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From: ables@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.startrek
Subject: Re: Commentary on "The Search for Spock" (spoilers)
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 11:46:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 11:46:40 1984
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You should read the book to fill in the gaps where things are
not really explained well.  Uhura beamed herself to the Vulcan
embassy after she beamed Kirk and Co. to the Enterprise.  There
she met Sarek and they went to Vulcan.  She came very close to
being arrested in the book, but managed to escape.
They also spend about the first 1/3 of the book setting up the
movie, the movie doesn't start in the book 'till about page 90
or 100 (out of 294 or 297 or something).  This is a lot of good
background on what people are feeling and what they are thinking
about doing next.

I think the next movie is going to be about tracking down the leak
in Starfleet.  Someone mentioned this in passing but it has really
bugged me since seeing the film:  How was it that Genesis became
a galactic political incident in the short time it took Enterprise
to return home??  Even the Klingons know about it!  There's got
to be a leak and/or Klingon spy in Starfleet somewhere.

Someone also mentioned that Genesis wasn't lost since Carol is still
around (she's in the book a little bit, she goes back to Earth and
stays, basicly unimportant stuff).  It seems to me that the first
thing they (Starfleet) would have done when the Enterprise came back
was copy all the stuff about Genesis from it's computer.  After all,
the Enterprise was in the space dock for at least a day or two.
I got the impression that it may have been as much as a week, even
though Scotty said it would take him two to complete the automation
system.  Surely Carol isn't the only person or machine that knows
ANYTHING about Genesis now?!

I liked Christopher Lloyd, he was REAL evil, but I just couldn't
get the Rev. Jim part of him out of my mind, his voice was so much
the same.  It's too bad I watched Taxi.
I like Robin Curtis better than Kirstie Alley as far as looks (as
someone said, she can rub fingers with me anytime she wants, too),
but I do think that Alley is a more believable Romulan/Vulcan.
When she's made up, she has a little harsher facial structure and
it seems to me that a part Romulan wouldn't be quite as humanly
feminine (the Romulan Commander in the series that fell for Spock
seemed to have a little tougher appearance, maybe that's where I
get that feeling from).
A friend of mine noticed in the credits that the guy who played
Maltz was John Larquotte(not spelled right, but hopefully close)
who we remember from "Stripes" as the C.O. of the camp who is
transferred to an Arctic Circle base at the end of the movie.
He is playing one of the lawyers on "Night Court" on Thursdays
on NBC? now.  I haven't seen the movie again, so I'm not sure
if it's him or not, but the name looks the same (but I confuse
French-like names, so I'm not sure).

The needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many!  Bet that
confused the hell outta his pour strained Vulcan mind.
-King
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