From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Views on the Viewer?   
      
      
      
   "Ron"  wrote in message    
   news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Nov 2, 8:58aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > > "Graeme"  wrote in message   
   > >   
   > > news:55abff54-80b6-48cf-978d-f098c4cb776a@s10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:   
   > >   
   > > > With Balok, they didn't specifically say, but I'd assumed that Spock   
   > > > had intercepted a visual message from Balok to his home base.   
   > >   
   > > I didn't think so,   
   > > because neither Uhura nor Spock mentioned any messages.   
   > >   
   > > (Whereas later in the ep, Uhura intercepts just such a message.)   
   >   
   > Uhura didn't get anything--- it was Bailey, the navigator, who pulled   
   > that funky ear piece out of nowhere in his console and picked up the   
   > message. I always thought that was bizarre but they never did it   
   > again.   
      
   [later in the episode...]   
      
   UHURA:  "A signal, Captain.   
   It's very weak.   
   It's Balok.   
   It's a distress signal to the Fesarius.   
   His engines...are out...   
   His life-sustaining system   
   isn't operating.   
   The message is repeating, sir."   
      
   KIRK: "Any reply?"   
      
   UHURA: "Negative. His signal is growing weak.   
   Sir, I doubt the mother ship heard it."   
      
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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