ARPA@ihlpf.UUCP (06/24/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-102700:ihlpf:8400003:000:1864 ihlpf!ctb Jun 24 00:39:00 1984 your letter, like many more i've seen on the topic of 'goofs of ST-III' looks like all the others. in a nutshell: the people who made ST-III goof up. they call a romulan ship a kilingon ship. the klingons look different. five people run a ship that normally requires MANY more. etc. etc. people come on the net and say 'look, a goof up.' then other people come on the net and pull stuff out of their ass to show us how/why it could have happened. you said yourself it looked like (from an old script) they simply changed from romulans to klingons. but no! what if (now insert an incredible line from some obscure star-trek book no one's ever read) happened!! do you REALLY believe the writers of the movie said 'but in the role playing game the klingons......'???????? heck no! they just throw out anything that comes to mind, 'cause they know it will sell. the klingons looked different (to me, anyway) because the people making the movie simply didn't care!!! why can't people accept the fact there's hardly a movie made that isn't full of holes? the reason i didn't like ST-III that much is because it had SO many holes. i couldn't sit there and say to myself 'why that must be a klingon from the lower south bronx 18th mutant strain , that's why they look different'. i simply said 'god, what's that plastic crap on their forheads???' quit defending the movie with wild-ass speculation! in some spots they blew it and obviously didn't fool everyone!!!! maybe THAT'S why so many people walked away saying ST-II was so much better... ron replies to: ihdev!rjv whooops! almost fell off my soap-box B-) ps: yes, i made a lot of exaggerations there, but do you get my point? in a sci-fi setting, yes, you can make damn near anything happen. but there's a point where you're making things up just to be making them up.