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From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com
Verily, in article , did weberm@polaris.net
deliver unto us this message:
> What did you watch?
I watched "The Cage," the unaired ST:TOS pilot. It was pretty good. Trek
of that era is cheesy, but so was the written SF of the day. I was
impressed by Number One's acting. I wonder how it would have gone if
they'd retained her as the logical, unemotional first officer and done
something else with Mr. Spock.
This episode not only introduces the idea of exotic space sex slaves, it
also gives us a female bridge character with "unusually strong female
drives" and another who seems buttoned down but has unspecified
fantasies about her captain. They weren't shy about aiming for the
lurid-trash market.
I then watched "The Menagerie," which they made of the footage. I'd say
it's also decent. What everyone really remembers is crippled Captain
Pike in the chair. They never really explain why the Talosians are
willing to provide him with a VR retirement reality. Maybe Vina talked
them into it, or maybe they just thought things over.
A question about both versions: since Vina was put back together so
clumsily that she could barely walk, how in the galaxy did they expect
her to bear children? If they just didn't realize how dangerous that is
for humans, they might have had to rebuild her again after the birth.
Come to think of it, we should give those guys some anatomy books and
have them rebuild everyone whose injuries the Federation can't fix. We
could totally handle their agriculture and tech in exchange for perfect
medicine. They have the techniques; all they need is the information.
What did everyone else watch?
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
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