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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE]Mind you, Khan and the rest of the "Augments" were supposed to be as intelligent as they they were strong, so it's not much of a leap that they made advances ... that were either lost in the war or classified and intentionally buried by the various governments that defeated them.[/QUOTE]Possible, yes. But it was no secret to Kirk or Spock that Earthlings would be flying around their star system in cryogenics-equipped ships in the early 1990s; and it in no way surprised McGivers that she found solid footing after beaming over to the [i]Botany Bay[/i]. So Khan and his mad scientists may have invented cryogenics, artificial gravity and interplanetary propulsion - but they also appear to have sold those to the highest bidder, who then sold them forward, until all the inventions made it into history books. Alternately, Khan's cohorts improved existing technologies enough to allow interstellar flight, but not so much that they would be unrecognizable for 1990s tech. I rather wonder if Khan's ship was even theoretically capable of founding an offworld colony. It might rather be that Khan simply did the best he could to get away from Earth for a while, but lacked the resources to mount a complete colonization mission. Heck, he probably planned on spending 50 years in cold sleep and then returning to Earth to start over - but the steering system jammed... Okay, Earth in the 1990s might well have been planning interstellar colonization, and might even have had some hardware suited for that. Perhaps it was already known that there would be Class M planets galore, just waiting to be settled. However, Rain Robinson's excitement over the possible space aliens suggests that those 1990s people were not yet QUITE convinced that there would be life of any sort outside Earth. Would a colony on a non-M planet have stood a chance? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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