From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Spock-Chapel "Romance"   
      
   Her so-called career in bio-research features heavily in the caption   
   version of that episode (unfortunately not available anywhere at the   
   moment).   
      
   But that whole sequence is weird.  Why'd she have to join the military   
   to look for him if they knew where he'd disappeared?  Why not just   
   send a rescue ship to Exo III five years ago?   
      
   Starfleet is incredibly uninterested in missing people and ships.  It   
   took them a hundred years to go looking for the Horizon.  About the   
   same before they were at all interested in the first Valiant.  50   
   years for the second Valiant, and both times, it seems like they were   
   more interested in the mission at hand, and maybe finding out what   
   happened to the Valiant was just a secondary interest.  Merick's ship   
   had been lost, what?  Five years earlier, until they finally go   
   sauntering by to find out what happened?  The Exeter had been out of   
   touch with Starfleet for at least 6 months.  When the Enterprise blew   
   out her engines on the asteroid, they spent 3 months limping back to   
   Amerind on their own.  Rescue operations are not Starfleet's forte.   
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