Subj : Re: Views on the Viewer? To : All From : Steven L. Date : Thu Nov 03 2011 20:04:06 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 > > > > news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 2, 8:58 am, "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"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.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > 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. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .