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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al
Message-ID: <158@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 03:23:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: utflis.158
Posted: Sun Jun 23 03:23:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 10:30:30 EDT
References: <234@dcl-cs.UUCP> <278@ucdavis.UUCP> <178@westo.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <178@westo.kcl-cs.UUCP> thornton@westo.UUCP (znac468) writes:
>		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. .....
>	                                   .......     If one show can
>	get away with that, why did Maya come in for so much stick?
>					Andy T.

I remember in one episode Maya and Tony were stuck in an Eagle which
was running out of oxygen .  Our ever resourceful Maya saved the 
day by turning into a *PLANT* of all things. (breathing *in*
the CO2 and breathing *out* O2)  Somebody also pointed out that
there is a problem of mass conservation when she turns into a mouse
and then a 10-foot alien.

But hey, don't get me wrong; I *liked* the show!
It was entertaining when you don't pick over the scientific and technical
details.

-- 
Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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