[TML] Antihijack Program in action

[Garry Ward]

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From: <shadow at shadowgard.com>
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Subject: Re: [TML] Antihijack Program in action


> 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.

Would seem to imply that the measuring system the writer is most familliar 
with is non metric.

I've encountered a few folks who would try to 'speak metric' while obviously 
thinking in feet and inches.

Garry
>
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