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

On Nov 3, 5:11apm, Marcovaldo  wrote:
> On Nov 3, 4:36apm, Ron  wrote:
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> > On Nov 3, 1:04apm, "Steven L."  wrote:
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> > > "Ron"  wrote in message
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> > >news:e6edf80f-e175-4064-9b07-9fbc43d51dd3@gk10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:
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> > > > On Nov 3, 7:38 am, "Steven L."  wrote:
> > > > > "Ron"  wrote in message
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>news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
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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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> > > > > -- Steven L.- Hide quoted text -
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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.
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> > 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-- ato receive the message? Why didn't Uhura just
> > pick up the message in the first place?
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> Maybe her line was busy so it rang over to Bailey.- Hide quoted text -
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Uhura was talking to Customer Support about her crappy ear piece; ot
wasalways picking up extraneous signals while dropping important
calls. She wanted a refund as the ear piece was still under warranty.
Unfortunately the supervisor-- some fellow by th name of Khan
something-- was out sick and she was getting the runaround from
different tch people.
Ron
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say, kill them all...."
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