mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (03/17/86)
> The spoars seemed like such a good way of curing people. If one voluntarily It's spelled "spores". > permits himself to become influenced by the spoars, the spoars will cure > him of every disease. Then someone could start a brawl with the patient > or insult his family or mother and the spoars would be gone, but as McCoy > said, the colonists were in perfect health--a fringe benefit left over by > the spoars! Well, okay, it's not real, I keep forgetting, but you'd think > McCoy would realize this. One of the things that always bothered me about Star Trek is that they discovered many such useful things (a drink that makes people move faster than light, a way to turn people into VERY powerful telekinetics) which are completely ignored once the story is over. If they kept all this stuff they would have had a ship full of superheroes. Of course, by the third season, everything would have been so easy for the crew that the show would be pretty boring to watch ("Do you want to telekinetically destroy the 4000 attacking klingon ships, Captain, or shall I?", "The engines have been completely destroyed, Captain. It'll take at least 12 milliseconds to rebuild them by hand.") Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "I'm sorry, sir. According to your identification you're not even born yet. Come back in 500 years."
knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) (03/25/86)
> One of the things that always bothered me about Star Trek is that they > discovered many such useful things (a drink that makes people move faster > than light, a way to turn people into VERY powerful telekinetics) which > are completely ignored once the story is over. If they kept all this stuff > they would have had a ship full of superheroes. Of course, by the third > season, everything would have been so easy for the crew that the show > would be pretty boring to watch ("Do you want to telekinetically destroy > the 4000 attacking klingon ships, Captain, or shall I?", "The engines > have been completely destroyed, Captain. It'll take at least 12 milliseconds > to rebuild them by hand.") > > Scott McEwan > {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan > Right... it always bothered me how they just forgot or threw away all those wonderful gadgets and powers, even when they weren't destroyed. Remember "That Which Survives" where this little ceiling-mounted computer is projecting these beautiful women? Scotty phasers the thing just enuf to stop it, but nobody takes it apart ot find out how it threw the Big E 999 lite-years across the galaxy... Some scientist Spock is. He should order "Scotty -- reverse-engineer that thing if you want your salary doubled!" mike k Oh yeah, Nomad improved the engines' efficiency until the ship almost fell apart, and some aliens modified them for intergalactic travel*, and ... jeez what a waste! *The closing never mentioned what Scotty was going to do about those souped-up engines "It'll take me three days ta put all the smog controls back on!"
tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter) (03/27/86)
>> One of the things that always bothered me about Star Trek is that they >> discovered many such useful things (a drink that makes people move faster >> than light, a way to turn people into VERY powerful telekinetics) which >> are completely ignored once the story is over. If they kept all this stuff >> they would have had a ship full of superheroes. Of course, by the third >> season, everything would have been so easy for the crew that the show >> would be pretty boring to watch ("Do you want to telekinetically destroy >> the 4000 attacking klingon ships, Captain, or shall I?", "The engines >> have been completely destroyed, Captain. It'll take at least 12 milliseconds >> to rebuild them by hand.") >> Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan > Right... it always bothered me how they just forgot or > threw away all those wonderful gadgets and powers, > even when they weren't destroyed. > mike k This relies on a corellary to the Douglas Adams' Theory of Discovery: If anyone discovers what the universe is really for it will instantly disappear to be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable The corellary: If anyone discovers anything massively useful it will instantly disappear to be replaced by something discovered in another episode. --j.a.tainter "It just told me what I new all the time. I'm a really neat guy!"