wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire) (03/13/85)
This is being forwarded through me to NET.STARTREK. I only do some basic
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to me will be forwarded to the author, who will read them after she gets
some sleep.
Has anybody else noticed that reading net.startrek in clumps
tends to increase one's wish to jump up and down and wave
one's arms around and expostulate? No? Oh, well. Brace
yourselves.
I don't have any specific comments about Kirk's destiny, but
for the sake of scholarship and perspective, I'd like to point
out that the statement those discussing the matter refer to is
made by Spock (who ought to know), and goes as follows:
"Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny. Anything
else is a waste of material."
I never thought I should disagree with jayembee, but I must
say that my reaction to the suggestion that the woman in the
cafeteria in STIII, played by Grace Lee Whitney, was not
Janice Rand, was, "WHAT!" I suppose there's no way to prove
she was Rand, but the impact of that scene, where she stands
up slowly, her eyes fixed on the battered *Enterprise*, and
shakes her head, is considerably diminished if she's just any
old employee of Star Fleet hanging around Spacedock. There's
very little point to the scene if it's played by someone who
has no particular feeling for the *Enterprise*. (Yes, the
fact that everybody in the cafeteria stands up and stares is
significant, but on a different level.) That Rand had blond
hair and the woman in the cafeteria had red hair needn't mean
much. Even today, women dye their hair; it's probably far
easier and less messy in the 23rd century. And anybody who
would wear that basket-weave hair-style that Rand sported
on the TV series wouldn't balk at a mere change of color.
Now, about those $14.95 tapes of "Star Trek" episodes. I
gave in and bought two of them last weekend ("The Man Trap"
and "The Enemy Within"; they didn't have "Miri" in Beta
format), and I say they are worth every penny. The sound
is spectacular. There aren't any commercials. Everything
is where it ought to be. The color is nice and clean. And
they're MINE, by God; I can get up at four in the morning
and watch them if I bloody well feel like it. (There, I've
agreed with jayembee; I feel better.)
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