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

Ron  wrote in
news:e9714021-8afb-4e14-a41e-192ad4ff9801{at}googlegroups.com: 

> On Thursday, September 26, 2013 6:56:06 PM UTC-7, Wiseguy wrote:
>> Ron  wrote in
>> news:340405e0-49d3-4824-837e-0dcd610 
> 07774{at}googlegroups.com: > I was watching Errand of Mercy and a few
> things struck me as odd, > making enough to start a list of
> unexplained oddities. > > For one, on a planet with absolutely no
> technology, why didn't Kirk & > Spock think it strange that the doors
> would open and close for them > And speaking of no technology, isn't
> the Prime Directive supposed to > keep Federation people from making
> contact with backwards cultures > that doesn't have space travel.Had
> the Organians been a human culture, > wouldn't they have been badly
> freaked to hear about space ships and > other worlds? So the PD is
> only a big thing until Starfleet needs > something then it isn't? > >
> I was also thinking about Wrath of Khan. I wont mention that big plot
> > hole about not recogniing the Ceti Alpha system but fid Kirk ever
> tell > Starfleet about Khan? Just on the off chane some ship might
> come by > Ceti Alpha V, beam down a landing party, and suddenly find
> themselves > captured? The way Chekov talked and the story went, it
> made it look > like Kirk never told anyone about Ceti Alpha. I cand
> understand why he > might not say anything about finding Zefram
> Cochrane, but Khan? > > And what's the deal with Spock setting his
> tricorder for silicon in > Devil In the Dark; isn't most of the planet
> he was on made of silicon? He may have been looking for something
> alive made of silicon, or something made of silicon moving. 
> 
> But if 90% of the planet is silicon or iron-silicon isn't setting his
> tricorder kinda like looking for some Sprite in a glass of water? :-) 
> 
> Okay, you have such a marvelous instrument, the tricorder. It can tell
> the differnce between a piece of silicon rock and a silicon rock-like
> creature, but it can't playback a picture it was capable of recording.
> LOL.  The tiny little things that make TOS fun... 
> 
> Ron
>  
> 

I believe I said that the pricture was recorded at the speed the 
Guardian was displaying the pictures. Spock himself commented to Kirk on 
the planet at how fast the centuries were passing.  He needed a device 
to slow down the pictures.  This was stated on the episode. 
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