I also don't recall seeing any room for the shuttlecraft to set down, and somehow, I don't think those puppies can hover particularly well, especially in high winds.
WTF, Kirk?
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The crew is given "landing party" rotations, so they all get experience doing it. I think that's pretty much the simplest explanation, if there's not a strong technical reason (like Scotty having experience with time ripple phenomenon).
As for McCoy being restrained after being neck-pinched, he was resting "comfortably" against a rock, while the landing party marveled at the Guardian. Anyone previously subdued with a Vulcan neck pinch would be out for a long while, perhaps an hour or more. Nobody expected McCoy to wake up and then run past them into the gateway.
As for McCoy being restrained after being neck-pinched, he was resting "comfortably" against a rock, while the landing party marveled at the Guardian. Anyone previously subdued with a Vulcan neck pinch would be out for a long while, perhaps an hour or more. Nobody expected McCoy to wake up and then run past them into the gateway.
Where did you get that name? New Voyages?
Do we know she's the head of that department?
It's Scotty, btw.
Yes, it seems illogical, but then the composition of the landing parties are typically loaded with what M-5 described as "Non-essential personnel."
I don't think there was ever any indication of that on the show. Not to mention, every communication officer we saw--from Alden to Palmer to "Lt. Lisa"--was a lieutenant, same rank as Uhura. One would think a department head would be a lieutenant commander, like Scotty, McCoy or Security Chief Giotto.
I think (if I'm remembering correctly) that she is identified as head of communications in some of the novels, but those would just be cases of redefining the character after the fact, and non-canon to boot.
Well didn't they have more than one transporter? They weren't ALL affected by yellow cake.
You're injecting reality into a Star Trek geek thread? Heresy!It also didn't help that they didn't have a shuttlecraft set or model built yet.
I was thinking along the same lines.
Disrupting is easy, especially with weapons of mass destruction. Being constructive with those is another matter altogether. Weather manipulation via the ship's main phasers would probably get Sulu and pals killed well ahead of schedule.
Similarly, trying to heat rock from orbit would probably fail to create a survivable zone between the deadly cold and the deadly hot ones. But the point of the episode is that they wouldn't even try, because Kirk was half the man he used to be and had his priorities hopelessly confused. A minor inconvenience turned into a life-threatening calamity because Kirk always did too little, too late.
Scotty couldn't be sure of that, though. And after he came up with the theory that the yellow dirt was the culprit, he beamed down the heaters (which were already too little, too late at that point anyway), and they failed to work - even though supposedly he would have tried another platform if he thought that would help.
Anyway, after that, only minutes seem to transpire until the two Kirks slug it out and disrupt the entire transporter system for good. Perhaps Scotty just never got around to trying out the other platforms? Again a case of time working against our indecisive heroes.
Timo Saloniemi
Similarly, trying to heat rock from orbit would probably fail to create a survivable zone between the deadly cold and the deadly hot ones. But the point of the episode is that they wouldn't even try, because Kirk was half the man he used to be and had his priorities hopelessly confused. A minor inconvenience turned into a life-threatening calamity because Kirk always did too little, too late.
Scotty couldn't be sure of that, though. And after he came up with the theory that the yellow dirt was the culprit, he beamed down the heaters (which were already too little, too late at that point anyway), and they failed to work - even though supposedly he would have tried another platform if he thought that would help.
Anyway, after that, only minutes seem to transpire until the two Kirks slug it out and disrupt the entire transporter system for good. Perhaps Scotty just never got around to trying out the other platforms? Again a case of time working against our indecisive heroes.
Timo Saloniemi
My memory is kinda fuzzy on this part, but didn't later scenes show Sulu wearing some sort of parka thing once it became nut-numbingly cold? Where'd that come from?
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They probably beamed down some blankets. Not much danger of them malfunctioning.
The three stranded crew shared a common "blanket", actually suggesting it wasn't supposed to be a wearable item. And further suggesting they did not have wearable blankets.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x05hd/theenemywithinhd570.jpg
The "blanket" we see is apparently the tricolor tent cover seen in the teaser.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x05hd/theenemywithinhd006.jpg
The landing party might have been well stocked with covers of all sorts, possibly against the bright sun of the daylight hours (cold but likely to give you skin cancer nevertheless), possibly for covering the site during the nights when all personnel would be up in the ship. Things optimized for retaining body heat might have been in shorter supply, though... And due to Kirk's incapacitation, no such things were beamed down, either, until the two Kirks destroyed the transporter and it was too late. The scene where the trio dons the tent cover does come after the transporter-destroying scene...
Timo Saloniemi
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x05hd/theenemywithinhd570.jpg
The "blanket" we see is apparently the tricolor tent cover seen in the teaser.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x05hd/theenemywithinhd006.jpg
The landing party might have been well stocked with covers of all sorts, possibly against the bright sun of the daylight hours (cold but likely to give you skin cancer nevertheless), possibly for covering the site during the nights when all personnel would be up in the ship. Things optimized for retaining body heat might have been in shorter supply, though... And due to Kirk's incapacitation, no such things were beamed down, either, until the two Kirks destroyed the transporter and it was too late. The scene where the trio dons the tent cover does come after the transporter-destroying scene...
Timo Saloniemi
I thought they could only destroy half a continent, or was that only using the portable remote control cannon thingy.
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