eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke) (02/05/85)
< a touch of emotions > Our local tv station just showed "Amok Time" (Spock's mating). It seems, every 7 years, he must return to Volcan. Now consider "The Immunity Syndrome", and recall the starship Intrepid containing 400 Volcans. The ship must constantly be flitting to and from Volcan, never venturing far from home. Someone's in heat every 6.5 days (statistical average). Was the giant cell dangerously close to Volcan? Or did the intrepid solve its problem by restricting crew members, accepting only Volcans who "burn" during March xxxx (xxxx constant modulo 7)? Wouldn't you love to be aboard during that critical month? -- Karl Dahlke ihnp4!ihnet!eklhad
mike@smu.UUCP (02/07/85)
Vulcans. Mike McNally
jlc@afinitc.UUCP (Jerry Collins) (02/07/85)
[line eating bugs are illogical.] Nobody ever said that the Vulcans were all male. What is to keep them from having family units on board. Also, are all Vulcans bonded at childhood, and even if so, do they still suffer from mating urges if their mates are dead. Surely in a whole world one could find 400 Vulcans to man the ship. BTW, wasn't the Vulcan ship (forgot the name, sorry) more an scientific study ship than a normal heavy cruiser. This would increase the possibilities for family units. Gerald L. Collins [...!ihnp4!wucs!afinitc!jlc]
john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (02/08/85)
>From: eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke) >Message-ID: <188@ihnet.UUCP> > >Our local tv station just showed "Amok Time" (Spock's mating). >It seems, every 7 years, he must return to Volcan. >Now consider "The Immunity Syndrome", and recall the starship Intrepid >containing 400 Volcans. >The ship must constantly be flitting to and from Volcan, >never venturing far from home. >Someone's in heat every 6.5 days (statistical average). >Was the giant cell dangerously close to Volcan? >Or did the intrepid solve its problem by restricting crew members, >accepting only Volcans who "burn" during March xxxx (xxxx constant modulo 7)? >Wouldn't you love to be aboard during that critical month? > An obvious way around the problem would be to staff the ship only with married or "pair-bonded" couples. The problem of having qualified members of both sexes is moot since even Terran ships have co-ed crews. And since Vulcans (correct spelling) normally have less emotion, havig husbands and wives aboard is less likely to impair efficiency as it might on a Terran ship. This should reduce the problem from one of constantly travelling to Vulcan to one of having a few people on "sick call" every day. -- John Ruschmeyer ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john Monmouth College ...!princeton!moncol!john W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 "Everybody knows in the second life, We all come back sooner or later. As anything from a pussy cat, To a man-eating alligator."