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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Star Trek and Reality
Message-ID: <335@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Dec-83 07:19:49 EST
Article-I.D.: rdin.335
Posted: Fri Dec 23 07:19:49 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Dec-83 03:22:46 EST
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I'm the last person that anybody would call a
harsh realist, but come on guys, gimme a break.
The extent to which some people go to explain
the goings on in Star Trek episodes is unreal.
I can only hope that all of that imagination
is also being put to some productive use!

You know as well as I that Walter Koenig was
on vacation or something when Space Seed was
made.

As far as Scotty bringing the dead guy up to
the bridge, it was just for the purpose of making
us feel closer to the action.  It's a standard
dramatic tool that the director has used in hundreds
of other films.  In fact, if it WAS in any other
film (like maybe one about a WW II battleship)
noone would even think twice about it.  But because
it's ST, it has to be perfect, right?  Even real
life isn't as clean cut and technical as you
guys make out the Star Trek universe to be.

Now, don't get me wrong, I like nit-picking Science
Fiction shows as much as the other guy, but you
have to realize that at some point you can make
a show or movie just so technically perfect that
nobody but nuclear engineers would enjoy it.

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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