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 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER****** ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* "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.)