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Maurice · October 3 2012, 05:13 AM

Bailey is in no way a Mary Sue character.

The story of Corbomite is cliche only in that elements of it were repeated so often afterwards. I'm betting most audiences at the time never saw the reveal coming.

October 3 2012, 05:13 AM	#27
Maurice Rear Admiral Location: Maurice in San Francisco	Re: Joel Revisits TOS.... Bailey is in no way a Mary Sue character. The story of Corbomite is cliche only in that elements of it were repeated so often afterwards. I'm betting most audiences at the time never saw the reveal coming. __________________ * * * "Star Trek…at times sparkled with true ingenuity, and pure science fiction approaches, and at other times was more carnival like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form." —Rod Serling, 1970"