elb@mtx5d.UUCP (Ellen Bart) (05/07/85)
<is the line bug still around>
Okay...
I saw the Alternative Factor recently (the one with the
parallel universes, Lazarus, the negative magnetic corridor --- ring
a bell ?). It never occured to me before but:
Why doesn't Kirk just kill the insane Lazarus ?? That way the
identical particles can't meet. Even if you say that killing one kills
the other (I'm not sure the part in the show where destroying one ship
destroys the other really follows) wouldn't Lazarus rather be
dead than "trapped for all eternity" ("all eternity" isn't that redundant
and repetitive?)
And as for recent questions about lumens and the bridge screen -- in one
of the James Blish noveliaztions (which were written from drafts of the
scripts by the way) Blish writes something like "...as the screen hastily
backed down the itensity scale". Sounds like the screen does have a
brightness control but it can't anticipate great changes in intensity
in enough time to dampen the effect completely.
ellen bartjimc@haddock.UUCP (05/13/85)
What I've never been able to understand is why Lazarus and his counterpart would necessarily be trapped there for "all eternity." Wouldn't they just simply grow old and die? Jim Campbell ...!harvard!ima!haddock!jimc