I was watching Errand of Mercy and a few things struck me as odd,
making enough to start a list of unexplained oddities.
For one, on a planet with absolutely no technology, why didn't Kirk &
Spock think it strange that the doors would open and close for them
And speaking of no technology, isn't the Prime Directive supposed to
keep Federation people from making contact with backwards cultures
that doesn't have space travel.Had the Organians been a human culture, wouldn't they have been badly freaked to hear about space ships and
other worlds? So the PD is only a big thing until Starfleet needs
something then it isn't?
I was also thinking about Wrath of Khan. I wont mention that big plot
hole about not recogniing the Ceti Alpha system but fid Kirk ever tell Starfleet about Khan? Just on the off chane some ship might come by
Ceti Alpha V, beam down a landing party, and suddenly find themselves captured? The way Chekov talked and the story went, it made it look
like Kirk never told anyone about Ceti Alpha. I cand understand why he
might not say anything about finding Zefram Cochrane, but Khan?
And what's the deal with Spock setting his tricorder for silicon in
Devil In the Dark; isn't most of the planet he was on made of silicon?
Oh, and while I am on the subject of tricorders, City On the Edge of
Forever: I don't know why no one eve brings this up but there is a
view screen on the tricorders, presumably to look at the data
collected or the recordings made by the cute yeomans who are always
taking log tapes. So if there is a view screen, why does Spock have to
make some gizmo to see what he had recorded? Isn't there a playback
function on the TRI-corder?
Ron
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