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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:17:23 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:40:24 -0800 From: "Willis H. Ware" <willis () rand org> Subject: Re: MORE on TREK TECH To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> -- Folder: YES -- [For IP, if you wish] There is an interesting bit of history relative to Star Trek, the series. So far as I know, it is not anywhere else documented. I don't know how the connection was made but somehow Rodenberry et al made contact with a Harvey Lynn, the Administrative Assistant in the Physics Department of RAND Corporation through the 1960s. Harv was asked to read many of the early Star Trek scripts for scientific appropriateness. He did so with the aid of his secretary, who many years later became my personal secretary here. I'm told that Harvey was responsible for inventing the word "phaser" among other scientific tradecraft of the series. He eventually retired to Texas from RDA (R&D Associates) but is now deceased so the details of this history are probably unrecoverable. However, his son, Harvey P. Lynn, still works at RAND in its computing facility. Willis H. WareRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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