From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Metamorphosis: my review   
      
   In article ,   
    "Steven L."  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Absolutely, although the timeline gets a bit iffy.  Assuming the space    
   warp predates FTL travel . . . Cochrane would have been born in the    
   1970s by the original TOS dating, and vanished in the mid 2000s.  That    
   makes it kind of tight for Earth to establish a colony STL, have    
   Cochrane emmigrate, and then discover the space warp.  Your way works    
   better.  But I never assumed Cochrane was from Earth at all, or even    
   necessarily human, although he does ask if Kirk and crew are "Earth    
   people"  Still, it strikes me as odd to refer to somebody as being 'of'    
   where he retired.  It's like if Napoleon Bonaparte had show up in THE    
   SAVAGE CURTAIN and Kirk had said "Napoleon Bonaparte?  From Elba??"   
   >    
   >    
   > >> 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?   
      
   The obvious example is Columbus, hailed as the discoveror of America,    
   even though he never saw the place.  There are lots of ways Cochrane    
   could have discovered a space warp without being a scientist.   
      
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