In article <xGzKj.88$Zh6.76@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
James Squire <JamesSquire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Uh, well, no. It's based on the Pueblo incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_%28AGER-2%29
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