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From: dorettas@iddic.UUCP (Doretta Schrock)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek
Subject: Re: Archetypal episodes
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 19:07:16 EST
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> 	Isn't it funny how the same old themes keep rearing their heads
> (ugly or otherwise) in popular sf tv shows. It occured to me that one could
> probably "distil" the most typical of these to form a resulting "gestalt"
> episode from the essence.
> 	Take, for example, the following gestalt "Star Trek": 
...

Or how about this formula, from the same series:

:00  opening credits
:02  setting described
:04  problem-of-the-week portrayed
:20  initial solution well under way
:31  Kirk (sometimes Spock or McCoy or Scotty) discovers the *REAL*
	nature of the problem, which is impossible to solve
:40  Principal (usually Kirk or Spock) proposes radical solution
:47  Radical solution attempted...with only seconds to spare
:55  Solution works perfectly; all counters reset to normal
:58  Witticism by principal (usually Kirk)
:59  closing credits

This formula works unbelievably well, within a few minutes either way.
It works best with Star Trek, though similar ones (like the Brady Bunch
"who has a developmental problem that we can solve in a half-hour" disease)
can easily be recognized.

		Mike Sellers  <-- note the name difference from above