From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!!  (As seen on TV)
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:37:11 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

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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