Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: inconsistencies Message-ID: <807@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 18:36:16 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.807 Posted: Fri Mar 29 18:36:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 02:20:00 EST References: <248@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: STRONGARM COLLECTION AGENCY: We have no slogan Lines: 18 > Does anyone out there know of any inconsistencies in the various episodes? > A friend pointed out a pretty blatant one a fews days ago: > "I, Mudd" > Scenario: Enterprise taken to android planet where Harry Mudd is. > Androids beam down all members of the enterprise and take over > ship. > Ingenious Kirk and officers short circuit all the androids. > > Question: How do they get back up to the enterprise? Nobody is on board so > nobody can beam them up, and all the androids have short-circuited so they > can't be programmed to do it. Another inconsistency in the same episode relates to Norman's presence on the Enterprise. If he's light years away on a starship, who's "coordinating" the androids? -- "Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr