From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: The Terratin Incident (TAS): my review   
      
   Graeme  wrote in news:30a30c67-a386-4586-a341-   
   c205b77008e7@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > 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.   
   >    
   >    
      
   Better than "Spock's Brain."   
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