Star Trek: The Original Series - 113 - Rihannsu 4 - Honor Blade by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kirk, James T. (Fictitious Character), Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780671042103
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2000-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

"And?' Jim said.

"They were both genuine. But the material is, to put it mildly, explosive. It comes in two different sets, as you will have gathered from the two chips. One set of data purports to be from another Federa-tion operative on ch'Rihan, who I fear we may as-sume has come to what the doctor would doubtless describe as 'a bad end.' "

"And just how can we assume that?" McCoy asked.

"Because I have run a syntactic and stylistic analysis on that entire set of data, Doctor," Spock said. "Even within a single short letter or message, each unique writer has specific telltales, stylistic ten-dencies from sentence structure to punctuation, which can serve as a guide to the genuineness of the text as a whole. In this case, there are alterations to the operative's text, in a style that differs quantifi-ably, to no less than an eighty-four percent certainty, from its main body. The immediate suggestion, to my mind at least, is that the material was taken from this operative under, shall we say, less than optimum circumstances, and altered afterward so that we should accept it as genuine. Mostly the data has to

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