From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   On May 12, 7:14aam, "GeneK"  wrote:   
   > "Ron"  wrote   
   >   
   > >Okay, a free lesson here:   
   > >Not necessarily-- some titles are meant only to be sardonic and to attract   
   > >attention.   
   >   
   > My free lesson to you is that attempts at being sardonic and sarcastic often   
   > don't work on the internet. aEspecially if you don't mark them with the   
   > universal symbol of intended humor. :)   
   >   
   > >Since you ar determined to hold onto the idea that Spock did not make any   
   kind   
   > >of mistake   
   >   
   > Since that was NEVER my point, and I was responding to what I thought was   
   your   
   > belief in a plot hole based on the Enterprise computer's performance, this   
   > exchange turned out to be two people engaging in totally different arguments   
   and   
   > I agree that continuing it would be a waste of time.   
   >   
   > Spock definitely posed a poorly-worded question, and the computer's ability   
   to   
   > still turn it into useful information anyway was a realistic depiction of the   
   > way programmers attempt to build databases.   
   >   
   > GeneK   
   Well, at least I am not the only one who thinks there is a flaw there:   
   http://www.tvrage.com/Star_Trek/episodes/162320   
   And if you have to bust your hump to explain something so it seems   
   right, then it's probably wrong.   
   Then there's one other thing that skirts being wrong: the Tarsus   
   executions took place 20 years before. Depending upon "canon" as some   
   finicky folks here rely upon almost obsessively, Kirk was 14 or if you   
   go by the scene that was cut, Kirk was a midshipman just out of the   
   Academy-- making him then between 18 and 22 roughly,  Okay...   
   But now there's Riley who presumably is a few years younger than Kirk.   
   What was Riley when *he* witnessed the crime; nine? Do the math   
   children... wouldn't it have been easier if Lenore just ignored Riley   
   altogether. Never mind; she's crazy, but still... Riley was awfully   
   young back then.   
   Ron   
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