Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!lmaher From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <5800018@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.5800018 Posted: Tue Jun 19 01:14:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:55:40 EDT References: <364@astrovax.UUCP> Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:astrovax:-36400:uokvax:5800018:37777777600:1535 Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher Jun 19 00:14:00 1984 #R:astrovax:-36400:uokvax:5800018:37777777600:1535 uokvax!lmaher Jun 19 00:14:00 1984 I feel that astrovax!ks's criticisms of ST3 were valid, although I don't agree with them. Certainly Kirk should be in no trouble with the Federation, see earlier postings by me and some other enlightened individual for details. I do agree that the destruction of the Enterprise was gratuitous. Perhaps they just did it for the effects. Perhaps ST4 will be "The Search for the Enterprise" :-) I don't think Scotty should be a basket case. He loved the ship, but better by far a valiant death and a flaming pyre than to be put out to pasture, or used for orbital storage or as a museum for land- lubbers and bureacrats who wouldn't recognize the Final Frontier if they tripped over it. You can lose a loved one and still go on. A man should shoot his own dog, and a captain should scuttle his own ship. It may be reading too much into the script, but I like to think Kirk destroyed the ship rather than let it fall into the wrong hands (the Federation's :-). I would love to ask Shatner if that's true, but I would hate to be told that no, they just blew it up because the SFX looked so good. I do hope that the submitter who said the Excelsior was made to look ugly was correct, and that the New Enterprise will be as graceful as the old. I don't like the Warp 60 Trans-warp, and hope it dies a permanent death. That's a far more serious threat to the Klingons than Genesis ever could be. Carl (formerly uok!crigney) ..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher ..!duke!uok!uokvax!lmaher