What issue was this, Old? I have a large collection of FF mags in the cupboard but it's years since I've read them!
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50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread
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I linked to it in the title of my previous post. #253, Apr. 1983, part of the "exploring the Negative Zone" storyline.
In the first draft script dated August 2,1968, Spock attempts to address this. In Act III, after Kirk and Spock beam back to the Enterprise and leave McCoy on Yonada, Spock says this to Kirk on the bridge:
SPOCK
The asteroid ship is fully automated. The people had all memory of being
on a space ship removed from their minds to make such a long trip possible...
to keep them from going mad... fighting among themselves.
And then later in Act III, when Natira asks Kirk in the Oracle room why the creators (called the builders in the first draft) would keep the people in darkness, Spock responds with:
SPOCK
Because no people could have stood the strain of knowing. In a trip of ten
thousand years or more, the generations would have gone mad... fought,
killed, bred too rapidly... destroyed themselves.
A pity, the episode could easily have ditched a beat or two of either of McCoy's subplots to squeeze in those helpful lines.
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Presumably people who built the ship got on the ship, and then why wouldn't they have taught some in the next generation how to run, or at least fix the ship.
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The persons who built the ship were engineers, not politicians. They could have feared that some of those politicians on board could have convinced the people to waste the resources of the ship regardless of reason and logic... just as politicians like Trump do with the people that elected them. It's not that far fetched.
Good episode. Nice for McCoy to get some attention. Early in the episode when Kirk tells McCoy that they do not need him as part of the landing party but McCoy insists that he can do it, I wonder what Spock must have been thinking? Something must have been up? Also, you can see the friendship between Spock and McCoy when Spock first learns of McCoy's weakened condition. They are friends but do not want anybody to know it, even themselves. Their relationship is one of my favorite dynamics of the series.
McCoy even stands up for Spock against Mr.Boma in The Galileo 7 episode while they're stranded on Taurus II although he gets the odd quip in himself as well! 
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The Great Bird sure had a thing for flogging medallions...
Does it also mention that Yonadans have just discovered Disco music when explaining McCoy's outfit?
@The Old Mixer The screenshot for ITNTIB looks like Spock is taking a selfie.
Too bad TNG's "Homeward" didn't check the events of For the world etc. "Hey, if it's good enough for the Yonadans, it's good enough for the Boraalans."
Too bad TNG's "Homeward" didn't check the events of For the world etc. "Hey, if it's good enough for the Yonadans, it's good enough for the Boraalans."
Homeward didn't even check what the Prime Directive is supposed to be about and it's all about that...
Hmm I thought McCoy was pretty horrible to Spock in Galileo 7.McCoy even stands up for Spock against Mr.Boma in The Galileo 7 episode while they're stranded on Taurus II although he gets the odd quip in himself as well!
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I wouldn't have thought them friends from that episode.
McCoy was his usual bitchy self under pressure until after Spock burns the fuel and McCoy appreciates the gesture.
I'm sure he has LOTS of Vulcan Friends.
I'm sure he has LOTS of Vulcan Friends.
Not according to known facts about Spock in TOS!
JB
He's gotten a LITTLE better at it.Since you're talking about Galileo Seven, 'tis appropriate that tomorrow's episode also features Spock in command.
It's funny, the only time Spock isn't shown as hyper-competent is when the central plot of the story is "SPOCK IS IN COMMAND". THEN everybody worries about him.
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