bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (06/19/85)
Expires: Quoted from <342@petfe.UUCP> ["Spelling characters' names!"], by evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)... +--------------- | Boy, for a bunch of people who claim to know so much about Star Trek, I | am really amazed/appalled at how often simple things like major characters' | names are misspelled. Let's try a spelling lesson: | | DeForest Kelly played Dr. Leonard McCoy (not Kelley, and not Deforrest) -----------^ Spelling. ^ ------------------------------------------------+ Hate to tell you, but it IS "DeForest Kelley"", with the second E. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery, Unix Consultant -- 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa; ncoast!bsa@case.csnet; +1 216 524 1416; 74106,1032 ========================> Trekkies have Warped minds. <=======================
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (12/06/85)
Expires: Quoted from <241@kvue.UUCP> ["Re: Shirts and Insignia (some :^), I could't help it)"], by dunn@kvue.UUCP (Ray Dunn)... +--------------- | Therefore, the reason that we see STARFLEET personnel in many | of the movies wearing the ENTERPRISE symbol, an A with a circle | around it, is because when the ENTERPRISE, the only remaining ship | of the CONSTITUTION class ships, came back to EARTH for refitting the | "powers that be" in the STARFLEET HIGH COUNCIL decided to do away | with the individual ship insignias and use just the ENTERPRISE | insignia as a general logo for representing the entire fleet. +--------------- "The new humans among Earth's population had become increasingly critical of Starfleet's cost, of Starfleet's aims, and of its value. Admiral Nogura could not avoid seeing immediately the value of a living symbol, a carefully designed hero figure who could awe the impressionable and confront the critics with actual experiences out there... (Footnote: ...the Enterprise was the only vessel to successfully complete its five-year mission....)" -- Gene Roddenberry, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE [novelisation] Given this, a minor second step in impressing everyone with Starfleet would be to adopt the Enterprise's insignia for *everyone*, as a reminder of what Starfleet had been able to do. -- Lord Charteris (thurb) ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNet (ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA) ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery (..ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St., Mentor, OH 44060 (I moved) --Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 -- MCI MAIL BALLBERY (WARNING: I am only a part-time denizen...)