From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Title: Wanton Butchery - (nf)
Article-I.D.: inmet.24
Posted: Wed Feb 23 03:23:41 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 06:13:32 1983

#N:inmet:8500001:000:1219
inmet!porges    Feb 18 12:11:00 1983

	As regards eagle!karn's question about NY channel 11's butchery of
S.T. episodes -- first of all it's WPIX not WNEW, but anyone can make a
misteak....no, my point is:  I remember some years ago Ch. 11 showed "A 
Piece of the Action" and cut Kirk's great explanation of the card game
(a bit past the 1/2 hour mark).  Recently I saw it on the SAME channel --
and the explanation is back.  I guess sometimes Paramount sends out new
copies...does that make any sense?  Anybody know what's going on?
	Another bizzare cut -- real trivia -- in "City on the Edge of Forever"
the Captain's Log entry after the titles is something like "One drop of [that
drug, I forget it] can save a man's life, ten times that amount can kill him.
Dr. McCoy has had 100 times that amount....."  For some reason Ch. 11 cuts
out the middle -- "One drop of [drug] can save a man's life -- Dr. McCoy has
had 100 times that amount..."  What gets me is that this cut saves about a
second and a half -- why do they hack up sentences like this?  I suppose if
they cut 15 clauses like this they can sell 30 seconds of Data Processing
School ads, but really....
					-- Don Porges
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