From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
   Subject: Re: Define "alien"   
      
   On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:18:28 -0700 (PDT), Duggy    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Aug 13, 9:37apm, Akira Norimaki  wrote:   
   >> Duggy wrote:   
   >> > On Aug 12, 10:19 am, ToolPackinMama  wrote:   
   >> >> OK, so, I say in TOS, "alien" means "not of our world".   
   >> >> You?   
   >> > So Kirk in the latest movie, not born on Earth, is by your definition   
   >> > an alien?   
   >>   
   >> Technically, no. He was born in outer space but he's not from outer   
   >> space and he was raised on earth. You may say one human is an alien if   
   >> it's born and raised on another planet. I mean "Marcus Cole" is, to some   
   >> degree, an "alien". I used "Marcus Cole" - from B5 - 'cause I don't have   
   >> similar examples in the ST universe. I'm pretty sure there are though.   
   >   
   >I wouldn't call a human of terran decent alien whether they ever   
   >visited Earth or not.   
      
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