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   From: ddl@danlan.*com   
      
   In article ,   
   ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net (Anim8rFSK) writes:   
   | In article   
   | <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.   
      
   I'm willing to believe the "preparation" part--maybe that would have   
   *prevented* him from reverting.  I always assumed the "can't go back"   
   part really meant "we won't switch the machine to reverse because we   
   don't want you to come back."  But then I'm still not convinced they   
   had a time machine.  The ending I would have preferred is Kirk's   
   ordering, "beam the atavachron and disks into a cargo bay for further   
   study."   
      
   				Dan Lanciani   
   				ddl@danlan.*com   
      
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