Historical Question

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:18 pm

I know this is going to take up space on the fourm, so the Mod may delete it after I get an answer if need be.

From CL 39, Was Captian Dunn of the Arbela relieved of command after his miserable failure against the Kagan? Or was he given a merit for bravery and cunning? It could be seen as either in the eyes of an admiral who was not relly at the battle. And also, he had armed tractors for drone defnse, but since no drones appeared why did he not use it to anchor the DX and keep it from escaping?

Thanks

Post by **Steve Cole** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:29 pm

We don't know the answers to those questions. Only part of the Air Force tapes have been decoded and translated.

terryoc · Post by **terryoc** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:37 pm

Well, my thinking on why he didn't anchor the Klingon ship is that he may have been concerned that the Klingon was holding back drones. If Arbela anchored the Klingon, the Klink may have launched X-drones into his ship and done significant damage.

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:52 pm

Steve Cole wrote:We don't know the answers to those questions. Only part of the Air Force tapes have been decoded and translated.

Huh, Air Force tapes? What?

Well, my thinking on why he didn't anchor the Klingon ship is that he may have been concerned that the Klingon was holding back drones. If Arbela anchored the Klingon, the Klink may have launched X-drones into his ship and done significant damage.

He obviously wasn't concerned about the condition of his ship anyway, juding by what he did.

Post by **Jean** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:29 pm

Pinecone, part of the "backstory" of ADB is that a bunch of Air Force tapes were found and they had information on them. (This was waaaaay back when and information was stored in all sorts of odd media that folks who are younger than 40 may not even recognize -- people gave computers programming commands on key-punched data cards, for example). That is why I wrote about "The Roche Files" and how I discovered more notes about her trivideos.

All of the tapes have not been translated yet, so that is how we keep finding new ships, more history, and (now that I'm here) more social history.

Got it? Remember this is a deep dark secret, only told to our most loyal of fans. If asked, you know nothing, absolutely nothing ...

Jean

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:07 pm

Piner -

TOS episode Tomorrow Is Yesterday, which in turn led to the data reproduced in the Star Fleet Technical Manual.

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:14 pm

Jean wrote:Pinecone, part of the "backstory" of ADB is that a bunch of Air Force tapes were found and they had information on them. (This was waaaaay back when and information was stored in all sorts of odd media that folks who are younger than 40 may not even recognize -- people gave computers programming commands on key-punched data cards, for example). That is why I wrote about "The Roche Files" and how I discovered more notes about her trivideos.

All of the tapes have not been translated yet, so that is how we keep finding new ships, more history, and (now that I'm here) more social history.

Got it? Remember this is a deep dark secret, only told to our most loyal of fans. If asked, you know nothing, absolutely nothing ...

Jean

You got it Jean

Thanks!
But honestly, that's kind of scary

maybe I'll be on a starship one of these days

.

Piner -

TOS episode Tomorrow Is Yesterday, which in turn led to the data reproduced in the Star Fleet Technical Manual.

Oh, I love that episode. The part where they beam up the guard guy is so hilarious!