From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Metamorphosis: my review   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >    
   >> First, here was a man from the 21st century--but the script told us very    
   >> little about the 21st century.  Spock could have supplied some    
   >> historical context for Corbett's xenophobic disgust at learning that the    
   >> Companion loves him as a lover.  Just as Spock had supplied historical    
   >> context for Khan in "Space Seed."   
   >    
   > Nit the first: Cochrane wasn't from Earth (First Contact got it wrong).     
   > How interesting is life in the 21st Century on Alpha Centuri to the    
   > average viewer?   
      
   Probably very interesting, given Cochrane's evident xenophobia--and    
   given that this was a time before the Federation, when interstellar    
   colonization was brand new.   
      
   But as long as you're picking nits:   
      
   Cochrane could have discovered the space warp while on Earth, and *then*    
   emigrated to Alpha Centauri in the first warp-driven ships. A fitting    
   honor for the discovery of the warp principle would be to travel on the    
   first ships using it to colonize interstellar space.   
      
      
   >> Second, Glenn Corbett was frankly miscast as Cochrane.  He did not come    
   >> off as a scientist.   
   >    
   > Nit the second:  We don't know tht Cochrane was a scientist (First    
   > Contact got it wrong).  He's described as "the discoverer of the space    
   > warp" - discoverer, not inventor.  He could have been an average guy on    
   > Alpha Centuri that tripped and fell into a space pit full of space    
   > warpiness; just another face in a red jump suit.   
      
   Yeah, right.  You just find a space warp in your cellar and say "Eureka!"   
      
   Give me a break.  We often say that Einstein discovered the principle of    
   mass energy equivalence, right?   
      
      
   --    
   Steven L.   
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