mfc@hp-pcd.UUCP (08/08/84)
Maybe I'm passing on information that you already know, but the animated ST episode 'The Slaver Weapon' is based on a Larry Niven story entitled 'The Soft Weapon'. It's a part of one of his anthologies, either 'Tales from Known Space' or 'Neutron Star' (I forget which). The comment that Nessus makes in 'Ringworld' is related to that pre- vious incident. "What is the frequency of meteor strikes on this planet, Louis?" Mark Cook HP-PCD Corvallis, OR
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (08/14/84)
> How did the Kzinti migrate to the Federation of Planets > universe from Larry Niven's Ringworld universe. Are they only > in the animated version? > > David L. Pope > Mail--> ihnp4!nwuxc!random Second question first: yes, they are only in the animated version. As to how they "migrated", it was easy. Niven himself wrote a script for the animated show that was an adaptation of his Known Space story "The Soft Weapon" (which is in his collection NEUTRON STAR). It was amusing to see Spock take the place of Nessus. Also, other animated episodes made reference to the Kzinti. In one of the STAR TREK LOG books (which adapt the animated episodes), I think it was #5, Alan Dean Foster mentions that the Caitians (of which the alternate communications officer, Lt. M'Hress, is one) are another branch of the same race that produced the Kzinti, a la the Vulcans and the Romulans. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) (08/17/84)
[The world is a Klein bottle]
I hope Larry realizes how confusing he's made things. I first heard of the
Kzinti from the animated ST "Slaver Weapon"; then, a few years later, I read
Ringworld where he has Nessus (the same one) telling Speaker-To-Animals & his
pals that he once kicked in the ribs of Chuft-Captain over in the Beta Lyrae
area... maybe the nova twisted space and time to such an extent that the two
events overlapped?
--bsa
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