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Subject: Re: the destruction of the Enterprise
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Date: Fri, 4-May-84 04:23:00 EDT
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If I'm right, this is a spoiler.  Otherwise, it's a chance the writers missed
to do something they should.

The TV commercial shows the Enterprise with nearly half of the primary hull 
(the saucer) blown away or massively damaged.  We've known for, GAD! must be
20 years now!, that the Enterprise can jettison her primary hull in case of
emergency.  Of course, the series never had the budget to do anything like
that, but we ALWAYS knew (from the Writers' Guide) that it could be done.

I just bet it'll be done.  And that's the perfect way for the ship to go, if
go she must; invoking a procedure that Roddenberry conceived when first he
laid eyes on Matt Jeffries' design of the Enterprise.
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