From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: The Paradise Syndrome: my review   
      
      
      
   "Anim8rFSK"  wrote in message    
   news:ANIM8Rfsk-FEB0A4.13495211102010@news.dc1.easynews.com:   
      
   > In article   
   > ,   
   >  Graeme  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Oct 11, 1:26apm, Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   > > > His father, remember? aHe didn't pass down the secrets.   
   > >   
   > > It was the Chief of the tribe who gave the Medicine Chief badge to   
   > > Kirok.  But maybe you're right.  It was probably because he had "lost   
   > > the instruction manual" to the obelisk (so to speak, a la The Greatest   
   > > American Hero), that the Chief relieved him of the job and gave it to   
   > > someone who came out of the obelisk.  That actually makes sense.   
   >   
   > KIRK: The secrets were passed on from father to son?   
   > MIRAMANEE: Yes. How does this open?   
   > KIRK: Well, why doesn't Salish use it? Why are the people in danger?   
   > MIRAMANEE: His father did not wish to share his power too soon. He died   
   > before he told Salish the secret.   
   > >   
   > > But why is deflecting asteroids the Medicine Chief's job anyway?   
   > > Shouldn't the Chief of the Tribe get to be the one who goes in and   
   > > hits the "Y" key?   
   >   
   > Hell, why doesn't EVERYBODY have the secret?   
      
   Maybe that's what the aliens had originally wanted--but some ambitious    
   Indians wanted to keep the secret for themselves, as a way of    
   maintaining their status in the tribe.  Miramanee's speech about    
   "Salish's father did not wish to share his power" suggests that's the    
   case.   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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