From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!genradbo!mitccc!svw Newsgroups: net.startrek Title: The reason for mistakes Article-I.D.: mitccc.359 Posted: Sun Feb 20 00:16:41 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 02:09:25 1983 James Doohan (who played Scott) spoke here at MIT a coupla weeks back; he said that the reasons for all the sciences mistkes and technical inconsistancies in the show were because the creative staff (Roddenberry included) had no idea they would be taken to task. Honestly, if you had a week to produce a show in which every prop had to be custon made, would YOU have put more than a few moments thought into where to put an pod-ejection button? --- Ensign Applejack Spinelli U.S.S. Yorktown Quadrant 13