abdul@lpi3230.UUCP (Abdul Nabi) (06/16/84)
<Welcome aboard Captin.> I just saw "The Enemy Within", where the transporter malfunctions, Kirk gets split in two, good and bad, (and the bad attempts to rape Yeomen Rand), and Sulu and company are stranded on an ice cube planet because the transporter malfunctioned. Well, as in many episodes, they neglect the shuttlecrafts. From the beginning scenes there were good landing spots, so why not just send down a shuttlecraft to save the day? I'm certainly not command material, yet even this simple solution passed by Kirk and Spock (God forbid!). Any comments? Also, did Kirk's "evil" side attack on Janice Rand show any indication of what Kirk really thinks of her? On other episodes he talks about her, (also did you get a glimpse of her in STIII when the Enterprise was coming into the starbase. What is the significance of that? Was she waiting for Kirk? What about Carol Marcus? Well, ds they say "As the World Turns"! Abdul Nabi Linus Pauling Institute
disc@houxz.UUCP (Cmdr. Montgomery Scott) (06/19/84)
This question has been answered here more than a few times, but I'll repeat it since you don't know. At the time that particular episode was filmed, (first season?) they had not come up with the idea of shuttlecrafts. Scott J. Berry
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (06/20/84)
The reason they didn't use the shuttlecraft in "The Enemy Within" was because by leaving Sulu down on the planet, he got to deliver some really funny/silly lines. (I only saw this one once, but after about 10-15 min., every time they cut to Sulu & co., I started laughing before he could say anything....) -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (06/20/84)
{ How'd you like to lower us down a pot of coffee? }
Well, possibly the planet was too cold and the gears would freeze up
or something extremely silly like that.
When was the first shuttlecraft introduced? Possibly they hadn't
conceived of one yet.
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Peter Merchant barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) (06/21/84)
[ --- ] >When was the first shuttlecraft introduced? Possibly they hadn't >conceived of one yet. >-- > Peter Merchant Funny, but I just looked that up in my well thumbed Concordance. Shuttlecraft first showed up about five or six episodes after "The Enemy Within," in an episode called (surprise) "Galileo 7." You may remember this as the one in which Spock and several others are marooned on a planet where *nothing* follows the dictates of logic, leaving Spock in quite a quandry when his imeccably logical orders wind up getting several crewmen killed. The opinion I've heard most frequently put forward about "The Enemy Within," (on the net) is that if they *had* just sent down a shuttle to pick up Sulu and the gang, the episode would have been a lot less gripping. That's probably as good an expanation as any. I don't buy that they hadn't been thought up at this point: if that's true, why did the model of the Enterprise have that shuttle bay stuck on the back? "It's a humongous SPACE WALRUS!" Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett
jsc@ucbvax.UUCP (James Steven Carrington) (06/27/84)
"The Enemy Within" was filmed during the first year of the series. Although Gene Roddenberry had planned on the Enterprise having a shuttle bay, the studio simply didn't have the money to build the sets and miniature models of the shuttles. therefore, no shuttles in the episode. -- James Steven Carrington UC Berkeley Undergraduate Computing Facility jsc@berkeley.arpa ucbvax!jsc