• Re: Just A Few Odd Things?

    From Wiseguy@1:2320/105 to All on Fri Sep 27 01:56:06 2013
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
    From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
    Subject: Re: Just A Few Odd Things?

    Ron <orion@centurylink.net> wrote in news:340405e0-49d3-4824-837e-0dcd61007774@googlegroups.com:

    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?

    He may have been looking for something alive made of silicon, or
    something made of silicon moving.

    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?


    The images were recorded too fast, he needed something to slow them
    down.

    Ron




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