From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: More Holes To Plug   
      
   Ron  wrote in   
   news:448e9450-3637-44f3-93c7-6068ffe5e7c8@e21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com:    
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   > Hmmm... Kirk says it took the Horizon's report a hundred years to be   
   > received... That's a hundred light-years from Earth. Hell, that's   
   > pretty far out, and at the time of the Horizon-- and presumably the   
   > NX01 Enterprise-- warp 5 was the maximum. Did the Horizon crew know   
   > that only a few new ships were maxing at warp 5 or so? Maybe, but   
   > whether they did or didn't, it was very improbable another ship would   
   > come tat ar again unless Iotia offered something that couldn't be   
   > found closer to home. The Enterprise wouldn't have been there if   
   > Starfleet hadn't received a century old signal and was curious as to   
   > what happened to the Horizon. So I don't think it too likely the   
   > Horizon crew was expecting follow-ups anytime soon-- if at all. There   
   > wouldn't be any point to a follow-up visit.   
   >    
   > I think more likely, the director had gotten a slick idea and didn't   
   > stop to think it through much the same way in STIII Kahn remembers   
   > meeting Chekov when Chekov wasn't even around--  ;-)   
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   > Ron   
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   Chekov wasn't around on the bridge.  No one stated in the first season that    
   there wasn't a Pavel Chekov on the ship somewhere Khan could have met him.   
      
   Just like no one stated they went back and retrieved Khan's ship but they    
   must have since it was on the planet.   
      
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