From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
   Graeme  wrote in news:b3de76be-93b7-49dc-a967-   
   035198c5ef96@k29g2000yqf.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Sep 2, 10:26aam, Graeme  wrote:   
   > > The ongoing pacing issue is aggravating, though. By this point in   
   > the series' run, the writers and producers really should have a   
   > stronger sense of how much story can fit into 22 minutes. >   
   >> >   
   >    
   > A good example of that would be to not have mentioned the bit of Spock   
   > mind touching with the Klingon at all, and then using that time (trap)   
   > for something else.  Obviously the writer put it in intending to   
   > resolve it somehow, but once he realized he had no time for that, it   
   > should have been ripped out completely.   
   >    
      
   This was probably done so that the Enterprise was at least partly aware of    
   the problem, otherwise the Klingons would know about the sabotage, the    
   viewers would know about it and finally the people of Elysia know about it    
   before Kirk and Spock even have a clue.   
      
   It also gives Spock some Vulcan stuff to do and presents a mini-mystery of    
   why Spock is acting that way.    
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