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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
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Subject: Re: Bug in "The Enemy Within"?
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 12:09:10 EDT
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>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

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