[Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Live Long and Prosper" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> Poster:       Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Earliest Use of "Live Long and Prosper"
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> According to my usual W-flavored source for this kind of trivia, it 
> was used in the episode Amok Time, which was written by Theodore 
> Sturgeon (a ranking SciFi writer of the fifties and sixties).
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> Geoffrey S. Nathan

Also creator of Sturgeon's Law:  "90% of everything is crap".

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