Nothing. Because it never made a ton of sense to begin with.
MIRI-cannibals??
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Nothing. Because it never made a ton of sense to begin with.
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Explain to me exactly why doesn't it make sense.
Explain to me exactly why doesn't it make sense.
Didn't make it into the final cut, but it did make it into the Blish adaptation.
Better still if Balok showed up for some reason.
Just to be clear, this scene, from the final draft, was not shot because it wasn't in the script that went before the cameras. The "shooting" draft script was the revised final dated August 18,1966. Blish obviously was not working from the revised final draft script when he wrote his adaptation of "Miri."
Well, for one thing...Jahn, Miri and some other kid happen to hijack a Starfleet ship and go on a rampage with it?
And it's not surprising that it doesn't fit with the novelverse continuity, since at the time it was written, there wasn't any. Plus, the author was ordered to remove all references to Miri's world being a duplicate of Earth (for reasons I have yet to determine).
Yes, the Blish novelization is MUCH different from the TOS episode.
Well, for one thing...Jahn, Miri and some other kid happen to hijack a Starfleet ship and go on a rampage with it?
And it's not surprising that it doesn't fit with the novelverse continuity, since at the time it was written, there wasn't any. Plus, the author was ordered to remove all references to Miri's world being a duplicate of Earth (for reasons I have yet to determine).
Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
If it were made today, sure. But when originally aired, no. Spam and Twinkies last forever.
Another thing Blish had, that the episode-as-filmed-and-aired didn't, as I recall, was a reference to the portable biocomputer being the "cat brain" model.
That's neither in the final draft nor the revised final draft. I think that's a Blish creation.
Couple of points:
Unlike the real world, cannibalism between the Onlies is a non-renewable resource. You can't breed more Onlies. Every death is one step closer to the extinction of their species. Granted, canned food is also non-renewable in this instance, but there are probably way more cans than people. And yeah, cans would go bad in less than 300 years, but...
The Life Prolongation Project was what caused the kids to live 300+ years. In addition to massively slowing down the aging process, the Onlies perhaps didn't have to eat so much, and could tolerate and metabolize all sorts of things we can't imagine. Like expired food stuffs, or even random trees, bushes, bricks and mortar, who knows.
Unlike the real world, cannibalism between the Onlies is a non-renewable resource. You can't breed more Onlies. Every death is one step closer to the extinction of their species. Granted, canned food is also non-renewable in this instance, but there are probably way more cans than people. And yeah, cans would go bad in less than 300 years, but...
The Life Prolongation Project was what caused the kids to live 300+ years. In addition to massively slowing down the aging process, the Onlies perhaps didn't have to eat so much, and could tolerate and metabolize all sorts of things we can't imagine. Like expired food stuffs, or even random trees, bushes, bricks and mortar, who knows.
Or in any of the early drafts I have read . . . and I have actually looked for this!
I guess that is a little Blish joke, describing a biocomputer, a computer for biologial research and calculations, as a biological computer using a biological brain to calculate.
M'Ress learns this and thinks, "You monsters!"
I'm not certain that M'Ress would considered a catlike sub intelligent critter from another planet to be any sort of close relative, anymore than you would consider a sub intelligent apelike critter from another planet be any sort of close relative.
In my mind it was only 30 years not 300. I can't see food, clothing, shelter staying around for 300 years.
Well maybe farming kids could work the orchards and milk cows for 300 years for a small group.
I also can't see the older kids having the patience for 300 years of looking after infants who never age.
I suppose all the babies would have died of neglect..
Well maybe farming kids could work the orchards and milk cows for 300 years for a small group.
I also can't see the older kids having the patience for 300 years of looking after infants who never age.
I suppose all the babies would have died of neglect..
Maybe they didn't need food, or needed much-much less food than we do?
How can Miri have been acting so sexually innocent, when it's likely that she had eaten for dinner buckets and buckets of sex organs over the last few centuries? Maybe she was sexually immature because she did not want to have sex with her food supply?
(Normally it's the other way around: We do not want to eat our sex supply.)
How can Miri have been acting so sexually innocent, when it's likely that she had eaten for dinner buckets and buckets of sex organs over the last few centuries? Maybe she was sexually immature because she did not want to have sex with her food supply?
(Normally it's the other way around: We do not want to eat our sex supply.)
....or his alter ego.
And people thought shoulder pads weren't big until the 1980s?
Nicely remastered photo. From the Roddenberry Vault, I presume... Kept the neg in a proper storage environment and had the print hanging in a picture frame on the wall next to his wife and others.
From recollection, I thought there was dialogue reflecting on food supplies running low. Kirk alluded to it in a Captain's Log as a post-commercial recap, so there were stocks of stored and preserved food items. Perishables still go bad over time, but it's 300 years in the future and developments may have taken place... was there electricity for a refrigerator? Or maybe all they ate were twinkies... Time for a rewatch on my part...
And later to the kids in what's a proper frightening speech:
Captain Kirk said:
Maybe the things that cause the normal degradation and "rot" of foodstuffs and natural fibers was killed by the new disease, it could have been part of how it was supposed to work. A virus that kills off the disease killing bacteria, but then it also kills off the people, too.