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Subject: Salt Shakers
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 23:14:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  6 23:14:16 1984
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	    >   8.  What common twentieth-century kitchen
	    >       utensils were used on the show as
	    >       super-sophisticated medical instruments?

	 >>    8.  Salt shakers were used as super-
	 >>        sophisticated medical instruments.

	Actually, this is what happened: The producers were trying
     to design a salt shaker that would look very high-tech to put
     on the tables in the dining rooms (rec halls?) of the Enter-
     prise. When they finally finished them and had them constucted
     they realized that a person watching the show on T.V. would
     have no idea what the salt shakers were! Therefore they decided
     to use them as Dr. McCoy's equipment.

     Source: I read this in The Making of Startrek years ago.

					Eli Haber
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