From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: orion@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: The Jihad (TAS): my review   
      
   On Oct 17, 7:24aam, Graeme  wrote:   
   > > A mad planet, Geologically unstable. Constant earthquakes, gravitic   
   shifts, tidal waves. The temperature varies from   
   > > twenty Kelvin to two hundred and four above. Somewhere on that planet, the   
   Soul of Alar is hidden. Three expeditions   
   > > have tried to recover it. Three expeditions have been lost. You are the   
   next, if you agree.   
   >   
   > And speaking of this quote, am I the only one who's not exactly   
   > brimming with confidence over this pronouncement? aThey've lost three   
   > expeditions, so they're going to do the exact same thing that's failed   
   > three times before, without making any special effort to correct it.   
   > Isn't that the definition of insanity? aI mean Kirk beamed down   
   > security guards to Triacus, and then couldn't contact them, but his   
   > answer wasn't "Let's keep beaming down more guards s until we   
   > do." a(Although that would have been funny).   
   >   
   > Are we supposed to believe that there was a traitor in each of the   
   > previous three parties, or that they were killed in other ways?   
   >   
   > That temperature range that the Vedala mentions, is -423 to -92, in   
   > Fahrenheit. aIn other words, the HOTTEST that it gets is 92 degrees   
   > below zero Fahrenheit. aAnd yet, the whole mission seems to take place   
   > in more-or-less shirt sleeve temperatures. aThese Mad planets just   
   > aren't as Mad as they're Cracked up to be. a(I'm trying to come up   
   > with a similar comment about magazines, but it doesn't quite make   
   > sense.)   
   The writer must have thought that Kelvins sounded way cooler then   
   celsius/centigrade not realizing that there is a *reason* why we   
   normally don't use it in everyday discussions of temperature. And as a   
   kiddies show, nobody was likely to question it if he did know. Funny   
   how our past decisions can come back to bite us,innit?   
   Ron   
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