vickrey%coors.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (09/22/84)
>1) Why couldn't Scotty blow up the rocket ? Scotty couldn't blow up the rocket because that would be an observed interference. >2) How did the Enterprise travel thru time ? The Enterprise accidentally returned to the year 1970 or thereabouts by passing too close to a neutron star and discovering a slingshot effect that covered time as well as distance (Tomorrow is Yesterday). The Enterprise also discovered a way to travel through time when escaping a decaying orbit about a disintegrating planet (cold-start of the warp drive by an induced implosion in The Naked Time). >3) Why did Kirk + Spock not get beamed directly to Gary's apartment the > first time ? Kirk & Spock couldn't beam into Gary Seven's apartment because he erased the coordinate settings. The best they could do was beam a party down within a thousand meters, and triangulate. >4) Why did they Kirk only know about the history of the rocket and Gary > Seven at the end of the show ? Kirk only SAID something about the history of the rocket and Gary Seven at the end of the show. He could have known it all along, and just been playing out his role in history. By this time the Enterprise personnel knew that messing around with your own history could be a short trip to oblivion (Tomorrow is Yesterday, The City on the Edge of Forever). Actually, this is a good answer to 1) too. Scotty couldn't blow up the rocket because he didn't blow up the rocket. >5) The cat/human was definitely not in the credits. Isis didn't have any speaking lines (in her human form). Extras don't get credits. I never made the Foundation/encyclopedia connection before. I like it. This is one of my favorite episodes too. It was intended to be a pilot for a spinoff series, but it didn't sell. Susan