From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   On May 9, 6:46apm, ToolPackinMama  wrote:   
   > On 5/9/2011 5:49 PM, Ron wrote:   
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   > > On May 9, 1:57 pm, ToolPackinMama awrote:   
   > >> On 5/9/2011 2:19 AM, Ron wrote:   
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   > >>> Spock gets curious and asked the computer what things Leighton, Riley,   
   > >>> Kirk, and Karidian *had in common.*   
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   > >> Where exactly does that line of dialog occur?   
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   > >>http://www.voyager.cz/tos/epizody/13consciencekingtrans.htm   
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   > > Exactly? Start at the 20.00.00 minute mark where Spock goes to access   
   > > the computer on the bridge   
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   > > Spock: "Correlate. Check their past histories; report any items,   
   > > a a a a a a a aany past experiences they all have in common."   
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   > > Offscreen the computer tells Spock all the gory details, which he then   
   > > goes and relates to McCoy.   
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   > OK,Ron, we have no record of what the computer tells Spock, but we see   
   > Kirk asking similar questions and getting his answers, and it may be   
   > assumed that the computer eventually offered Spock the same information.   
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   > This is a common device in script-writing and is not a flaw.   
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   It's a flaw because Spock asked a very specific-- and wrong--   
   question. The computer however gave him the right answer from the   
   wrong question. If you had asked me what incident thos four people had   
   in common, I would hav told you nothing at all, but if I was feeling   
   generous, I might add that three of those four people something in   
   common. Computers on the other hand are literal beasties; it should   
   have told Spock that those four had nothing in common and that would   
   have been the end of it.   
   And what's even more odd, Spock himself doesn't realize he got the   
   right answer from the wrong question. For somebody who tears into the   
   computer when the thing only plays chess badly, I don't see why he   
   doesn't find out why it didn't tell him that those four people   
   mentioned had nothing in common; only three of them did. So it's   
   nitpicking, but that's my goal in life.  ;-)   
   Ron   
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