From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: efor6920@bigpond.net.au   
   Subject: Re: Metamorphosis: my review   
      
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in message    
   news:t7SdnY6MJZslfmfXnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   Very true and with good reason, an inventor is someone who creates something    
   a discoverer is someone who finds something, if it really is a principle of    
   physics then the person who 'came up with it' did not create it, it always    
   existed and they merely found out about it. (assuming it is actually a real    
   physics principle rather than just a statistical coincidence and assuming    
   our understanding of physics is within cooee of being correct)   
      
   cheers   
   Fozzi    
      
      
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