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   In article <1355511@news1.IPSWITCHS.CMM>,   
    ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:   
      
   > 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."   
      
   That would be nice.  It also would have been nice to let the real Mr.   
   AtoZ go, and keep one of his (presumably non living) duplicates around   
   to help.   
      
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