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From: rafe@reed.UUCP (Rafe Needleman)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kirk Fight Scenes
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 18:58:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 18:58:58 1985
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[I'm a doctor, not a line-eater!]

Patrick,

Well, there's no denying that Kirk's full-body flying block in "Tomorrow
Is Yesterday" was a thing of beauty, but REALLY, that was Kirk versus
three 20th-century minions.  Hardly fair odds, for them.

I think the more impressive scenes are when Kirk takes on people (or 
aliens) of obviously superior abilities.  For example, in "Space Seed",
first we see Kahn mold Kirk's phaser into Silly-Putty, but after Kahn
says (in his suave Mediteranian accent) "I have five times your strength,"
Kirk pummels him into jelly with a styrofoam crowbar!

My favorite confrontation scene ("fight" is such an ugly word) is from
"The Paradise Syndrome."  Kirk figures that in order to snap Spock out
of his spore-induced muntinous frivolity, he must get him angry.  REALLY
angry.  Apparently the way to do this is to tell Spock his "father was a
computer and your mother a library."  Ooh!  

-Rafe  (rafe@reed)

"I don't like that.  I don't think I ever did.  Now I'm sure."   -Spock