Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site moncol.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!petsd!moncol!john From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: 400 incredibly emotional volcans Message-ID: <180@moncol.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 11:32:43 EST Article-I.D.: moncol.180 Posted: Fri Feb 8 11:32:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 03:12:21 EST References: <188@ihnet.UUCP> Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Lines: 37 >From: eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke) >Message-ID: <188@ihnet.UUCP> > >Our local tv station just showed "Amok Time" (Spock's mating). >It seems, every 7 years, he must return to Volcan. >Now consider "The Immunity Syndrome", and recall the starship Intrepid >containing 400 Volcans. >The ship must constantly be flitting to and from Volcan, >never venturing far from home. >Someone's in heat every 6.5 days (statistical average). >Was the giant cell dangerously close to Volcan? >Or did the intrepid solve its problem by restricting crew members, >accepting only Volcans who "burn" during March xxxx (xxxx constant modulo 7)? >Wouldn't you love to be aboard during that critical month? > An obvious way around the problem would be to staff the ship only with married or "pair-bonded" couples. The problem of having qualified members of both sexes is moot since even Terran ships have co-ed crews. And since Vulcans (correct spelling) normally have less emotion, havig husbands and wives aboard is less likely to impair efficiency as it might on a Terran ship. This should reduce the problem from one of constantly travelling to Vulcan to one of having a few people on "sick call" every day. -- John Ruschmeyer ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john Monmouth College ...!princeton!moncol!john W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 "Everybody knows in the second life, We all come back sooner or later. As anything from a pussy cat, To a man-eating alligator."