From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: philnblanc@comcast.net   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   On 5/10/2011 7:37 PM, GeneK wrote:   
   > On May 10, 3:25 pm, Ron  wrote:   
   >> The "Affirmatave" was just the computer's  acknowledgement  of   
   >> Spock's instructions; not an answer to a question. This version of the   
   >> Enterprise computer is not intuitive; it will accept directions but   
   >> not offer anything else It won't correct erroneous data.   
   >   
   > Yes, I speculated on that possibility previously.  But either way, the   
   > computer wouldn't have have to correct any erroneous data or make any   
   > intuitive connections if it was programmed to do truly all-inclusive   
   > searches.  What the four people Spock asked it about had in common was   
   > that their names were all associated with Kirk's last database inquiry   
      
   ::highfive!::   
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