From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: Metamorphosis: my review   
      
   On Nov 11, 8:18aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > > In article ,   
   > > a"Steven L."  wrote:   
   >   
   > >> First, here was a man from the 21st century--but the script told us very   
   > >> little about the 21st century. aSpock could have supplied some   
   > >> historical context for Corbett's xenophobic disgust at learning that the   
   > >> Companion loves him as a lover. aJust as Spock had supplied historical   
   > >> context for Khan in "Space Seed."   
   >   
   > > Nit the first: Cochrane wasn't from Earth (First Contact got it wrong). a   
   > > 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.   
   Exactly.   
   >   
   > >> Second, Glenn Corbett was frankly miscast as Cochrane. aHe did not come   
   > >> off as a scientist.   
   >   
   > > Nit the second: aWe don't know tht Cochrane was a scientist (First   
   > > Contact got it wrong). aHe's described as "the discoverer of the space   
   > > warp" - discoverer, not inventor. aHe 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. aYou just find a space warp in your cellar and say "Eureka!"   
   It's silly to think Cochrane isn't a scientist on some level.   
   Discovering the space warp isn't something a person would do by   
   accident. Regardless of the "how",  he 'discovered' the space warp and   
   he knew what it was and recognized it's importance, something a non-   
   scientist wouldn't know.  So no, Final Contact didn't get it wrong.   
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