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

James Craine wrote:
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> John Baker wrote:
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>> In article <550-451FE1B1-6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  Squibnick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (The Emmerdale Iron Man) wrote:
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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? 
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>> Remember Khan ruled Earth in a time when we were barely space-capable, 
>> much less having a Starfleet with a rule book and so forth. Yeah, he 
>> could have made the assumption easily, but it just didn't occur to him 
>> - especially in mind of the glee he was feeling at (a) having just 
>> nicked the Genesis device and (b) having just buried Kirk under a 
>> couple of miles of dirt and rock. Or so he thought.
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> So why didn't we see him in 'Enterprise'?
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IIRC, the Botany Bay was launched in 1996, or 1999--many years before 
Enterprise is set.