From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Stevenson.WBST@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Star Trek II
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1677
Posted: Tue Jun  8 10:40:28 1982
Received: Wed Jun  9 01:37:27 1982

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	"What ever happened to those nice boys who ran the
	Enterprise fifteen years ago?"

They're going right on doing what they've always done:


1. Saavik: "You lied!"
   Spock: "I exaggerated."
   Spock already proved he's capable of "exaggeration" (and explained
   why) in "The Enterprise Incident".

2. McCoy bought bootleg Romulan ale; he didn't smuggle it himself.
   In various Trek episodes he prescribed booze for "medicinal
   purposes", as did Dr. Boyce before him.  (I think it was Dr.
   Boyce who "prescribed" for Captain Pike in "The Cage"/"The
   Menagerie" -- or was Boyce the doctor in "Where No Man Has
   Gone Before"?)

3. There is no such thing as an "illegitimate child"; there are only
   "illegitimate" parents.  Kirk could have been married to Carol
   Marcus at the time of David's birth -- there may be such things
   as temporary "contract" marriages in that era.  The fact that Kirk
   married Miramanee (and got her pregnant) in "The Paradise
   Syndrome" seems to indicate that he's less than totally averse
   to marriage and children.

4. Ok, you've got me there.  The looks on Kirk's, Scotty's, and
   McCoy's faces certainly indicated that Scotty had caught something
   embarassing.  (But is VD any more embarassing than athlete's foot
   in the 23rd century?  Maybe Scotty's embarassing medical problem
   was dandruff - any Head & Shoulders commercial I've ever seen
   implied that that's the REALLY disgusting "social disease".)  Scotty
   was always portrayed as being a bit of a hall-raiser -- when he
   could be forced into spending time away from his engines, that is.
   He displayed a definite propensity for alcoholic beverages in "The
   Tholian Web" and "By Any Other Name", to mention a couple,
   called himself "an old Glasgow pub-crawler" in "Wolf in the Fold",
   and threw the first punch in the barroom brawl in "The Trouble
   With Tribbles".

			Bill
			("Picky, picky, picky!" screams the audience.)