From: det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Rascals SPOILERS
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:36:23 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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**SPOILERS AHEAD ***

In article <1der1iINNs7h@agate.berkeley.edu> felix@ocf.berkeley.edu (Felix Ling) writes:
...(much discussion deleted)...
>
>>>>...were downright stupid, and I can't believe they
>>>>got control of the Enterprise so quickly.
>
>They also used stock footage of "Yesterday's Enterprise", and it didn't
>exactly fit! (they showed the Klingon shots hitting the *hull* when the
>shields were still up.  This was right after the commercial break, I think).
>And only one shot?  Puh-lease!  They didn't even seem that concerned!  Gee,
>we're getting shot at.  Why don't we check out the damage reports, sit around
>for a while, then maybe fire a phaser?  Hmm, it didn't hurt them too much.
>Oh well, let's just take a few more damage reports, and sit around until
>they board us.  Oh look, there are Ferengis materializing on the bridge!
>Let's wait for them to fully materialize before we even think about drawing
>a phaser, and then miss him horribly!
>

I **DO** believe that Worf had better spend more time in the phaser
target practice program on the holodeck.  It would not have hurt the
plot any to have two Ferengi materialize **WIDELY SEPARATED** and let
Worf take out one before the other nailed him.

The Enterprise was taken by surprise.  It happens.  They were expecting
a natural disaster, not an attack.  Even when ships appeared, they were
Klingon Birds of Prey, ships of an allied power.  My wife, who had **NOT**
seen the previews, was stunned ("Wait!  Why are KLINGONS firing on the
Enterprise?")  Don't you think that would also have had a similar effect
on the Big E crew?  It's sort of like the State Police investigating a
report of an automobile accident and having a County Sheriff's car
arrive and start shooting at them.

So they re-used some stock footage.  Good grief, they **DO** have a
budget!  At least they aren't waving salt shakers around in sickbay!

As for the Big E firing only one shot, immediately after firing on the
first ship, Worf announced that the power coupling was offline from
one of the hits from the attackers.  I suppose he could have prefaced
that with "Phasers are out!", in order to keep the whiners happy, but
**I** didn't have any trouble seeing that ;-).  Of course, photon
torpedoes must be loaded and armed before they can be fired, and with
so many critical systems down, I'm not surprised there was no real
opportunity to fire any of them.

I did think the RVN babble was just so much nonsense.  I would have
thought it would have been better as one of Q's pranks, except of
course they had just shown a Q episode.  Perhaps that's how it was
originally written, but had to be changed when they coordinated the
episodes for the season.  I can just see it:

Picard (tightly): Q, we've had enough of your childish games!

Q: Mon capitan, you wound me!  But if we must talk of being childish...

<<four flashing columns of light, and Picard, Guinan, Ro, and Keiko
  are transformed into children>>

...  I'll be back when you've grown up <<vanishes in a column of light>>.



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