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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.startrek,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Star Trek III (what else? -- contains SPOILERS & QUESTIONS)
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 13:48:09 EDT
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First, I loved this movie.  It *felt* like an episode.  It *felt* like I was
watching a new episode of the ST series and not a movie based on that series,
and for me, that was good.

Now on with the pixie hats, and the asking of silly questions and the making of
silly comments:

1. I was kind of disappointed that T'Pao didn't call Spock "Tspoke" the way she
	did in "Amok Time".  The Vulcan Vestal Virgins were definitely what I
	would call visually disjunctive.

2. Will the Enterprise be regenerated by the Genesis effect?  Since protomatter
	was used in Genesis, isn't the following scenario possible?  David and
	Kruge are regenerated, but due to a time warp caused by the protomatter
	they go back in time to a Los Angeles high school and the streets of
	New York City.  David becomes a nerdy/neo-punk student, and Kruge,
	due to brain damage from the regeneration, becomes a derelict who
	later becomes a cab driver (on Square Pegs and Taxi, respectively).
	Don't you remember Reverend Jim saying "I used to command a spaceship"
	from time to time...

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

4. WHAT ABOUT THE ORGANIAN SPACE TREATY???  Didn't that "treaty", imposed by the
	Organians, mean that ANY violence between the Klingons and the
	Federation would cause the same interference by the Organians as in the
	original episode, or am I misinterpreting the essence of the treaty?

5. Was the opening inset scene (shown in black and white) with Spock dying in
	the chamber talking to Kirk *re-shot*?  His \\// hand didn't slide down
	the glass as I remember it?

6. To add a few of my favorite quotes to Roger's:

	"That's what happens when you miss staff meetings."

	"Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many."

   That last one really got to me.  In a way, as long as we're busy drawing
	analogies to the SW trilogy, "the needs of ..."  quotes from both
	movies are slightly analogous to the trading of "I love you"--"I know"s
	in TESB/ROTJ.

7.  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.
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