From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Views on the Viewer?   
      
      
      
   "Ron"  wrote in message    
   news:e6edf80f-e175-4064-9b07-9fbc43d51dd3@gk10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Nov 3, 7:38aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > > "Ron"  wrote in message   
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   > > news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com:   
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   > > > On Nov 2, 8:58 am, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > > > > "Graeme"  wrote in message   
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   > > > >news:55abff54-80b6-48cf-978d-f098c4cb776a@s10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:   
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   > > > > > With Balok, they didn't specifically say, but I'd assumed that Spock   
   > > > > > had intercepted a visual message from Balok to his home base.   
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   > > > > I didn't think so,   
   > > > > because neither Uhura nor Spock mentioned any messages.   
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   > > > > (Whereas later in the ep, Uhura intercepts just such a message.)   
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   > > > 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...]   
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   > > UHURA: a"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."   
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   > > KIRK: "Any reply?"   
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   > > UHURA: "Negative. His signal is growing weak.   
   > > Sir, I doubt the mother ship heard it."   
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   > That was the *second* message: the very first one Bailey received   
   > which makes you wonder what th hell was going on there and why does a   
   > navigator have a communications ear piece in the first place?   
      
   Bailey said something about hearing the message via his "navigation    
   beam".  I guess the idea there was for the navigator to receive    
   navigation data broadcast to him with his own ear piece.   
      
   With these early episodes, Roddenberry & Co. still hadn't tied down the    
   procedures followed by the bridge crew.   
      
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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