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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Terrell: "He blames you for --" Kirk: "I know what he blames me for." Right. For aborting his dreams of world domination, for stopping him from capturing a starship, for marooning him on an uninhabited planet at the edge of nowhere, with slim odds of survival and none of escape. Plenty of reasons for all this wrath stuff. That dialogue doesn't mean Kirk would know about the recent extra hardships or anything. It suffices that Kirk knows what he did, and who Khan is, and what his delusions and disagreements about his position in the universe are. "We call that second degree murder here in the States...criminally neglegent homicide- minimum." That's what Kirk was doing in the first place, and probably with full authority (even if off the record). He would have been within his rights to up the ante to first degree murder by giving the good old sonic crowbar a final swing when bringing Khan down at Engineering; he'd probably have gotten a medal out of it. "I'm sure someone on [i]Reliant[/i] made a routine background check on the system before deciding it was prime Genesis fodder." Well, they wouldn't have been there unless some records stated "Ceti Alpha V - deserted Class M, potentially suited for harebrained scientific experiments". They couldn't have been flying blind across the galaxy, searching for the one hay in a needlestack. OTOH, they couldn't have been studying well-charted systems. If the entry already said "Ceti Alpha V - deserted Class M, DEFINITELY suited for harebrained scientific experiments", there'd be no point in sending a starship. So most probably they just hopped from poorly charted system to poorly charted system, zeroed in on the desert planet there (with the assumption that it would be the one mentioned in the records) and gave it the once-over, then warped away. It's not as if a planet would carry a label telling it's the fifth from the star; such identity can only be assigned to a planet by charting the [i]entire[/i] star system and ascertaining that there are exactly four pebbles between the target and the star. And the [i]Reliant[/i] would have little incentive to do that. They weren't looking for new life and civilizations, they were looking for desert worlds of exact criteria. Let's remember "The Doomsday Machine". When does Spock notice that half the planets in the star system they themselves charted barely a year ago are missing? When the rubble starts hitting the windshield. What is his next observation? "Oh, Jim, you might like to know that, uh, the scanners show [i]every[/i] star system in these parts in the same state..." Sleeping at the wheel? If Spock does that, then it's probably SOP. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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