Subj : Re: OTA TV
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Aug 04 2022 07:41:00

-=> Blue White wrote to Warpslide <=-

 BW> For American shows, those cuts may have been made back when the show
 BW> was syndicated.  A first-run, half-hour show was usually 22-24 minutes
 BW> long, I think, leaving 6 minutes for commercials.  When those shows are
 BW> sold into syndication, they usually cut out 2-4 minutes.

I first watched Star Trek in the 1970s as a kid in reruns; they'd taken out 
a couple of minutes to make room for more commercials.

I remember recently watching the episode "What are little girls made of?" on 
Netflix, and there's a scene when they are recording Kirk's engrams onto the 
android copy of him, and he says the same insult he says to Spock about 
being a half-breed under his breath while they duplicate him, passing that 
thought onto the copy - who ends up repeating the line and getting 
uncharacteristically angry at Spock.

I swore I'd never seen that scene in reruns, ever.


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