Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek Subject: Re: Star Trek III Message-ID: <503@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 15:12:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.503 Posted: Thu Jun 28 15:12:30 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Jun-84 03:28:01 EDT References: <1279@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 31 > From: Anne Marie Quint [/amqueue] > The flight recorder that was tampered with was a shuttle flight recorder > in the episode "Courtmartial". I dont remember any tampering with the > recorders of the Enterprise itself. Shuttle flight recorder? No, it was the bridge recorder of the Enterprise. > I think the major weakness of the movie was all the bits of the plot/story > that were elft on the cutting room floor. I can see the gaping holes designed > to make you buy the book so you can know what is *really* going on. Many of these scenes which would have helped ST3 were never shot in the first place. I hardly think the gaping holes were designed to get people to buy the book. Most people don't see these holes until they have read the book (Trek fans excluded, of course). > it is very questionable why Saavik would have taken a relative downgrade from > Command Captain Trainee to Scientific Researcher. She was a cadet in ST2, science officer of Grissom in ST3. Not what I would call a demotion. > The Vulcan Temple Maidens were for more than show...didn't anyone else > notice that thye seemed to be lending power to T'Whatsername as she was > re-recording Spock into his own head? They were doing the same thing that Saavik, Sarek and other Vulcans were doing: they were telepathic spectators. The women still LOOKED SILLY. -- "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe