wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire) (07/16/84)
This is being forwarded through me to NET.STARTREK. I only do some basic formatting and I am not responsible for its content. All responses sent to me will be forwarded to the author. "City on the Edge of Forever" Scott W. Collins asks why, if McCoy's action in the past wiped out the future that had produced the *Enterprise*, the landing party from the *Enterprise* did not also disappear. I've never found any clue in the episode itself to explain this. However, in the copy of the final shooting script that I obtained from Lincoln Enterprises when I was young and foolish, the Guardian remarks, "Your vessel, your beginning, all that you knew is gone. You exist only because you are in my shadow of no time." Sounds good, huh? Wonder why they cut the line? Cloakng Devices Again Just when you thought it was safe to read net.startrek, I went to see "The Search for Spock" again. It's damned peculiar, as somebody would say, to see the movie having read net.startrek for months. Small matters that have been discussed take on an unnatural emphasis and the whole movie feels lopsided. In any case, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before, and that I don't believe anybody mentioned in the discussion of why only Kirk could see the distortion in space produced by the Klingons' cloaking device. The Genesis planet is already on the main viewing screen. Chekov says, "Short range scan, sir", and Kirk says, "Put it on visual." The screen wavers a bit, and then the distortion is visible. I don't know what they normally feed into that viewscreen, but if it isn't the short-range scan results, perhaps in a muddy way this explains the anomaly. "What am I, a doctor, or a moon-shuttle conductor?" -------- PDDB