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   Bast to All   
   Re: Just A Few Odd Things?   
   27 Sep 13 02:36:42   
   
   From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: fakename@nomail.invalid   
   Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?   
      
      
      
   Wiseguy wrote:   
   > wheresourblessing@israels.wars wrote in   
   > news:352949tr1tb4gb1qsd5qiho5site3sstt2@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:34:51 -0700 (PDT), Ron    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Because jews.   
   >>   
   >> Too bad they live long and prosper.   
   >>   
   >> -.-   
   >>   
   >> The Truthseeker: World War 3, Greater Israel & Real Axis of Evil   
   >>   
   >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwQlVxVt9A   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Nobody cares what you think...can't you understand that, idiot?   
      
      
      
      
      
   This may be the one time we agree.   
      
      
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