Joseph Nebus wrote:
> The Enterprise Incident
> The Plot:
> A beautiful Romulan commander (Joanne Linville) woos Spock after
> capturing the Enterprise in the neutral zone. (Tivo)
>
>
> - I don't think I appreciated when I first watched this episode
> just how much of it was a Mission: Impossible plot. Well, that show was
> never on when I was growing up, at least not so I'd notice. David
> Gerrold made the point in _The World Of Star Trek_ that the mission is a
> pretty despicable one, the Federation doing something outright illegal
> and which would have been perceived as an outrage had the Romulans
> pulled a parallel trick on the Federation, and we're expected to be glad
> that Our Heroes got away with it.
As I recall, he also made the point that this story was based on a
real-life WWII incident which on the other hand didn't go so well for
"our heroes". If I thought I had a prayer of finding my copy, I'd dig
it out.
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