From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?

Graeme  wrote in
news:093fb595-f6ee-4440-b8f5-f3b1131766fb{at}googlegroups.com: 

> On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:27:24 AM UTC-6, Wiseguy wrote:
>> Graeme  wrote in
>> Not everything has to be explained.  The Guardian obviously has some 
>> type of intelligence even if only a computer-type intelligence
>> otherwise 
>  
>> it couldn't have a conversation with Kirk.
> 
> Apparently.  But it's anyone's guess as to why it would send McCoy
> back to a critical focal point in history, then send two more people
> back to undo the effects of what the first one did.  Unless it's just
> bored, as you suggest.  Things within the immediate vicinity of the
> Guardian do seem to be immune to the effects of time line changing 
> 
> The Focal Point theory doesn't come from the Guardian.  Spock comes up
> with it after they've travelled back.  His reason for recommending it
> is that if it isn't true, they're screwed (which is probably a logical
> fallacy or two if we want to quibble and identify them).  Ultimately
> though, it's technobabble to say that Edith being a pivotal figure in
> history somehow draws time travelers to her.  We can accept it to see
> the story, but best not to think about it too much. 
> 
> The Guardian's own backstory is also technobabble and contradictory. 
> In one breath it claims to be self existent, and a few breaths later
> claims to have been made. 
> 

I wouldn't say McCoy was sent to a critical focal point in history. He 
went to whatever history the Guardian was playing at the moment.  There 
are any number of things he could have done in any time period to 
unknowingly change history.

Kirk and Spock, on the other hand, had the Guardian replay the archival 
footage and Spock, having recorded when McCoy jumped through on his 
tricorder, and perhaps with a little help from the Guardian (he/it would 
have nothing to gain from history being changed) and the theory of time 
flow being consistent jumped through at the approximate time.

As far as the self-exiting/had been made dialogue that is just bad 
writing or just one of those mistakes that are made in any film such as 
Kirk giving out wrong stardates and planet names in the log in "Spock's 
Brain."   
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