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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <689f8713-1e60-48a2-a70a-89608c843c35@k1g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,   
   trag   wrote:   
   >On Jul 8, 4:24 am, Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> In article , pullo...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >> >"Tim Bruening"  wrote:   
   >> >> How was it that they had the technical expertise to operate the   
   >spaceship,   
   >> >> yet have guns less advanced than those of Earth?   
   >>   
   >> > It wasn't meant to be taken that seriously. The story was more a bit of   
   >> >whimsy along the lines of: 'What if the technical kludge that permitted   
   >> >space travel was so simple that even a musket era technology could manage   
   >> >it.' It was just dumb luck that humans hadn't stumbled on it.   
   >>   
   >> An idea that was thoroughly covered in Star Trek: Voyager.   
   >   
   >It was thoroughly covered in various written stories long before   
   >Voyager stumbled into the concept.   
      
   And the story referenced by pullo is, of course, Turtledove's   
   "The Road Not Taken."   
      
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
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