ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (08/18/84)
Has anyone thought of the cloaking device yet? It's still functional, as far as we know, and might serve to get Kirk and company past the federation checkpoints. Just add illegal entry to his other 'crimes'... I have a trivia question: In S.T.-The Motion Sickness (LOVE that phrase, whomever coined it.) at the very end, Admiral Nakamura requests Kirk and crew beam down for debriefing. Kirk says something like 'request denied', the idea being that Kirk is taking advantage of a polite turn of phrase on the part of his commanding officer to disobey a direct order. Was this in the movie or just in the book? I'm not about to sit through it again to find out. -- "Trivia is important." Ron Christian Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif. (...ios!wjvax!ron)
rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (08/21/84)
> Has anyone thought of the cloaking device yet? It's still > functional, as far as we know, and might serve to get Kirk > and company past the federation checkpoints. Just add illegal > entry to his other 'crimes'... But would it in fact have been "illegal"? He didn't enter Federation space from the neutral zone, he was already in Federation territory. > at the very end [of ST:TMP], Admiral Nakamura [sic] requests Kirk > and crew beam down for debriefing. Kirk says something like 'request > denied' . . . . Was this in the movie or just in the book? > "Trivia is important." Ron Christian Just the book, and it was Admiral Nogura. In the film, all that was said was Uhura reporting an "interrogative from Starfleet" about casualties and ship's status. They report Ilia and Decker as "missing" and ship's status as "fully operational". Scott agrees it's time for a proper shakedown and tells Spock that he can be back on Vulcan in a matter of days. Spock indicates that this is unnecessary and Kirk decides to go "that a way". The human adventure is just beginning. -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe