Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!barnett From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Bug in "The Enemy Within"? Message-ID: <2325@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 12:09:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2325 Posted: Thu Jun 21 12:09:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 10:57:39 EDT References: <138@lpi3230.UUCP> <1883@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 29 [ --- ] >When was the first shuttlecraft introduced? Possibly they hadn't >conceived of one yet. >-- > Peter Merchant Funny, but I just looked that up in my well thumbed Concordance. Shuttlecraft first showed up about five or six episodes after "The Enemy Within," in an episode called (surprise) "Galileo 7." You may remember this as the one in which Spock and several others are marooned on a planet where *nothing* follows the dictates of logic, leaving Spock in quite a quandry when his imeccably logical orders wind up getting several crewmen killed. The opinion I've heard most frequently put forward about "The Enemy Within," (on the net) is that if they *had* just sent down a shuttle to pick up Sulu and the gang, the episode would have been a lot less gripping. That's probably as good an expanation as any. I don't buy that they hadn't been thought up at this point: if that's true, why did the model of the Enterprise have that shuttle bay stuck on the back? "It's a humongous SPACE WALRUS!" Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett