From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?   
      
   Ron  wrote in   
   news:340405e0-49d3-4824-837e-0dcd61007774@googlegroups.com:    
      
   > 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?   
      
   He may have been looking for something alive made of silicon, or    
   something made of silicon moving.   
       
   > 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?    
   >    
      
   The images were recorded too fast, he needed something to slow them    
   down.   
      
   > Ron   
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