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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bug in "The Immunity Syndrome"
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 11:59:41 EDT
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Actually, the titles of the episodes Dave Decot cites are rather well
chosen.  You do have to remember that writers, being literary, will choose
titles which you or I might not.  Now, "The Changeling" is a perfect title.
As stated in the episode, Nomad is in fact a changeling although it was not
spirited away by gypsies.  "Turnabout Intruder" is a good title because the
woman intruded into Kirk's body, in a sense, and turned back out at the
end.  Likewise, "Dagger of the Mind" illustrates well the lobotomizing
capabilities of the machine used against the patients.  "Balance of Terror"
refers to the means by which enemies can be kept at peace, "Who Mourns for
Adonais?" captures the mood of Apollo in that episode, and "The Omega Glory"
includes both the name of the star system within which the episode took
place, the "end" (omega) of an all-out war, the glory of democracy, and
'Old Glory.'  "Whom Gods Destroy" is a literary allusion to the quote,
"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad."  [Shakespeare?]  And (to
answer your question) I can - and did - name each of the titles with no more
than three seconds' thought each.  However, I have been at it for almost
fifteen years.

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		Roger Noe		...ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe