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

"Daniel47{at}teranews.com"  wrote in
news:J6B2u.238$F%.160{at}fx18.iad: 

> Ron wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 26, 2013 6:56:06 PM UTC-7, Wiseguy wrote:
>>> Ron  wrote in
>>> news:340405e0-49d3-4824-837e-0dcd61007774{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
> 
> Could it be that Spock had set the tricorder to look for "moving" 
> things, i.e. moving silicon, moving granite, moving people??
> 
> Daniel
> 

That's pretty much what I said but Ron apparently deleted my response in 
his post.
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