rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (06/05/84)
From Spaf: "But why did he remember lines he spoke to Kirk AFTER he had 'core dumped' into McCoy's brain?" Well, McCoy was there when he said them. Looks like the old "continuous incremental backup trick" to me. (BTW, anyone want to get within a couple orders of magnitude of the baud rate on that dump?) -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh
julian@osu-dbs.UUCP (Julian Gomez) (06/06/84)
How about this: Spock said those lines because they are the logical thing to say in that situation. After having his mind restored and beginning to remember what had happened, he said them to Kirk again to see if his new incarnation was correctly remembering data. So rather than it being a repetition of things he said after his "core dump", he was postulating a situation and observing the responses to acquire more data to help himself recover. Nobody uses core anymore. They probably don't in Starfleet either. :->
bukys@rochester.UUCP (Liudvikas Bukys) (06/08/84)
The thing Sarek said to Kirk about "this means that all his experiences have been lost" or some such suggests that, in the normal case, the ceremony on Vulcan would have the effect of merging the deceased's experience into some sort of group memory or mind.
jrb@wdl1.UUCP (06/08/84)
Nf-From: wdl1!jrb Jun 8 09:35:00 1984 Perhaps the Vulcans practice a form of ancestor worship (in which the ancestors are ACTUALLY still present). The Katra is put in a jar or something and it can be consulted on various points. John R Blaker UUCP: ...!fortune!wdl1!jrb ARPA: jrb@FORD-WDL1 and blaker@FORD-WDL2