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   ericabugca@yahoo.ca to All   
   Re: Turnabout Intruder: my review   
   29 Apr 11 18:56:51   
   
   From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ericabugca@yahoo.ca   
   Subject: Re: Turnabout Intruder: my review   
      
   On Apr 29, 10:38apm, Graeme  wrote:   
   > On Apr 29, 8:34apm, Marcovaldo  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Not necessarily. There could have been an explanation, for example,   
   > > that the name is too difficult to pronounce for humans (as in   
   > > "Babel"), or, as another example, ain their culture, the name is too   
   > > personal to reveal to outsiders. Roddenberry named every character   
   > > except her, so he must have wanted to keep her name a mystery. I don't   
   > > assume that he would have eventually revealed it.   
   >   
   > On Get Smart, we not only never learned 99's name, we never learned   
   > her mother's name, either. aShe's just "99's Mother". aIt's quite   
   > possible that no name for Number One would ever have been given even   
   > if the series had run for years. aBesides 99, there was also Number   
   > Six and Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, at about the same time.   
   > Namelessness was kitschy then.   
   Going back even further, Marilyn Monroe's character in "The Seven Year   
   Itch" is "The Girl."   
   Erica   
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