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 ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges