Subj : Re: Mammoth Cave - the Star Trek Connection
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : DRGrok
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 00:51:47

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

In article <4324ea21.11408844@news.usenetzone.com>, jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) wrote:
>Mammoth Cave is an extensive system of underground caverns in Kentucky.
>A National Park was created around it, and it is a popular tourist
>attraction.
>
>One portion of the Mammoth Cave system is known as Colossal Cave. There
>is also a Colossal Cave near Tucson, Arizona, but that is not the one
>which became famous as a result of the computer game "Adventure". The
>part of the Mammoth Cave system that Adventure was actually based upon,
>however, is not the Colossal Cave portion per se, but instead the
>portion accessible from the Bedquilt entrance.
>
>This fame has led to me performing some Internet searches related to
>Mammoth Cave, and I have turned up some interesting tidbits.
>
>Before he became a world-famous author, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a very
>short story in his youth about someone who became lost in Mammoth Cave.
>
>On a map of Mammoth Cave I saw on a German site, among many of the areas
>that were given names, was one area called...
>
>Tribble's Trouble
>
>and this map dates from long before the year Star Trek came to the small
>screen.
>
>John Savard
>http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
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I've played Adventure many times but don't recall any place there called 
Tribble's Trouble.  What was it near?

Dr. G.

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