Star Trek-RM: The Lights of Zetar… Grading/Discussion

[cooleddie74]

In some of the shots of Mira, you can still see the original 'Lights' effect with the new, CG one superimposed over the top of it.

Agreed. But it doesn't detract, really. Just makes it look like there are more lights and things are "busier."

 

[Kryton]

There was a certain amount of ... possibilitly in the fullness of engaging in that exchange. I SO hope she shows up on Boston Legal.

 

[Cyrus]

So, how many Zetar dudes were there? Spock said 10, but Zetars themselves said 100.

 

[Timo]

I'd like to turn this writer screwup into a scifi concept: it takes ten Zetarians to establish one "distinct life unit" like the ones Spock observed.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[payndz201]

Didn't they say there were 100 when they left Zetar, but now they're down to the last ten? I'd need to check the episode, but I'm sure a goof that obvious wouldn't have got through - even in season 3.

 

[Kryton]

There are FOUR lights!

Oh, my bad...wrong series.

 

[Timo]

Didn't they say there were 100 when they left Zetar, but now they're down to the last ten?

No such joy:

Kirk: "Then what are you? "
Shiny lights in Ms Romaine: "The desires, the hopes, the mind and the will of the last hundred of Zetar."

It is of course possible that this is how they continue to identify themselves even after 90 of them have died: the minds of the ninety are gone, but their desires, hopes and will live in the remaining ten. But taken literally, the Zetarians never confess to having lost anybody after the original calamity that forced them to become noncorporeal.

Or perhaps there were just 100 Zetarians left at the hour of armageddon, and these ten were chosen to carry on while the other 90 never became noncorporeal? Or perhaps only 100 Zetarians out of a much larger whole were considered worthy of having their ideals carried on by The Ten?

Without such assumptions, it is a clear-cut YATI, although not a particularly damning one.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[cooleddie74]

There are FOUR lights!

Oh, my bad...wrong series.

"I am Lightcountus of Zetar...from this day forward...your electrical sockets...will service...US."