boyajian@dec-akov68.UUCP (06/10/84)
> The time between STTMP and ST-TWOK is supposed to be about 15 years, > Brandon Allbery Not quite. Kirk says in TWOK that he hasn't seen Khan in 15 years. That means it is 15 years between the first season of the *tv show* and TWOK. Since we don't know how long the *Enterprise* had been around before the first season (remember her first Captain was Pike, so the ship might have been on a "five-year mission" before Kirk ever got ahold of her. Twenty years old seems right to me. > 5. Of course, Sulu has to land the ship instead of everyone just beaming > down. Would you risk your neck (and the relative location of same) on > the chance that the crew can figure out how to *correctly* operate the > Klingon transporter? I'm sure the Klingon prisoner would be eager to > help... > Ron Wanttaja I can just hear the dialogue now... Kirk: "Tell, you what, JhoeBloe, show us how to operate this transporter, and I promise we'll kill you." Klingon: "Ok, but no funny stuff this time!" > What really caught my eye, however, was the true source of this item. It is > copyrighted 1984 by Paramount Pictures! > George Otto Well, yeah, of course it is. Anything that is licensed for publication as a STAR TREK item, regardless of who does it, is copyrighted by Paramount Pictures. Any- one *not* putting a copyright notice on such an item is open to a copyright in- fringement lawsuit. That doesn't make it an "official" part of the STAR TREK canon. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA