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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:   
   > weberm@polaris.net delivered 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.   
      
   If memory serves, they wanted a companion for Vina, possibly to repopulate   
   the planet.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Yeah, there was that... maybe they had IV technology (AKA "test tube   
   babies").   
      
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