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116			 REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH
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WRITER: Jerome Bixby

GUESTS: James Daly (Flint)
	Louise Sorel (Rana Kepec)

AIRED:	February 14, 1969

HACK-MAN rating: .660
Usenet rating:   .564

QUOTES:
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 - "Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan?" --McCoy
 - "We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we?" --Kirk  (a good quote to take
   out of context :-)
 - "Forget..." --Spock


			 REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH

PLOT:
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The Enterprise crew has contracted Rigelian fever (the modern equivalent of
the bubonic plague).  Flint is an immortal being.  Kirk falls  in love with
android Rana, who was built and taught by Flint, and has  the equivalent of
(16?)  university degrees.  Flint built the M4 robot  to serve  him.  Spock
experiences envy for Flint's  art collection,  drinks 100  year old Brandy,
plays piano, and erases part of Kirk's memory.  Flint wanted to use Kirk to
rouse emotions in Rana, so that she would become fully human and would be a
suitable, immortal mate.

FACTS:
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 - Flint was born in 834 B.C.
 - Flint was lots of famous  people:  Methuselum, daVinci, Socrates, Moses,
   Brahms.
 - 1 stardate is about 960 hours!
 - Spock wipes Kirk's memory (form of mind meld).

OPINIONS:
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Another good idea with a fairly decent plot execution.