From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: fozzibear01@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: The Way to Eden: my review   
      
      
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in message    
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   "Graeme"  wrote in message   
   news:6ae39aea-fa3a-44e7-85d7-01f1664d6757@o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Feb 21, 11:25 am, Graeme  wrote:   
   > > The idea of identifying Eden was pretty wonky.  What did they do,   
   > > search the whole galaxy for hitherto uncharted planets, and the moment   
   > > they found one, decided that this must be the one?   
   >   
   > Actually, it does make a sort of sense.  If all the planets in the   
   > galaxy are industrialized, it stands to reason that any undiscovered   
   > ones must be unindustrialized.  But is the idea that there's only one   
   > undiscovered Class M planet in the whole galaxy?  Or at least within   
   > reasonable range?   
      
   I thought the space hippies considered Eden to be particularly   
   beautiful, welcoming, and self-sufficient even without technology--and   
   that's why they wanted to go there.  Most unindustrialized planets are   
   probably savage, inhospitable places, like this one from "Space Seed":   
      
      
   KIRK:  Mr. Spock, our heading   
   takes us near the Ceti Alpha star system.   
      
   SPOCK:  Quite correct, Captain.   
   Planet number five there is habitable,   
   although a bit savage, somewhat inhospitable.   
      
   KIRK:  No more than Australia's Botany Bay colony was at the beginning.   
   Those men went on to tame a continent, Mr. Khan.   
   Can you tame a world?   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
   An exchange which is quite amusing to Australians familiar with their own    
   history Cook landed in botany bay.  The colony, which wasn't established    
   until 18 years later,was actually founded in Sydney Harbour( aka port    
   Jackson).   
      
   Botany bay was more than just a little inhospitable, it had no reliable    
   source of fresh water as it is a largely open bay where the mouth of the    
   Georges River opens into the sea.   
      
   Sydney Harbour had several fresh streams and springs being the largely    
   enclosed mouth of Parramatta River.   
      
   IOW Arthur Phillip, mission commander and first governor of the colony    
   rejected botany bay for the Tank stream a small creek/riverette that fed    
   into Parramatta river from a fresh spring only about 1 mile from where it    
   joined Parramatta river.   
      
   This may seem like splitting hairs to we modern people accustomed to viewing    
   distance through the eyes of a car owner, but by the standards of the time    
   it is actually a considerable distance away, Far enough that the new colony    
   didn't begin seriously developing the botany bay area for several years and    
   instead first tended to expand westward along the Parramatta river rather    
   than south toward the bay   
      
   As a side note, Fort Dennison on a small island roughly central to the    
   harbour is often mistakenly believed to have been built to keep out the    
   French, a belief fostered by the fact that La Perouse the French explorer    
   was conducting missions in the area at the time. In actual fact it was built    
   primarily to keep out the Americans after a US Schooner rewatered at the new    
   port and allowed several convicts to escape on board.   
      
   cheers   
   Fozzi    
      
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