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   <2cf3b3ce-2612-4f96-a2d5-156746f7535b@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,   
    Graeme  wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 4, 11:04 am, Graeme  wrote:   
   > > With All Our Yesterdays it's all more arbitrary.  They can't be   
   > > together because we've made up a time travel machine that allows Spock   
   > > to go back, but not her.  We could just as easily have imagined a   
   > > machine that would let them both go.  But it doesn't matter, because   
   > > Spock doesn't really seem to care about her as more than a brief   
   > > fling.  He doesn't die, he leaves her voluntarily.  To me it just   
   > > doesn't have the same pathos that Romeo and Juliet does.   
   >   
   >   
   > I don't want to just be critical, so here.  I've just thought of an   
   > improvement for All Our Yesterdays.  So, how about this?  Spock   
   > **fully intends** to stay with Zarabeth.  But McCoy can't get back   
   > unless he and Spock go back together.  So he goes back with McCoy, all   
   > the time intending to go right back alone to be with her.  He returns   
   > to the present, and blammo, he's suddenly in his "right mind" again,   
   > and doesn't want to go back any more.  She's on the other side of the   
   > portal, calling for him to return.  How can he explain that he doesn't   
   > want to now?  Either he beams up, or she's so distraught that she   
   > comes through the portal to be with him, and is killed, just like she   
   > said would happen.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam up, zoom in on   
   > Zarabeth's body on the library floor, cut to Enterprise escaping   
   > supernova.  Now, that would have been an ending with impact.   
      
   The problem with any attempted fix is that they booted the 'preparation'   
   deal.  In theory, Spock would die in a short time if he went back   
   unprepared (which makes no sense since he was reverting).  You have to   
   wonder if the preparation and 'can't go back' bit are likes they told   
   the people to keep them from trying.   
      
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