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I believe in IDIC (was Re: I don't "believe" in Australia (was Re: John Leo's opinion))
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Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:54:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Constantine Hannaher writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> >
> > > This is what I meant by Spock phrasing it better--he said something like 'on
> > > a planet with positive gravity'--it's ST:TOS--when was the last time I
> > > caught one of those episodes? ;)
> >
> > Was that from "The Alternative Factor?" I haven't seen much TOS in quite
> > a while, so my memory may be faulty.
>
> Actually, the phrase can be Googled and a WAV of it found fairly readily. The
> episode was "Court Martial" and Spock was comparing his confidence in knowing
> that if he let go of a hammer on a planet with positive gravity, he would know
> that it had, in fact, fallen without having seen it do so to his confidence in
> knowing that his captain would never click the third in a row of identical
> buttons (labeled "Jettison Pod") without having first clicked the second button
> (for "Red Alert").
It was Spocks way of saying human nature is as reliable as the forces of
natural law. I thought that idea, though others might disagree, was quite
astute.
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> Now that my laserdisc player is repaired, this thread was as good an excuse as
> any to watch the episode again. Besides the human factor engineering blunder of
> having identically shaped and operated controls achieve wildly different
> results, there is the horribly sloppy storage (or worse, memory) partitioning
> that allows a change in one program (the audiovisual recording of bridge
> activities) affect another program (three dimensional chess), and the question
> of what amounts to who has root access to the Enterprise's computer.
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> Don't miss the "lounge mix" orchestration of the theme playing under the
> introduction of attorney Shaw.
>
> Constantine
<snip>
Yes, also don't miss the "heart filter" that McCoy uses to filter out the
heartbeats of the people on the bridge (it's a common microphone), as well
as some great shots in the engineering room.
Though, as I have stated, it's been a long while since I've seen the ep.
The voted 'best episode' is 'City on the Edge of Forever' and I'll admit
it's a good one. But my personal favourite is still 'Balance of
Terror'--the whole submarine motif (Romulan cloaked ships), and the racism
(Romulans/Vulcans)--it was a very well done story.
On Enterprise this week, they 'ran into' the Romulan Star Empire--it was
also a pretty good show. I might add here that Enterprise was on at the
same time as West Wing this week--Gasp!! Thank goodness for VCR's ;)
Yeah, basically I'll never escape the geekdom that is my trekkiness.
Dave K.
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