P.O.'d at P.C. : When plots get just sooooooo stupid!

[Flangepart]

I met Luke Ski! At the Marcon sci-fi con some years age, here in columbus. I bought his first two cd,s there, and This year, three years running, Dr Demento will be at the con! Cool beans! another Filker is Tom Smith, and he's good too. I have all his tapes. Hey, i'm demented....what can i say?

[Law Dog]

All I can say about the whole TNG-cloaking issue is that the treaty must have been incredibly broad in it's definitions of cloaking tech. Remember when Riker's old caotain, who is now an Admiral comes aboard so they can find and salvage the reminents of phasing tech? I'd hardly define that as a cloak. Cloaking tech seems to just bend e-m around the ship rendering it invisible. The phase tech seemed to render a ship intangible. Perhaps it made the ship invisible too, but it's not the same thing. I would have told the Romulans to stick their pointy ears up their collective asses, because it doesn't violate the cloaking agreement. What the hell else did the treaty tell the Feds they couldn't do? Could they not paint their ships with radiation absorbing paint that would render them hard to locate? How about holographic cloaks that make the ships look like something else? Did the Romulans use Ferengi lawyers to negotiate this treaty to be so damned broad?

[Funk, E.]

As I recall the original treaty was the direct result of a conflict between the Federation and the Klingons in the original series. The Organian's imposed it when Kirk and Spock were stranded on their planet. I forget the title of the episode. Anyway the point being the Romulan's were not directly involved. The whole treaty was very amorphously defined in the show though I think (don't quote me on this) There is a copy of the treaty in the first Star Trek Technical Manual.