wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire) (08/15/84)
This is being forwarded through me to NET.STARTREK. I only do some basic formatting and I am not responsible for its feline-oriented contents. All responses sent to me will be forwarded to the author. All right, children. The name of the episode in which the *Enterprise* rescued a bunch of children and offered them ice cream (how's that for a plot summary?) is "And the Children Shall Lead". The name of the "Hallowe'en episode" in which one alien appeared sometimes as a beautiful woman and sometimes as a gigantic black cat is "Catspaw". The name of the episode involving Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln (played by Terri Garr), and an alien who appeared sometimes as a beautiful woman and sometimes as a normal-sized black cat is "Assignment: Earth". The name of the episode in which the Vulcan ship *Intrepid* is destroyed and the *Enterprise* is nearly destroyed by a gigantic space-going amoeba (which never appears as a cat of any size) is "The Immunity Syndrome". Got that? Good? Somebody objected to Peter Merchant's comparing the hypothetical behaviour of the Federation and the Klingons with regard to Kirk and Company to the political behaviour of present-day analogues. Such a comparison is a perfectly reasonable procedure. The human race is a little more sensible in Star Trek's future than it is now, but it seems mosly to have moved its aggressive and unreasonable behaviour from members of its own species outward a bit. The Klingons are NOT "advanced from our present warlike state", and no doubt the Federation might have to resort to present-day tactics to deal with them -- or with recalcitrant members of itself, for that matter. Besides, as has been pointed out before, Star Trek is a consistent future universe only when this does not interfere with its telling parables about twentieth-century man. -------- PDDB