CCD-ARG%dct@sri-unix.UUCP (10/08/84)
From: CCD-ARG (on Dundee Tech DEC20) <CCD-ARG@dct> Regarding the comment about technology being used in one show not being present in another, well in "The Menagerie" in which the previous Capt. of the Enterprise (Pike ?) is seen paralysed they could not interface his brain as happened to Spock in "Spock's Brain" as a) Spock's Brain was a considerably later episode b) Spock's was operated on by an alien race using knowledge considerably in advance of anything 'Bones' can do. Indeed he risks his life to save Spock's by connecting himself to the alien teaching machine which temporarily gives him the skills to reconnect Spock Incidentally The Menagerie was a two part episode constructed from the second Star Trek pilot and so was one of the first episodes made in any case. Alan Greig Comp Centre Dundee College of Technology Dundee Scotland --------