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From: Brendan R. Wehrung< >
Subject: Re: Genealogy on 'Star Trek: Voyager'
Date: 7 May 1999 21:08:37 GMT


William Mills () writes:
> 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

This isn't the first time a family photo from the past has been featured
on a Star Trek series. I think a 400-year-old photo was dredged up
(without the need consult a Ferengi database) in an episode of The Next
Generation I'm sure a devoted Trekker will now tell us the episode.

Brendan

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