From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: The Spock-Chapel "Romance"   
      
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    Graeme  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   The Archons had been missing 100 years, and they apparently knew on what    
   planet.  You mentioned the second Valiant, 50 years earlier, but they'd    
   been losing ships left and right for the last 20 years and lost    
   thousands of lives, which is finally what got Starfleet's attention.   
      
   --    
   As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"     
   the second half of the series pilot when Jill St. John as Molly as     
   Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:     
   "What a way to go-go"   
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