From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!!  (As seen on TV)
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In article <9289@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.070238.542@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>> In article <1992Nov3.195448.23369@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>In [the following edited and expurgated] article <Bx5Jpw.Iss@math.uwaterloo.ca> fass@math.uwaterloo.ca (The FASS Theatre Company) writes :
>
> >>He should have been more clever, like George Lucas, who, when
> >>unable to obtain licensing permission to use the Chipmunks in Star Wars,
> >>satirized the Chipmunks by portraying them in hidden monks' hoods as
> >>scavengers on the desert world of Tatooine (and Tatooine has eight letters,
> >>just like Theodore -- see?)
> 
>Now this is all suddenly beginning to make sense!
>
>> supply of Lemurs, and as we all know, Gene Roddenberry was a huge Lemur
>> fan.  
>
>I think I saw this mentioned in Rodenberry's (or Roddenberry's) re-release of
>the reconstructed pilot.  (From the black-and-white footage + what they used
>on the TOS two-parter).  As Rodenberry climbs into the transporter room
>at the end of the video, he says "For us, no Lemurs".  Most people just ASSUME
>that he's saying "For us, no LIMITS".  (And we ALL know that when you assume
>you make an ASS out of U and ME.  So this PROVES your Lemur theory which, from
>now on will be abbreviated TLT (The Lemur Theory) or maybe TLP (The Lemur
>Proof) or maybe even TLL (The Lemur Law) or just TLTTLPTLL for short).
>
>> .  Plus, in shooting of the pilot, The Cafe, you
>> can see Lemurs swinging by overhead on the restaurant lights during the
>> scene in which Pike gets the Talosians to pick up the check.  
>
>This really was clever of Majel (who was William Shatner's wife and so landed
>a part in TOS as well as TOP (The Original Pilot)) to use that phaser on
>overload to get the Talosians to pick up the check.  I nearly died when they
>yelled "Sweet baby Jesus, get some credits up here before they kill us all!"
>
>They called her character "Number one" because she was the Number One
>Cheapsake onboard the Enterprise.  (The call Will Riker "Number One" because
>he's the Number One Stud of the Galaxy.  Note that NOBODY called Spock
>"Number One", because he would crush your head if you did).
>
>Pike was a clever B*st*rd, if not a cheap one.
>
>Did you know he got badly injured after picking the pockets of some kids
>exposed to M-rays?  He just couldn't resist the opportunity to go through
>their wallets while they were unconsious.  After he picked their pockets he
>took the money, went to a bar on Regulus II and got into a fight with some
>hairy guy with bad teeth and a battle axe.  He thought it was a joke being
>played on him by the Talosians.
>
>
>> Furr
>
>Don't you mean Furrfu?
>
>Terry "who else" Wood
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