From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Views on the Viewer?



"Ron"  wrote in message 
news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

> On Nov 2, 8:58aam, "Steven L."  wrote:
> > "Graeme"  wrote in message
> >
> > news:55abff54-80b6-48cf-978d-f098c4cb776a@s10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
> >
> > > With Balok, they didn't specifically say, but I'd assumed that Spock
> > > had intercepted a visual message from Balok to his home base.
> >
> > I didn't think so,
> > because neither Uhura nor Spock mentioned any messages.
> >
> > (Whereas later in the ep, Uhura intercepts just such a message.)
>
> Uhura didn't get anything--- it was Bailey, the navigator, who pulled
> that funky ear piece out of nowhere in his console and picked up the
> message. I always thought that was bizarre but they never did it
> again.

[later in the episode...]

UHURA:  "A signal, Captain.
It's very weak.
It's Balok.
It's a distress signal to the Fesarius.
His engines...are out...
His life-sustaining system
isn't operating.
The message is repeating, sir."

KIRK: "Any reply?"

UHURA: "Negative. His signal is growing weak.
Sir, I doubt the mother ship heard it."




-- Steven L.


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