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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.tv,net.startrek
Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al
Message-ID: <396@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 04:17:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 04:17:44 1985
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>From: thornton@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC468)
>Organization: Department of Computing, Kings College, University of London.
>Message-ID: <178@westo.kcl-cs.UUCP>
>	
>		Maya's shape changeing ability is not original. Captain
>	Garth, from STAR TREK's WHOM GODS DESTROY had a similar ability
>	limited to humanoid forms. He could change into an alien (SPOCK)
>	and must have physically changed to assume the voice. Here the
>	ability was called 'CELLULAR REMETAMORPHOSIS'. If one show can
>	get away with that, why did Maya come in for so much stick?

Captain Garth was only shown changing into human or human-like sentient
forms. This is the distinction between him and Maya.

Maya was shown changing into everything from very non-human aliens to an
orange tree. She could also change into beings of equally varying sizes.

As others have pointed out in this group, where does the excess energy go
when she turns into a fly? By avoiding such drastic form changes, Garth is
a much more plausible character.


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