[TML] Antihijack Program in action

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 7 Feb 2008 at 12:24, Ken & Juliane Murphy wrote:

>    In a message dated Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:52:41 -0800, 
> Leonard Erickson comments on Gorn measurements provided previously:
> 
> >6 or 7 *foot* I'll buy. 6 or 7 *meters*, no way.
> 
> >6 meters is 20 feet. 
> 
>      Hya Leonard,
>      I remember the big green Gorn well enough from TOS, and the CGI version on that episode of Enterprise sure didn't look like it'd be 6-7m to me *either*, but I could swear the frighteneed blue alien guy said 6-7 METERS when questioned.
>      The more familiar "feet" (and by extension "miles") seems to be a term you don't often encounter in the Star Trek Universe (at least not in later incarnations anyhow)---not as accurate and/or scientific *sounding* as metric measurements, I guess, and ceertianly not a term one would find spilling from the mouth of some alien, afterall. (Speaking flawless English and using the metric system is acceptable for aliens, but using *feet* makes them seem less alien to Americans,maybe? I dunno...).
>      Perhaps a fellow geek (or TMLer, rather) with the episode on disc could check for us? :)
>      Maybe the blue guy meant 6-7m long. But then it didn't look that long either :)

What season and what's the title?

(hint, with that info you can find the episode on Bittorrent or 
eMule)

I suspect it was a writer who didn't stop and think. Way too many 
folks are that way.

In one ongoing story online, an otherwise detail oriented author 
goofed and had a 15 meter diving board at a pool. 

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com