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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote:   
      
   >Star Trek the Cage confirms Spock as 3rd in Command on the Enterprise.   
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   >The new movie, does it bridge The Cage and Where no MAn has gone Before?   
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   >Chekov was a later addition.   
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   >McCoy must have been the number 2 mdic.   
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   >Scotty a junior engineer.   
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   >Is this making sense?   
      
   The new movie is off to the side.  There is no "Cage".  The Enterprise   
   is new, on its first voyage.  Most of its crew are fresh out of the   
   Academy, including Chekov.  Spock is second in command.  Kirk was made   
   third in command, before a lot of confusing shuffling about.   
      
   McCoy is older, but still joining the ship fresh from the Academy and   
   an ugly divorce.  In the old show, I think Scotty was #3.  In the new   
   show, he shows up later.   
      
   In The Cage, there was a woman at #2, who's no longer in the show by   
   the time of the second pilot.  In the first pilot, they split the   
   alien (Spock) from the emotionless logician (the woman).   
      
      
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