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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] <blockquote>"That's as silly as Kirk uttering a line of: 'Notify Command of our situation' Does this line mean there's a USS Command out there in Enterprise's wake and it's the nearest starship? Of course not: it's just a word, not a proper name."</blockquote> Actually, as you used it there, it does seem to be a proper name, short for "Starfleet Command". You even capitalized it. Besides, even acknowledging that "Command" isn't a ship, it's still [i]someone[/i]. You can notify Command, you can notify hedquarters, you can notify the admiral, but you can't notify a discovery. A discovery is an event. It would be like saying "notify the explosion" or "notify the telephone call". "Notify the discovery" only makes sense if "discovery" indicated some person or persons who can be informed about something. If it indicates a ship, the implication is that the crew of the ship are the ones being addressed. The only other explanation would be that Kirk was drunk or something and meant to say "notify [some undisclosed party of] the discovery". Which is likely the original intention, and something went dreadfully wrong somewhere between the writer's brain and Shatner's mouth. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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