Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

GeneK wrote:
> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> It clearly had "magic" powers i.e. it could do whatever the story 
>> required
>> without explanation. It could control the ship. It could control 
>> emotions.
>> It could make people believe untrue things (Chekov's brother). It 
>> could heal
>> fatally wounded people (McCoy testified to that).
> 
> OTOH, if it could make people believe in colonies and family
> members who never existed, maybe it could also make them
> believe their ships were doing things they weren't, and that
> nonexistent woulds were mysteriously healing.  

That would mean it had the power of illusion like the Talosians.

But in "The Cage," what kept things firmly grounded in reality was that 
the Big E was orbiting Talos IV and was (for the most part) unaffected 
by most of the illusions.  Only the landing party was being victimized 
by these illusions.

Whereas in your interpretation of "Day of the Dove," virtually everybody 
would be affected by the illusions (both the Enterprise and the Klington 
ship and the planet's surface).  Heck, maybe Kang and his Klingon crew 
didn't exist either, any more than the Kalar warrior in the Rigel VII 
illusion that Pike experienced.  The fact that there's no firm grounding 
in reality anywhere made the episode too close to fantasy--a bit like 
some Twilight Zone episodes in fact.


> We never saw the interior of the ship
> after it left; could be they found themselves surrounded by
> some really embarressing litter, and in the first Klingon/
> Federation.conspiracy in history Kirk and Kang decided
> to hush it up and stick to the "we were forced to fight by
> an alien influence" story.

If Rod Serling had written the script, that's probably how it would have 
ended.  A number of Twilight Zone episodes end that way:  The 
protagonists don't understand what the hell was happening, so they just 
decide to say the heck with it and go on with their lives.


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Steven L.
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