From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: orion@centurylink.net   
   Subject: Just A  Few Odd Things?   
      
   I was watching Errand of Mercy and a few things struck me as odd, making   
   enough to start a list of unexplained oddities.   
   For one, on a planet with absolutely no technology, why didn't Kirk & Spock   
   think it strange that the doors would open and close for them And speaking of   
   no  technology, isn't the Prime Directive supposed to keep Federation people   
   from making contact with backwards cultures that doesn't have space travel.Had   
   the Organians been a human culture, wouldn't they have been badly freaked to   
   hear about space ships and other worlds? So the PD is only a big thing until   
   Starfleet needs something then it isn't?   
   I was also thinking about Wrath of Khan. I wont mention that big plot hole   
   about not recogniing the Ceti Alpha system but fid Kirk ever tell Starfleet   
   about Khan? Just on the off chane some ship might come by Ceti Alpha V, beam    
   down a landing party, and suddenly find themselves captured? The way Chekov   
   talked and the story went, it made it look like Kirk never told anyone about   
   Ceti Alpha. I cand understand why he might not say anything about finding   
   Zefram Cochrane, but Khan?    
   And what's the deal with Spock setting his tricorder for silicon in Devil In   
   the Dark; isn't most of the planet he was on made of silicon? Oh, and while I   
   am on the subject of tricorders, City On the Edge of Forever: I don't know why   
   no one eve brings this up but there is a view screen on the tricorders,   
   presumably to look at the data collected or the recordings made by the cute   
   yeomans who are always taking log tapes. So if there is a view screen, why   
   does Spock have to make some gizmo to see what he had recorded? Isn't there a   
   playback function on the TRI-corder?   
   Ron   
       
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