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Re: "Paradise Syndrome" Remastered         

Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Wouter Valentijn
Date: Mar 14, 2007 12:09

Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <45f45470$0$321$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
> "Wouter Valentijn" wrote:
>
>> Elvis Gump wrote:
>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote:
>>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>>> In article <45e9c569$0$333$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
>>>>> "Wouter Valentijn" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Twilight Ghost wrote:
>>>>>>> On Feb 25, 10:07 am, "Steven L." earthlinkNOSPAM.net>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> This weekend we got the remastered "Paradise Syndrome."
>>>>>>>> Weren't many FX there to begin with, and the remastered ones
>>>>>>>> weren't all that exciting either.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the remastered FX had one big technical goof:
>>>>>>>> Miramanee had told Kirk "You have to go to the temple [obelisk]
>>>>>>>> and make the blue flame come out." And sure enough, in the
>>>>>>>> original FX the beam from the obelisk was light blue in color.
>>>>>>>> But in the remastered FX, they made the beam look orange in
>>>>>>>> color. I guess whoever did the remastered FX didn't pick up on
>>>>>>>> Miramanee's line about the blue flame.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Remastering can't fix plot holes, of course; and one big plot
>>>>>>>> hole with the script was why Spock didn't send a subspace
>>>>>>>> message to Starfleet informing them that the Big E was
>>>>>>>> disabled, only capable of impulse speed, and needed immediate
>>>>>>>> assistance. It took 59 days to get from the asteroid's initial
>>>>>>>> encounter
>>>>>>>> back to the planet at impulse speed. In that time, Federation
>>>>>>>> starships could have easily rendered assistance at maximum
>>>>>>>> warp.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Steven D. Litvintchouk
>>>>>>>> Email: sdlit...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
>>>>>>>> Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
>>>>>>> One miff I have of late is how everyone remembers Edith Keeler
>>>>>>> as Kirk's greatest love, but forgets Miramanee. Miramanee was
>>>>>>> not only Kirk's (Kirok's) wife, but was about to bear him a
>>>>>>> child. I'd think later in life, like after the death of David
>>>>>>> Marcus,
>>>>>>> this would echo his losses with Miramanee and their child. Have
>>>>>>> any novels focused on Miramanee? BTW, in ST:Generations, who
>>>>>>> was Antonia? Any background? In the novelization of ST:TMP,
>>>>>>> Kirk's marriage to Adm. Lori Ciana (sp?) was fleshed out a
>>>>>>> little, but ended in the drawn-out transporter malfunction.
>>>
>>>>>> The difference between Keeler and Miramanee was of course also
>>>>>> that with Keeler he knew who he was.
>>>
>>>>>> As for Ciana... She was 'just' a girl friend. I don't remember an
>>>>>> actual marriage. The only wedding I remeber was with Miramanee.
>>>
>>>>> In the book, Kirk and Ciana had a standard one year marriage
>>>>> contract or some such.
>>>>
>>>> Extremely romantic!
>>>>> D
>>>
>>> Well the alternative in the 70's was "Til death or herpes do we
>>> part."
>>>
>>> Shatner and the Reeves-Stevens gave Kirk another wife in those post
>>> Generations books that lived on Chal or whatever the name of that
>>> TOS "The Apple" planet was called. You know, the one where everyone
>>> has a bleach blonde beehive look.
>>
>> ?? The Apple planet...
>> I do remember him getting close to a Klingon/Romulan hybrid lady.
>> Was that her?
>
> The Planet from "The Apple" -- where Vaal lived.

Yes, that I know.
I was wondering about the lady.

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