mnw@trwrb.UUCP (05/15/84)
The contributors to this newsgroup are sometimes strange. First we had a discussion on how fast the new Enterprise will go, now a discussion on salt shakers. It makes interesting reading when you have nothing else to do. But enough! ST was made with a limited budget (like most TV series), so they had to do the best they could with things that existed in the mid sixties that looked futuristic. STTMP didn't have the budget constraints, but lacked imaginative producers and writers. How about some of the things used in the movies that really are common today. STTMP used the wrist watch type communicators that the second movie didn't use. STTWOK went back to the type used in the series, but for some reason, they looked (to me) larger than the series communicators (a step backwards). Michael N. Washington TRW E&DS, Redondo Beach, Calif. 90278 trwrb!mnw