On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:46:45 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Lew
Hartswick quickly quoth:

Larry Jaques wrote:

Scotty is rolling over in his grave at this revelation of his
Transparent Aluminum for non-whale-retrieval use.


Larry, I don't recognize the reference.
Please elucidate.

Engineer Scott on the Enterprise in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
They gave the secret to a plexiglass manufacturer so they could
retrofit a Klingon Bird of Prey to carry enough seawater + a whale
back to the future to save the Earth from a planet-eating ship which
spoke "whale". Just watch the movie. It was one of their better
ones with lots of self-deprecating humor and Catherine Hicks in her
best and most babelicious years.

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