From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Just A Few Odd Things?   
      
   wheresourblessing@israels.wars wrote in   
   news:352949tr1tb4gb1qsd5qiho5site3sstt2@4ax.com:    
      
   > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:34:51 -0700 (PDT), Ron    
   > wrote:   
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   >>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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