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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
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 11:32:43 1985
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>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.


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	John Ruschmeyer			...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john
	Monmouth College		   ...!princeton!moncol!john
	W. Long Branch, NJ 07764

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