I believe he refers to unknown things in The Man Trap and Mudd's Women(?) as well. Regardless, that was a practice that was dropped after just a few episodes. If one really wants to justify you can just imagine that he was recording those logs after the fact.
The Lights of Zetar
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I believe he refers to unknown things in The Man Trap and Mudd's Women(?) as well. Regardless, that was a practice that was dropped after just a few episodes. If one really wants to justify you can just imagine that he was recording those logs after the fact.
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I thought it was a pretty reasonable explanation actually. And it makes the Zetarans intense desire to find a corporeal body to live in again far more reasonable and understandable (though far from acceptable).
Though I have a reservation.
Once Mira Romaine was floating in the pressure chamber, didn't they start with something like two atmosphers and increased by "one atmosphere per second"?
By my timing, Romaine was in the chamber for just short of two minutes which means she should've been subject to something like over ONE HUNDRED TIMES Earth atmospheric pressure by the time the Zetarans died.
Is there any remote way that a person can withstand 1,470 lbs. of pressure per square inch on their bodies
It looks like the answer is yes--for just a short time:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/conghand/mannedev.htm
Interesting.
Of course, one might infer that while the Zetarans are within her, they are acting to reinforce Romaine's strength and endurance (as it was inferred earlier that while possessed Romaine had enough strength to "kill us all" in the words of McCoy).
Then Romaine would've only had to endure the extreme pressure in the seconds after the Zetarans were destroyed before Spock began reducing it.
Perhaps her hair was simply *still* hanging down from when it had been affected by gravity. Assuming she remained relatively motionless, I think her hair would have continued to remain hanging down relatively motionless too, even after the gravity was neutralized--unless it had been set in motion somehow.
As I recall, he says, "Captain's log, supplemental." The word "supplemental" implies that that part was added later. It makes sense, then.
Why was she "floating" in the first place? Why was it necessary to neutralize gravity in the chamber as well as increasing atmospheric pressure?
In "The Enemy Within" and "The Man Trap," Kirk specifically uses the past tense, indicating he's describing events of some time earlier.
Depending a bit on what sort of shampoo she used that morning, each individual hair in her head would probably repel each other by virtue of static electricity, quickly creating the ultimate Afro look...
There could be many uses for a pressure chamber aboard a starship. Creating an overpressure of oxygen is a commonly used treatment for extensive burns; a badly burned patient would probably benefit greatly from hovering freely, out of all physical contact. Possibly McCoy just forgot to un-check that particular box before clicking "go" on the oxygen overpressure procedure?
Timo Saloniemi
Knight Templar
Commodore
Actually, IIRC it was Kirk who said to Spock "neutralize gravity" before they started pressurizing the chamber.
I figured it was as McCoy said a moment later "weightlessness has become their natural state! They're getting stronger!" that Kirk wanted the Zetarans to "get comfortable" for a moment before he started hitting them with the high pressure.
Heh, that's a good save! Not a fumble at all on part of our heroes, but a clever ploy that gets even the nitpickers confused at first. 
Kirk might even have been thinking in terms of fooling the Zetarians into believing (subconsciously, despite what their reason told them) that they were surrounded by their natural environment, that is, open space - in which case they would instinctively seek to move from Romaine's body to that environment in search of safety. If they still believed they were surrounded by the hostile environment of a starship, they would not have that instinct.
Timo Saloniemi
Kirk might even have been thinking in terms of fooling the Zetarians into believing (subconsciously, despite what their reason told them) that they were surrounded by their natural environment, that is, open space - in which case they would instinctively seek to move from Romaine's body to that environment in search of safety. If they still believed they were surrounded by the hostile environment of a starship, they would not have that instinct.
Timo Saloniemi
Knight Templar
Commodore
Heh, that's a good save! Not a fumble at all on part of our heroes, but a clever ploy that gets even the nitpickers confused at first.
Kirk might even have been thinking in terms of fooling the Zetarians into believing (subconsciously, despite what their reason told them) that they were surrounded by their natural environment, that is, open space - in which case they would instinctively seek to move from Romaine's body to that environment in search of safety. If they still believed they were surrounded by the hostile environment of a starship, they would not have that instinct.
Timo Saloniemi
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