in article VA.00000518.49a0417a.DeleteThis@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid, Aidan
Karley at aidan.DeleteThis@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid wrote on 1/29/05 6:00 PM:
> I think the comment was that "Louis was the only person *alive*
> who had made First Contact with an alien species".>>
correct:
" "Then why me?" he asked. "I don't know," she confessed. "Could it be the
charisma? You're a hero, you know." He was the only living man to have made
first contact with an alien species. Would he ever live down the Trinoc
episode?"
That makes the
> previous first contact more than a generation previously.
well .. actually it just means that anybody else who had met an alien first
is dead. But it does have to be more than 20 years:
"We know the Trinocs bought from you, and we didn't meet the Trinocs until
twenty years ago."<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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