From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: The Pirates of Orion (TAS): my review

Graeme  wrote:
> One of the starships from the series gets a brief mention here. Either
> the Potemkin or the Yorktown (I think it was the Potemkin) carries the
> drug to the freighter.  I'd be interested to know why the Huron was
> named that.  You remember, David Gerrold named Sherman's Planet after
> his girlfriend, so I'd like to think there's a similar story here.
> There's a Huron, CA and there have been a couple of ships named Huron,
> but none particularly famous.

Gerrold's on Facebook; you could always ask him there.

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