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To: dr_lew

At one point I had a long mental list of Heinlein ideas that rather blatantly slipped into Rodenberry’s Star Trek. I haven’t read RAH in years, so the list is lost to me now except for one item.

It seems obvious to me that Heinlein’s Flatcats became Tribbles.

I know there were plenty more. Anyone have any to share?


39 posted on 07/27/2007 12:02:00 AM PDT by WireAndWood (I want the Barbie twins to make me a sandwich.)
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To: WireAndWood

His 1958 juvenile title, ‘Have Spacesuit Will Travel’ had a very good depiction of early home built computing, some 20 years before Appple II, C64 and Atari.


40 posted on 07/27/2007 12:20:59 AM PDT by Company Man
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To: WireAndWood
It seems obvious to me that Heinlein’s Flatcats became Tribbles.

Yes, and if you compare Heinlein's ROLLING STONES with the Star Trek TRIBBLES episode, you will see that it even contains "The bombastic Harcourt Fenton Mudd" in the form of an asteroid miner.

42 posted on 07/27/2007 12:35:12 AM PDT by dr_lew
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