From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm{at}albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: Just A  Few Odd Things?

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

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