quint@RU-BLUE.ARPA (06/26/84)
From: Anne Marie Quint [/amqueue] <quint@RU-BLUE.ARPA>
The flight recorder that was tampered with was a shuttle flight recorder
in the episode "Courtmartial". I dont remember any tampering with the
recorders of the Enterprise itself.
As I remember in "Amok Time", Spock was on the order of 50+ years old.
He had not yet had his first pon farr, and states during the scene where he
is telling Kirk about Vulcan Birds and Bees that he had hoped to be spared
the shame. Since the Young Vulcan was genetically Spock, a hybrid, I can't
see why the silly pon farr happened so early in the first place. Saavik and
he did not necessarily have to do anything, since in "Amok Time" he came
out of it after fighting Kirk, when he should have died. All in all,
a poorly done section of the movie.
I think the major weakness of the movie was all the bits of the plot/story
that were elft on the cutting room floor. I can see the gaping holes designed
to make you buy the book so you can know what is *really* going on. They did
this in ST2 also, where a major scene was cut out....Kirk finding out that
Saavik was "learning by doing" with David. Without that piece of information,
it is very questionable why Saavik would have taken a relative downgrade from
Command Captain Trainee to Scientific Researcher. I didnt think Romulans were
*that* loyal, and havign not been raised Romulan, she wouldn't have been
exposed to those standards of loyalty anyway, but to Vulcan.
The Vulcan Temple Maidens were for more than show...didn't anyone else
notice that thye seemed to be lending power to T'Whatsername as she was
re-recording Spock into his own head?
Live Long and Prosper
(or as Klingons would put it)
Die Young and be Sterile
Yay Trekkies!
/amqueue
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