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   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   news:ieljmk$5fl$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > news:iek88h$13f$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   > >   
   > > Enterprise did much the same thing, pulling in races like the Ferengi   
   that   
   > > aren't meant to be known until much later in the established timeline.   
   > > Apparently the lazy writers tried to get around the problem by silly   
   > > things like the Enterprise crew never knowing the name of the race, etc.   
   :-\   
   >   
   > Actually that's the one part where I will part company and say it's might   
   > not be as farfetched as some of the critics say it is.  The thought   
   occured   
   > to me just in this moment, to imagine all the thousands of strangers I've   
   > unknowingly crossed paths with in the course of just a month of living.   
   If   
   > tomorrow I were to get to know someone new, I don't think it would even   
   > register that a few years ago we were both in one of many shoestores in   
   > various towns or cities or burbs in and around the area.  And the galaxy   
   is   
   > a much larger place than a shoestore.   
      
   That could make some sense ... except that everything the Enterprise does   
   would be sent back in reports to HQ (and Vulcan HQ), so would be known by   
   numerous people as well as the Enterprise entire crew. It's also an   
   exploration organisation, so meeting a new race would almost certainly mean   
   they would try to find out more about them, not just forget them until they   
   turn up again 200+ years later.   
      
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