Subj : Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?
To   : All
From : Wiseguy
Date : Fri Sep 27 2013 01:56:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?

Ron <orion@centurylink.net> wrote in
news:340405e0-49d3-4824-837e-0dcd61007774@googlegroups.com: 

> I was watching Errand of Mercy and a few things struck me as odd,
> making enough to start a list of unexplained oddities. 
> 
> For one, on a planet with absolutely no technology, why didn't Kirk &
> Spock think it strange that the doors would open and close for them
> And speaking of no  technology, isn't the Prime Directive supposed to
> keep Federation people from making contact with backwards cultures
> that doesn't have space travel.Had the Organians been a human culture,
> wouldn't they have been badly freaked to hear about space ships and
> other worlds? So the PD is only a big thing until Starfleet needs
> something then it isn't? 
> 
> I was also thinking about Wrath of Khan. I wont mention that big plot
> hole about not recogniing the Ceti Alpha system but fid Kirk ever tell
> Starfleet about Khan? Just on the off chane some ship might come by
> Ceti Alpha V, beam  down a landing party, and suddenly find themselves
> captured? The way Chekov talked and the story went, it made it look
> like Kirk never told anyone about Ceti Alpha. I cand understand why he
> might not say anything about finding Zefram Cochrane, but Khan? 
> 
> And what's the deal with Spock setting his tricorder for silicon in
> Devil In the Dark; isn't most of the planet he was on made of silicon?

He may have been looking for something alive made of silicon, or 
something made of silicon moving.
 
> Oh, and while I am on the subject of tricorders, City On the Edge of
> Forever: I don't know why no one eve brings this up but there is a
> view screen on the tricorders, presumably to look at the data
> collected or the recordings made by the cute yeomans who are always
> taking log tapes. So if there is a view screen, why does Spock have to
> make some gizmo to see what he had recorded? Isn't there a playback
> function on the TRI-corder? 
> 

The images were recorded too fast, he needed something to slow them 
down.

> Ron
> 
>  
> 

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