From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Terratin Incident (TAS): my review   
      
   Didn't think it was that bad, although the fact that a normal sized   
   Kirk can contact them at the end is a pretty huge plot hole.   
      
   Another big one is that the Terratins shrank the crew to get their   
   attenion without knowing that they had the Magic Transporter to   
   restore themselves.  Incapacitating the crew of the rescue ship is no   
   way to get rescued.  That sounds like something Gilligan would do.   
      
   As far as the transporter, it looks like nobody thought of it   
   earlier.  Kirk seems surprised that he's normal sized when he beams   
   down.  The Magic Transporter is a huge can of worms that should never   
   have been opened, as it calls into question why every redshirt Kirk   
   ever lost wasn't restored the same way.  And yet, three entire plots   
   in TAS are resolved with it.   
      
   But I didn't think it was that padded.  It's Trek's version of The   
   Incredible Shrinking Man, and as such the story is ABOUT shrinking,   
   and what it's like, not about whatever plot device made it happen.   
   The Trek-style examples that they give (trying to activate the   
   electric eye on the doors, using an ear laser to heal larger bones, et   
   cetera) are reasonable enough.  And give them credit for bothering to   
   explain why everyone's clothes were shrinking (who knew that Trek   
   uniforms were made of algae-based xenolon?).  I'd give it maybe 5/10.   
      
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