Re: [OT] The "genetically superior intellect", indeed!

"The Emmerdale Iron Man" <Squibnick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>I was thinking about something in wrath of Khan that has always bugged
> me. When khan is monitoring kirk and spocks conversation between the
> enterprise and the genesis cave, and spock is giving kirk repair time
> estimates and says "If we go by the book captain, hours would seem like
> days". Spock's inflection practically tells that they are talking in
> code. He explains it to Kirk over the open channel, for christ's sake!
> Kirk and Spock are always going on about what a genius khan is, and he
> was supposed to be a big general/ ruler back on Earth. Couldn't he
> figure out that Kirk and Spock would have some kind of protected
> communication mode or code? Kind of obvious and short sighted for such a
> "genius", don't you think?

Not really.  Considering this is how the script was written.  Bad guy
makes 
bad decisions, good guy makes good decisions.  Good guy wins.  That's a 
wrap, people!