From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: orion@dslnorthwest.net
Subject: Re: Views on the Viewer?
On Nov 3, 7:38aam, "Steven L." <sdlit...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Ron" <or...@dslnorthwest.net> wrote in message
> news:dd59a94e-fcf2-4856-b1c9-984867e1148d@u37g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
> > On Nov 2, 8:58 am, "Steven L." <sdlit...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > "Graeme" <graemec...@aol.com> wrote in message
> > >news:55abff54-80b6-48cf-978d-f098c4cb776a@s10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
> > > > With Balok, they didn't specifically say, but I'd assumed that Spock had
> > > > intercepted a visual message from Balok to his home base.
> > > I didn't think so,
> > > because neither Uhura nor Spock mentioned any messages.
> > > (Whereas later in the ep, Uhura intercepts just such a message.)
> > Uhura didn't get anything--- it was Bailey, the navigator, who pulled
> > that funky ear piece out of nowhere in his console and picked up the
> > message. I always thought that was bizarre but they never did it
> > again.
> [later in the episode...]
> UHURA: a"A signal, Captain.
> It's very weak.
> It's Balok.
> It's a distress signal to the Fesarius.
> His engines...are out...
> His life-sustaining system
> isn't operating.
> The message is repeating, sir."
> KIRK: "Any reply?"
> UHURA: "Negative. His signal is growing weak.
> Sir, I doubt the mother ship heard it."
> -- Steven L.- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
That was the *second* message: the very first one Bailey received
which makes you wonder what th hell was going on there and why does a
navigator have a communications ear piece in the first place?
Ron
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