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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I thought there was no direct indication that Ares 4 was the first Earth manned ship to reach Mars. Dozens of ships could have performed that feat earlier, say, in the 1990s already. Ares 4 simply was the one made famous by the incredible disappearing act. There's an Okudagram about the Charybdis in "ST: The Continuing Mission", listing some of the experiments run aboard (an early USAF shield device among others). The disappearance is described as "drive system anomaly, loss of telemetry", and a follow-up mission is mentioned as getting "negative response", whatever that means.. I'm not sure where the Okudagram would have been used, since none are clearly shown in "The Royale". Perhaps it was on Data's PADD or something. (Interestingly, Geordi's screen in that episode says that the hellish planet is a "Class C" world - a fact the Encyclopedias fail to mention) The Mariposa could have had warp two in the TOS scale and would still have required decades of travel time to get to a sector that doesn't immediately adjoin sector 001. And this Ficus sector was supposed to be relatively unexplored. 50 years at sublight shouldn't take you to a place that remains "unexplored" or even "rarely visited" in the 2360s. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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