Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Star Trek III Message-ID: <2086@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-May-85 19:55:53 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2086 Posted: Thu May 23 19:55:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 24-May-85 05:56:12 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 28 From: lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Steve Lionel) > Date: Mon 20 May 85 00:45:15-PDT > From: Mark Crispin > Subject: Star Dreck III: The Search for Spook > > I just bought the LaserDisc version of this. Has anybody > noticed any of these really glaring flaws: > . When the Klingons are cloaked and getting ready to attack the > Enterprise, its distance is reported as being 5000 kilograms(!!) > . How, with Saavik on board, could Kirk have innocently buried > Spock in space without knowing any better? It just so happens that I rented the tape of ST3 the other day, having missed it in the theatre. I recall the "5000 kilograms" as actually being something similar in sound, but not quite as ridiculous. One presumes that the lesson of Battlestar Galactica (and Star Wars) had been learned. As for Saavik not telling Kirk, perhaps only male Vulcans know it? This is hardly the most serious inconsistency in the story. For example, when Kirk shouts the Klingon equivalent of "Beam me up, Scotty", how is the Klingon transporter operator supposed to know that he is to pick up both Kirk and Spock II? And just how did Kirk's people overpower the Klingons on board with no weapons? Also, wouldn't you be a bit nervous taking a Klingon ship right into Federation territory and landing it (!!!) on Vulcan? I could go on and on. The movie went nowhere, and was pretty boring. Steve Lionel