disc@houxz.UUCP () (06/11/84)
>> Why didn't Starfleet use the prefix code to stop Kirk >> from stealing the Enterprise? > Excellent hole. Indeed, was this not the very circumstance the prefix > was designed for ( regaining control of a ship in "hostile" hands )? > Since the prefix code is a communications/computer function, though, > it may have been sabotaged by Uhura and Scott. The most plausible answer, and the most obvious, of course, is that Kirk changed the combination! "He is *quite* intelligent" SJBerry houxz!disc
marc@pyuxn.UUCP (M Schare) (06/17/84)
But it would have played a whole lot better if Scott had said "Aye sir, the prefix codes been changed, per your orders"