Re: Klingon Question.

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:48:30 -0000, "Ian L." <saltash@btinternet.com> wrote: >I don't subscribe to this group so an e-mail would be appreciated. > >Q. >I remember seeing in an episode of DS9 - them going back in time and meeting >some Klingons in a bar - Worf wouldn't say why they looked different - does >anyone know???? ...as far as the mis-posted Klingon messages are concerned, the most likely explanation - according to Mr. Spock - would be an almost imperceptible instability in the time-space continuum that took place in one of the ancient so-called "Internet backbone routers" (the computer is still investigating the exact location, but he seems to be closing in on a segment near Dallas, Texas). As a result, a single "Internet newsgroup message" (obviously, the Klingons used the same addressing schemes as "we" did) from the old Klingon Internet was put on a "T3 line" (a "high-bandwidth connection used at the end of the 20th century" - thanks, computer!) while, at the same time, roughly 100 messages aimed at a newsgroup called 'comp.databases.informix' vanished from the (human) Internet. Although, officially, no investigation into the matter has been launched yet due to the new cold war between the Confederation and the Klingons, a first deep space gravitational wave probe conducted by the USS Enterprise with a (peace-time) precision of 1000 light years suggests that... - excerpt from a memo by Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise