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

On Nov 3, 1:04apm, "Steven L."  wrote:
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> > On Nov 3, 7:38 am, "Steven L."  wrote:
> > > "Ron"  wrote in message
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> > > > On Nov 2, 8:58 am, "Steven L."  wrote:
> > > > > "Graeme"  wrote in message
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>news:55abff54-80b6-48cf-978d-f098c4cb776a@s10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
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> > > > > > With Balok, they didn't specifically say, but I'd assumed that
Spock
> > > > > > had intercepted a visual message from Balok to his home base.
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> > > > > I didn't think so,
> > > > > because neither Uhura nor Spock mentioned any messages.
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> > > > > (Whereas later in the ep, Uhura intercepts just such a message.)
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> > > > 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.
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> > > [later in the episode...]
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> > > 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."
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> > > KIRK: "Any reply?"
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> > > UHURA: "Negative. His signal is growing weak.
> > > Sir, I doubt the mother ship heard it."
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> > That was the *second* message: the very first one Bailey received
> > which makes you wonder what th hell was going on there and why does a
> > navigator have a communications ear piece in the first place?
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> Bailey said something about hearing the message via his "navigation
> beam". aI guess the idea there was for the navigator to receive
> navigation data broadcast to him with his own ear piece.
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> With these early episodes, Roddenberry & Co. still hadn't tied down the
> procedures followed by the bridge crew.
Hmmm, but doesn't it seem rather odd that they write-in and create the
part of Uhura, a communications officer, only to have Bailey-- the
navigation officer--  to receive the message? Why didn't Uhura just
pick up the message in the first place?
Ron
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