From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Deep Review 9: "The Emissary" (SPOILERS)
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:51:25 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1993Jan7.215630.3192@cci632.cci.com> tvf@cci632.cci.com (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:

>>>Spoilers follow, so beware...


>A good point, but who knows.  Remember, he's not a human - does he
>only see with his humanoid eyes in that form?  Hey, how does a
>jello-like shapeshifter sense the world, anyway?

Interesting point.  Another point someone I was watching with brought
up:  At what point does he rearrange himself?  Can he turn his hand into
a phaser?

The reason it was brought up was because of the communication pin (if
that's what it is) that he's wearing on his shirt.  The shirt is him,
not a piece of cloth.  Is the pin him, too, or is he wearing a pin?
If it's him, does it work?  If so, just what *can't* he do? :-)

I'd like to know how he sees, though, and if it's only through the
eyes.  Can he make "eyes in the back of his head"?  Boy, this guy's
got unlimited potential!

>The way Stewart's jaw sort of dropped at the mention of the battle of
>Wolf 359?  The discomfort he put across?  That was modulation.

Yeah, that was a good scene.  I'll take back my comment about Stewart not
doing anything.  The look on his face. :-)

>I didn't say that he was played stupidly.  I said that the Ferengi are
>usually portrayed as idiots (as are the Romulans).  I said Quark was
>better than most Ferengi.

Sorry, I misunderstood.  I agree, Ferengi are usually played very stupidly.
I like Quark.  If they don't screw up the character, he could be very
fun to watch. :-)

>Lessen the mass using a shield of some kind?  Sorry, I don't buy it.
>And I agree about the stupid bubble.

Hmmm.  I must have been getting the Coke when that part was mentioned.
I missed the "lessen the mass" part.  One other poster mentioned in was
once on another episode.  The only time I remember it being mentioned was
in Q-??? (episode where Q loses his powers).  They needed to move a moon,
and asked Q how to do it.  He said "Just change the gravitational constant
of the universe."

I think it was funny then, but to change the mass of the station with shields
is, as you said, hokey.

>The borg seemed to have no problem trying to destroy resistors.

Yeah, I forgot.  The Borg assimilate cultures, not individuals.  :-)

>BTW, if the Borg could carve up the fleet like that, how come when the
>Enterprise did the separation (in "Best of Both Worlds Part II") they
>didn't just take out the two pieces?  Are the Enterprise crew that
>much better than the whole fleet?

I thought about that.  There's only one thing I can think of.  The fleet seemed
to go at the Borg head-on, which makes sense, when you vastly outnumber the
opposition.  I think the Enterprise tried to come up with a different strategy.
Also, they had the Federation's leading authorty on the Borg on board.

So, instead of a toe-to-toe fight, they needed something sneaky, which the
ships at W359 didn't do.

>No, a little more.  Apart from Spock and McCoy (and the occasional
>Scotty "You can't be serious" lines) there really wasn't a lot of
>conflict in the crew.  And the McCoy and Spock stuff did sometimes get
>a little too similar (if I ever here "Why you green-blooded
>something-or-other" again I will get sick).

Yes, agreed there.  And, unfortunately, they all seemed to be getting along
well enough by the end of the show that these conflicts may have come to
an end already. :(

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