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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Frank: They do not speak solely in twentieth-century English on Trek. If they did, words like "warp drive", "phaser", and "starship" would all refer to nonexistent objects. However, in the Trek universe, these things are quite existent. Or, perhaps this is a better example... Remember the tie Worf referred to the debris of some ship as "flotsam"? Well, these days, "flotsam" specifically refers to debris that is floating on water. If all Trek words mean exactly what they mean today, then Worf must have actually been referring to some ship whose pieces were down on a planet somewhere, not the stuff up in space... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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