From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: fatkinson@mishmash.com
Subject: Re: Uhura's "fantasy" line in STIII:TSFS
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT), SparkoHeaps
wrote:
>On Mar 31, 5:08apm, "Steven L." wrote:
>> In "Star Trek III: TSFS," Uhura says to the young ensign "This isn't
>> reality. aThis is fantasy!"
>>
>> That struck me as an odd thing to say. aI've always wondered if it could
>> be an inside joke on the part of the producers or scriptwriter. aTwo
>> years before ST III premiered, the movie "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial"
>> had premiered, in which the boys allude to Star Trek as being fantasy:
>>
>> Elliot: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his
>> spaceship.
>>
>> Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
>>
>> Elliot: This is *reality*, Greg!
>>
>> So maybe Uhura's line was a reference to that scene in "E.T."?
>>
>> -- Steven L.
>
>Maybe so. I remember laughing at that line, but I wasn't sure why.
I'm not sure that I understand why you would consider that so strange.
I completely understood why it was so funny at the time. I was
smiling ear to ear because I knew exactly what was about to happen. It
wasn't hard to figure out based upon what I had already seen.
Uhura knew that Kirk, McCoy, and Sulu were coming.
Mr. Adventure's comment just by luck timed out with what was happening
at the time.
If I was in a similar position, I might have said that same thing or
something along those lines.
What was a real surprise was seeing a side of Uhura that I had never
seen before.
If I had to choose her single best performance in all the years she
was on Star Trek, the Mr. Adventure scene would be the one I would
pick.
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