tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 04 11:34:18 1996
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Re: tu'HomI'raH
- From: Susan Farmer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tu'HomI'raH
- Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 14:36:11 -0400
>Have you forgotten about a "dunsel"? Think back to The Original Series.
>The Okudas' _Star Trek Encyclopedia_ defines "dunsel" as a
> "Term used by midshipmen at Starfleet Academy for any item
> that serves no useful purpose."
>In "The Ultimate Computer," Commodore Wesley referred to Kirk as "Captain
>Dunsel" after a successful test of Daystrom's M-5 multitronic computer
>which would have led to a fleet of unmanned, fully-automated starships.
>
>Now, does anyone know whether "dunsel" was an invented Trekkish term or a
>legitimate, if outdated, English word. I checked my desk dictionary, the
>online Webster, and the online Oxford English Dictionary. Nothing. I never
>heard it during my five years in the U.S. Navy (two years spent in the
>engineering department on a heavy destroyer, or what they used to call a
>light cruiser). It certainly would have come in handy.
>
I have the idea that Dunsel was the name of a trek-historical character that
was useless, but I'm not sure. Maybe Dunsel was Herbert's surname! :-)
tevram