Re: Blocky Writing
Rob Zook 
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:58:07 -0500

At 04:10 AM 9/19/98 -0700, Mark Gardner wrote:
<snip>
>The "blocky writing" previously mentioned in a thread
>here is very interesting.  We are almost inclined to
>consider it like a type of computer/scanner readable
>"barcode" containing the name and identity code of the
>vessel.  

That was my first guess as well. It's repeated several
times for redundancies sake. So it's likely the ship's
designation in any case.


>If this is not the case, then perhaps it is
>the abbreviation for something like "Vulcan Diplomatic
>Courier Vessel" plus the name Surak.  It is fairly
>obvious that the characters are exaggerated in a 
>type of "super bold" style in order to be visible
>from a distance.  The normal characters in writing
>would likely be much "thinner".

Yeah, my thoughts coincide with this, it's a perfect
font for computer use. Also highly recognizable from
a distance (it took very little visual scanning of the
Encyclopedia to pick out the letters and how they
repeated desipite the tiny size of some of them).


>Let's discuss this issue and see if we can't come to
>some sort of agreement on how to interpret these
>characters.  This is something nobody appears to 
>have researched until now, so it is exciting to look
>at and theorize about.

So what would be OHV for "Shuttle", "small space vessel",
and "Vulcan Diplomatic Courier Vessel"?


Rob Z.