From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: More Holes To Plug   
      
      
      
   "Ron"  wrote in message    
   news:8fdac69c-52ce-4143-84ef-a5e4b9b4db86@r3g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Apr 2, 9:11aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > > "Ron"  wrote in message   
   > >   
   > > news:6e8c5bdb-25e0-4d01-930c-379d7e5d5b50@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:   
   > >   
   > > > So--- the Iotians would have to use radar or some form of it. That   
   > > > would require a big dish pointed at the skies, 24/7, manned constantly   
   > > > by a race of people dedicated to playing gangsters. Does that sound   
   > > > logical?   
   > >   
   > > Well, the Iotian gangsters all had automobiles. aSo somewhere there had   
   > > to be engineers designing cars, assembly lines manned by workers to   
   > > produce the cars, etc. aPlus, there had to be architects and builders to   
   > > build all those buildings, sewer pipes, electric power lines, electric   
   > > generators, telephone lines, etc. aAnd we saw they had at least one   
   > > radio station with a disk jockey.   
   > >   
   > > That a bunch of gangsters could get all that infrastructure built and   
   > > maintained is no less logical than they could oversee the construction   
   > > of one radar dish.   
   >   
   >   
   > Nobody said the Iotians were primitive; the Horizon didn't give them   
   > everything.   
   > I think Kirk said they were on the edge of industrialization when the   
   > Horizon came. So sure they houses, plumbing, maybe even a better   
   > design for airplanes than the Wright brothers came up with, and   
   > possibly even radio. We forget in the 21st century that radio began as   
   > a piece of crystal and a pair of headphones; it wssn't until DeForest   
   > came up with the vacuum tube that everything changed.   
      
   I deliberately used the word "maintained."   
      
   Industrialization requires contracts between parties, and those    
   contracts can only be enforced by the rule of law.  That Iotia could    
   continue to industrialize even after the planet lapsed into anarchy,    
   lawlessness, and gangsterism is quite a stretch.  Much more of a stretch    
   than Mr. Oxmyx paying a few technicians to build one radar set.   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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