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From: vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer)
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Subject: Re: Talk: Comet and Stars
Date: 19 Jul 1994 17:56:27 -0500
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In article <30fpoi$71b@panix.com> baku@panix.com (Demon of Dreams) writes:
>
>In article <308qk4$ird@gagme.wwa.com> c9422948@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (Quantum) writes:
>>--------------------------------------------------------------- (ahsiung@BBN.COM) wrote:
>>: You wrote:
>>: >
>>: >Plan:
>>: >
>>: >"Second star to the right and straight on til morning..."  [...]
>>
>>: This probably isn't yours, but do you know from where this reference
>>: is taken?  Was it a Star Trek ep?  (I'm going crazy!)


It was used at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country;
HOWEVER, it is originally from Peter Pan.  "Second star to the right
and straight on 'til morning" is how you get to NeverNeverLand.  So
this phrase has been around for a LONG time; Star Trek just borrowed
it ...


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Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
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