Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>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
There's also some resemblance to the U-2 overflight incident.
DC Fontana may not have had that in mind, but I'd be surprised if the
precedent completely skipped her mind. (And, as with the Cloaking
Mission, I have sympathy with the viewpoint that it may be illegal and
grounds for outrage but also really needed, and likely to be valuable
enough to make them undertake it.)
--
Joseph Nebus
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