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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 01:14:00 1984
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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