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From: cm@unc.UUCP (Chuck Mosher)
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Subject: Star Trek Question (and answer!)
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:46:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 16:46:33 1985
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I couldn't mail to you either, Jeff.

>(paraphrased) which episode was it where Spock "wiped" Jim's memory
>of a true love affair.

Sorry Susan, but you're wrong.

It was "The Paradise Syndrome", and I think it was the cruelest
thing Spock could have done.  Aside from the fact that the
Enterprise's medical facilities would certainly have been
adequate to the task of saving Miramane (sp?) I for one believe
that such a central, personal, and growing experience for Kirk 
was something he should not have been robbed of, even at the 
expense of a protracted period of mourning.  

I remember being devastated at the end of the episode (which
is why I remember it so well!) that Kirk was robbed of what 
was probably the most wonderful time of his life.  Of course 
if he hadn't, he probably would have realized that he was 
actually running away from his own fear of commitment to 
relationships in being the Captain of a star ship and would 
have resigned his commission and sought another true love 
instead of "new life and new civilizations"!  :-)

				Chuck Mosher
				cm@unc


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