weutil@ih1ap.UUCP (David Pope) (08/10/84)
[] 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
lmaher@uokvax.UUCP (08/13/84)
#R:ih1ap:-39000:uokvax:5800031:000:720 uokvax!lmaher Aug 12 22:15:00 1984 The ONLY appearance of the Kzin in Star Trek is the animated episode "The Soft Weapon" which is adapted from Niven's short story of the same name (the Enterprise was originally a Puppeteer and a couple of humans). When FASA published their Star Trek RPG they included as canon all the episodes, the movies, and most of the animateds, but specifically excluded that episode, since Kzin, Slavers, Stasis Fields, etc. open up too large a can of worms. I totally agree with them that Kzin belong in Known Space, NOT Star Trek. Besides, the Kzin *have* a homeworld, and their females aren't sentient - Farrendahl could hardly be Kzin! I hope she shows up again someday... "Speaker to Trekkies" ..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher
jay@smu.UUCP (08/13/84)
#R:ih1ap:-39000:smu:18200017:000:231 smu!jay Aug 13 11:40:00 1984 An animated episode, "The Slaver Weapon," was written by Larry Niven and it concerned His universe. They took virtually everything from that story and stuck it in the Star Trek universe (what else do you do when you buy a story).