XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:36:51 -0800, Tim Bruening   
    wrote:   
      
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   >David Johnston wrote:   
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   >> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:09:37 +1300, Anybody   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >In article , The Merry   
   >> >Piper  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:53:46 GMT, "RuPEDski"    
   >> >> wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> >No. James Bond, Batman etc. existed BEFORE an actor "created" them.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Yes.  For many persons, these characters did not exist until they were   
   >> >> portrayed on the big or small screen.  This point is therefore without   
   >> >> merit.   
   >> >   
   >> >With James Bond you can at least pretend that each new actor is in fact   
   >> >a different agent and "007" is always given the alias "James Bond" in a   
   >> >similar way to the Men in Black having their names changed when they   
   >> >become an agent.   
   >>   
   >> And with Star Trek you can pretend the Klingons always had bumps.   
   >   
   >A 4th season Enterprise episode explained that the Klingons lost their bumps   
   >due to a plague started by a botched Klingon effort to create genetically   
   >enhanced Klingons.   
      
   Except of course that in that episode not every Klingon got the   
   disease and Kirk was unaware that Klingons had ever had bumps.   
      
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