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- From: cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jamais Cascio)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
- Subject: Re: A historical note relevant to CoC (no spoilers)
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:55:15 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- And another historical note, regarding character names:
-
- The Admiral was named Nechayev, which also happens to be the
- name of a 19th Century Russian anarcho-terrorist; for you
- literary types, he was the model for Peter Verkhovenskii in
- Dostoevskii's "The Devils".
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- Nechayev was an interesting sort. Managed to escape from prison
- by converting his guards to the Cause.
-
- Thoroughly evil, though. Let's see if the writers are giving us
- a hint, or are just fond of Russian names.
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