Subj : Re: Nova Earth Colony Episode Spoiler Qs
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,rec.arts.startrek.current
From : Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 21:13:06

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

In article <432C9C4A.EC1B398D@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us>,
 Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

> Radiation from an asteroid strike killed every colonist over 4 and drove
> the rest underground.  70 years later, the colonists have guns.  How in
> the world were 4 year olds able to maintain the knowledge of how to make
> and maintain guns?

Well, even today, kids scarcely older than that are already running 
around with guns..

Besides, the adults may not all have died at the same exact time. Some 
of the last ones to die, might have spent their final hours or days 
teaching the children to defend themselves.

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"No urban night is like the night [in NYC]...here is our poetry, for we have
pulled down the stars to our will."
- Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City

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