still alive, albeit old and worn from twenty years in a Romulan hell hole.
Bring her back, guys!  It would be *FANTASTIC* to see some Sela/Tasha
dialogue, since Sela was only a few years old when the attempted 
defection took place, and she never got to confront her mother about it.
Let's hope someone in power is reading this like they were reading
this when I mentioned the fact that a female Q would be an awesome
idea... (I know, conceit, but it's a male thing...)


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