[Atrocities]

Incidentally, when Gene Rod. did get a script in TOS, it tended to have some really awful elements. For example, the TOS episode where the turning point is when Kirk finds an old flag of the underground movement on the alien planet, and sees that it just happens to coincidentally be exactly like a flag of the USA. Naturally, this also goes hand-in-hand with them having come up with the same words as some of America's Founding Fathers, which he recites. Yep. Total coincidence. USA as universal truth and goodness. Yep.

I have to defend this one. This plot twist was explained in later episodes. There was a race of beings the went around creating duplicate worlds and transplating raced to those worlds for study. However something happened to the race and it was wiped out by another race. Both TOS and TNG, as well as episodes in DS9, mention races that did this.

[ January 03, 2004, 23:02: Message edited by: Atrocities ]