Daggar of the mind - motivation
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Thanks for the link--that explains all one would need to know about Adams' motives.
As far as the episode goes, we never found out that Adams would have experimented on innocent people. Supposedly, those were in extremely short supply at Tantalus V!
I could see Adams thinking that with enough neutralizing, the people making trouble would simply stop being a nuisance. With them unable to tell their side of the story (van Gelder couldn't, not until Vulcan mystique saved the day), Adams could think up all sorts of excuses: "A lamentable accident indeed!"; "He tried to attack me!"; "He confessed to being a Klingon spy before committing this brain-suicide! Poor man - I wonder if he really was one, or merely deeply disturbed?".
It really doesn't appear that Adams would have been a man with a master plan. Mad scientists in stories like this seldom are - they just want to do their thing, but sometimes the electrified chicken wire fence fails to keep the villagers away.
Timo Saloniemi
I could see Adams thinking that with enough neutralizing, the people making trouble would simply stop being a nuisance. With them unable to tell their side of the story (van Gelder couldn't, not until Vulcan mystique saved the day), Adams could think up all sorts of excuses: "A lamentable accident indeed!"; "He tried to attack me!"; "He confessed to being a Klingon spy before committing this brain-suicide! Poor man - I wonder if he really was one, or merely deeply disturbed?".
It really doesn't appear that Adams would have been a man with a master plan. Mad scientists in stories like this seldom are - they just want to do their thing, but sometimes the electrified chicken wire fence fails to keep the villagers away.
Timo Saloniemi
The benefits of a large a/c duct are clear in this screen cap
So, I just watched shore leave. Now this is going to sound...er... Creepy.... But when yeoman barrows tunic is ripped there is no under garment shown. But I just happen to notice that the lovely ms Noel seems to have some sort of camisole showing in this shot. Not that I stare at women's cleavage (well, I may look, but I don't stare). The only undergarments I recall seeing were in JJs version. Wonder if the costume department were a bit worried about...er....showing a bit too much in these shots.
The benefits of a large a/c duct are clear in this screen cap
This photo neatly sums up any and all motivations regarding this episode.
Air vents were sized (as with all good air vents) to the good doctors cleavage shots.
In a secure facility one puts bars or grids of wire across vents large enough for someone to move inside them. These are spaced every few feet. This is actually done now. In a hospital where patients were involuntarily confined I would expect sensors as well.
Sure, given time and tools someone could get past such a defense, but the idea is that this delays them until your guards notice the problem and deal with it.
Sure, given time and tools someone could get past such a defense, but the idea is that this delays them until your guards notice the problem and deal with it.
To be fair, this wasn't supposed to be where Dr. Adams kept the patients. The room was actually referred to as "[Kirk's] own quarters", i.e. a guest suite of some sort.
Sure, it might have been nice to have security measures in place at guest quarters, too - but not vitally necessary, nor realistically likely. And if the actual treatment and containment spaces had their access routes (including ventilation shafts) suitably secured, then the power distribution center wouldn't need its own measures, either.
Timo Saloniemi
Sure, it might have been nice to have security measures in place at guest quarters, too - but not vitally necessary, nor realistically likely. And if the actual treatment and containment spaces had their access routes (including ventilation shafts) suitably secured, then the power distribution center wouldn't need its own measures, either.
Timo Saloniemi
^Didn't I say something like that on the last page?
Ah, quite true. It just seems the fact that Kirk was not in a holding cell is not being generally recognized here... I guess we can expect exactly this sort of carelessness from somebody who doesn't really consider himself evil and has no experience in proper villainy!
The place does appear to be a high security fortress: anti-beaming forcefields are a plot point, and TOS-R shows the mother of all moats isolating the installation. We should expect top-notch internal security arrangements to exist; it's just that Adams isn't making proper use of them with Kirk and Noel.
Timo Saloniemi
The place does appear to be a high security fortress: anti-beaming forcefields are a plot point, and TOS-R shows the mother of all moats isolating the installation. We should expect top-notch internal security arrangements to exist; it's just that Adams isn't making proper use of them with Kirk and Noel.
Timo Saloniemi
