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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek III
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Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 18:17:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 18:17:23 1984
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>	I was kind of disappointed that T'Pao [sic] didn't call Spock
>	... the way she did in "Amok Time".  The Vulcan Vestal Virgins
>	were definitely what I would call visually disjunctive.

That was T'Lar, not T'Pau.  I break up laughing now when I see the VVV's
in what should be a very serious scene.

>	Was it EXACTLY the same destruct sequence used in "Let That Be
>	Your Last Battlefield"?

Yes, precisely, with Scott doing Spock's lines and Chekov doing Scott's.

>	Was the opening inset scene (shown in black and white) with Spock
>	dying in the chamber talking to Kirk *re-shot*?

Not a frame, although I wouldn't discount the possibility that Nimoy decided
to use some angles which were saved but not edited into ST2.

>	In "Menagerie", when Spock showed the footage of the Enterprise under
>	Pike, the "film" was stopped with someone exclaiming "No starship keeps
>	(kept?) such records!" Do they do so "now" (in ST3 time)? (Apparently)
>	I'm referring to Kirk's playback of the scene from ST2 in engineering.

What was said in that episode was that no starship kept such DETAILED records.
I think we can assume starships have continuously running recorders which
normally record only the most abstract, high-level data about the starship's
functions but kicks in much more detailed recordings when on alert.  This
would be what would go in the recorder-markers dispatched from time to time.
-- 
"The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain."
	Roger Noe			ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe