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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: ST III Questions/Comments -- SPOILER
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Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 23:18:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  3 23:18:40 1984
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Forgive me if these have been brought up already, but I
have been skipping the spoilers until having seen the movie.

1)  How come Savik didn't know to bring Spock back to Vulcan
    at the end of ST II?  If she did, why did she let Kirk
    leave him on Genesis?

2)  Why didn't Starfleet use the prefix code to stop Kirk
    from stealing the Enterprise?

3)  What was the timespan of ST II?  It didn't seem very long
    at all.  Recall that the Enterprise had just been refitted.
    Why, all of a sudden, is it not going to be refitted?  It's
    not like it's been out for years, after all, just one short
    journey since a major overhaul.  Makes the overhaul go to waste.

4)  When the Enterprise was entering Spacedock, and they showed
    the lounge and its patrons ooo'ing and ah'ing, they showed
    one woman's face; she was shaking her head.  Who was she, and
    what was her purpose in the movie?  I thought then that she
    was some higher-up, disgusted with what Kirk had done to the
    ship, and about to take away his command; I was surprised to
    find out she had no further part in the movie.  It left sort
    of a hole.

A few general comments now.

I liked the movie a lot, but it seemed very Vaudevillish for a
ST movie; I like humor, but maybe they put in too much for this
type of film.  In particular, the captains of the Excelsior and
the Grissom were much too corny.  I didn't like them at all.

James Doohan seems to have gained a lot of weight.  Also, he
and DeForest Kelley looked much older than in ST II.  As for
DeForest, his age appearance kept going back and forth in
the film (from young to old).

I found myself much more upset by the death of David and the
destruction of the Enterprise than I was by Spock's death.
Maybe it's because I knew that Spock was going to die, but,
then again, I knew the Enterprise would be destroyed.  When
it was destroyed, I let out a big yelp.  David's death, though,
really shocked me.  Not so much when it happened as it did
today, one day later.  It really hit me tonight; I can't really
describe it, bit I feel sickened (not that they did it in the
movie, but that the Klingons killed him) and very grievous.
I can't get that scene out of my mind.

Overall, I liked it a lot.  I liked ST II better (more action,
more believable, and I think more entertaining), but I liked
ST III a lot.