From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gene@genek_hates_spammers.com   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   "Ron"  wrote   
   >Full personal dossiers on the following names--   
   >Dr. Thomas Leighton,   
   >Anton Karidian,   
   >Lieutenant Kevin Riley.   
   >And Captain James T. Kirk.   
   >Accomplished. Standing by.   
   >Correlate. Check their past histories.   
   >Report any item,   
   >any past episode or experience   
   >they all have in common.   
      
   Their names were all part of a search conducted in the very recent past (the    
   same day)..   
      
   "Item" is so vague that any database programmer worth his/her salt would    
   make that default to a cross-reference of every piece of data in all four    
   dossiers.  Spock would probably have been given a massive list of    
   commonalities ranging from every word or image that was a match in all four    
   dossiers down to every menu selection that all four of them had ever ordered    
   from automated food servers.  Then he would have to filter the data by    
   giving the computer more qualififying instructions based on his suspicions    
   about Kirk's odd behavior.  Or maybe not, since he seems to be able to read    
   very fast at times.   
      
   GeneK    
      
      
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