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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/24/14 8:33 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"  wrote:   
   >> On 1/24/14 5:39 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Using Scotty as a comedy sidekick was just wrong.  The ice creature   
   >>> was something that belonged in a Star Wars flick, not Star Trek.   
   >>   
   >> 	Indeed. Star Trek would never have bizarre creatures on it like   
   >> one-celled organisms the size of a planet that eat life energy, or   
   >> illusion-casting salt vampires, or energy beings that live off hate, or ...   
   >   
   > Those weren't tossed out for single-scene shock value.   
      
   	They couldn't afford single-scene monsters in 1967.   
      
      
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