Subj : Re: Views on the Viewer? To : All From : Marcovaldo Date : Thu Nov 03 2011 17:11:19 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: tanakasan@hushmail.com Subject: Re: Views on the Viewer? On Nov 3, 4:36apm, Ron wrote: > On Nov 3, 1:04apm, "Steven L." wrote: > > > > > > > "Ron" wrote in message > > >news:e6edf80f-e175-4064-9b07-9fbc43d51dd3@gk10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com: > > > > On Nov 3, 7:38 am, "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 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". aI 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. > > Hmmm, but doesn't it seem rather odd that they write-in and create the > part of Uhura, a communications officer, only to have Bailey-- the > navigation officer-- ato receive the message? Why didn't Uhura just > pick up the message in the first place? Maybe her line was busy so it rang over to Bailey. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp # Origin: http://groups.google.com (1:2320/105.97) * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .