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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [qb] In Diane Carey's novel [i]Final Frontier[/i] it's suggested that the term was originally "internally metered pulse drive," or "I. M. Pulse Drive" for short. The novel is set before TOS, when Robert April takes the as-yet unnamed, uncommissioned [i]Enterprise[/i] out to rescue some colonists, and already the engineers are referring to it as "impulse" in casual conversation. By TNG likely only a historian would even know it was ever an acronym.[/qb][/QUOTE]I doubt that. People don't just "forget" that things are acronyms. Sure, people in casual conversation might not be aware, but I doubt that engineers wouldn't know that "impulse" used to stand for something. It's not like people have forgotten that "eta" stands for something, and that has to have been around for at least a century. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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