From: utzoo!decvax!aps
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Title: Re: Spock"s casket
Article-I.D.: decvax.282
Posted: Fri Sep 10 14:45:50 1982
Received: Sat Sep 11 01:47:55 1982
References: ixn5c.271

I did not see the casket opening.  I did notice with surprise that it
was amazingly unscathed for something entering through some form of
atmosphere and then impacting on the surface.

It stuck me when I first saw the movie (I have seen it twice (20 for SW))
that they would not have wasted the footage on the casket if they didn't
intend on "following up" in a later movie.  At any rate, I suspect that
Spock's casket could have some been effected by the last phases of the
Genesis effect that was caused by Kahn's suicide.
	aps.