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Subj : Cage Blooper
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Graeme
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 11:55:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

One blooper in The Cage that I don't remember anyone ever mentioning,
from when Number One gets snippy and threatens to do a little time
computation about Vina's age.  Um, who said her name was Vina?  Nobody
in the scene had mentioned it since the beamdown.  Unless she'd been
the only woman on board, how could Number One have possibly known that?

Even if she had been the only woman on board, the Talosian story had
been that she had been born almost as the ship crashed.  If that were
true, there's no reason the daughter of Crewman Vina.  Basically Number
One pulls plot foreshadowing out of thin air here.


Kind of odd too that at the end the Talosians should be convinced that
humans can't survive in captivity, after they've been holding Vina that
way for 18 years.  That should have been a clue that individuals vary
and that maybe the ship's captain just wasn't the right choice.  But
no, this escapes them.  No wonder these people are dying out.

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