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



"anim8rfsk"  wrote in message 
news:1781647196342405474.986786anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com:

> "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?

It's not discussed in the episode,
but I'm sure that 23rd century medical technology could have kept her 
alive on life support while McCoy figured out what to do with her.  Even 
today, a tracheotomy could get oxygen into her lungs and so on.

They were able to keep Capt. Pike alive, despite the fact that virtually 
his entire body south of his neck was useless.




-- Steven L.


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