Subj : Re: The Pirates of Orion (TAS): my review To : All From : anim8rfsk Date : Tue Nov 08 2011 09:01:28 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net Subject: Re: The Pirates of Orion (TAS): my review "Steven L." wrote: > "anim8rfsk" wrote in message > news:1094643997342386602.118424anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com: > >> "Steven L." wrote: >>> "Graeme" wrote in message >>> news:e368ba5a-f39e-4475-a354-2913a8c5abb5@u2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com: >>> >>>> It's a great episode, but >>>> just once in a while, you'd like to see them show a successful but >>>> messy ending, because in real life you can't avoid those every time. >>> >>> There were a couple of TOS episodes with messy endings: >>> >>> 1. "Charlie X": The Thasians take him back to his life of loneliness >>> after telling Kirk there's no other solution >> >> And the girl without face just got better? Did the turkeys turn into >> synthetic meatloaf in the crew's stomachs'? How come we didn't actually >> SEE Thanksgiving, given that the turkeys were in the oven? > > The Thasian told Kirk: "We have returned your people and your ship to > you. Everything is as it was." Yep. But he couldn't bring back the people Charlie blew up. I can see where the folk Charlie sent to the cornfield might be recovered, but wouldn't faceless girl be sort of, you know, dead? -- sent from a borrowed ipad --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp # Origin: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy! (1:2320/105.97) * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .