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From: William Mills< >
Subject: Re: Genealogy on 'Star Trek: Voyager'
Date: 7 May 1999 11:32:36 -0700


In article <>,
John Pimentel <> wrote:
>In article <> writes:
>...
>>captain. However, frustrated by the lack of a family history,
>>she has no choice but to embark on a good old-fashioned ancestor
>>search through "birth certificates, death certificates, marriage
>>licenses, tax records, old newspapers," etc. (which, apparently,
>>all happen to be stored in the ship's computer banks!).
>
>Yes, amazing the entire history was in the ship's computer and all this
>time she somehow did not know it was there, including the picture of
>her 12th great grandmother and her grandchildren. Isn't technology
>just so wonderful?

It is consistent with the Star Trek universe -- starship databases
contain essentially all historic human knowledge. The story did a
good job in showing that even with all surviving records available in
searchable digital form, you still have to look at all sorts of
obscure documents to piece together an ancestor's life.

Bill

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