Subj : Re: Cage Blooper
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Graeme
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 08:26:01

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

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During the meeting in the Briefing Room, presumably Spock or Jose tells

Number One that on the planet's surface they met a young blonde woman,
Vina, who the illusory scientists said was born as they crashed.  And
that this blonde girl helped trap Captain Pike for the Talosians.

So naturally when Number One beams down inside the Talosian menagerie
and meets a young blonde woman standing next to Pike, of course she'll
assume it's the young Vina that Jose and Spock were talking about.
It's
the simplest assumption--how many young blonde women should she assume
live down there?
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You're right that it's not a true blooper in the sense that it's
possible to fanwank an answer that's at least technically possible.
None of them are believable, though.

They had no reason to believe that there had been ANY genuine
survivors.  And, like Pike, no reason to think that any faces from the
survivor's encampment would show up in any other illusions.  For Number
One to beam down, see a blonde woman, and instantly conclude and state
with certainty that a) this is a real person, not an illusion, b) this
is the same person seen in the survivor's encampment (because they both
have the same hair colour!?), c) Though a real person, it's not really
someone who was born almost as the ship crashed, d) both people are the
real original Crewman Vina from the whatchamacallit, meaning d) That
the person is real but her appearance isn't, and f) That Vina was the
only genuine survivor (notice she never asked what cage Theodore
Haskins was in) is just a long chain of wild guesses that she made in
15 seconds, and which magically all happened to be correct.  Possible,
yes, but ridiculous.

Not as ridiculous as Spock stating that the odds of both being killed
by the Horta were 2224.7 to 1, perhaps, but still ridiculous.

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