From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: The Pirates of Orion (TAS): my review

"Steven L."  wrote:
> "anim8rfsk"  wrote in message
> news:1094643997342386602.118424anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com:
> 
>> "Steven L."  wrote:
>>> "Graeme"  wrote in message
>>> news:e368ba5a-f39e-4475-a354-2913a8c5abb5@u2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:
>>> 
>>>> It's a great episode, but
>>>> just once in a while, you'd like to see them show a successful but
>>>> messy ending, because in real life you can't avoid those every time.
>>> 
>>> There were a couple of TOS episodes with messy endings:
>>> 
>>> 1.  "Charlie X":  The Thasians take him back to his life of loneliness
>>> after telling Kirk there's no other solution
>> 
>> And the girl without  face just got better?  Did the turkeys turn into
>> synthetic meatloaf in the crew's stomachs'?  How come we didn't actually
>> SEE Thanksgiving, given that the turkeys were in the oven?
> 
> The Thasian told Kirk:  "We have returned your people and your ship to
> you.  Everything is as it was."

Yep.  But he couldn't bring back the people Charlie blew up.  I can see
where the folk Charlie sent to the cornfield might be recovered, but
wouldn't faceless girl be sort of, you know, dead?

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