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Originally Posted by
EarlJam
On the episode where Kirk faced off against Lord Garth, and Garth turned himself into an image of Kirk then tried to beam up to the Enterprise but couldn't because he didn't know the proper response to "Kings to Queens Level Four," well, why did Kirk and company initiate that little plan anyway?
I can't recall even one other occassion where Kirk or anyone else instructed members of the bridge to request a response to "Kings to Queens level Four" before beaming up to the ship.
But on this certain mission, for whatever reason, they just had the good fortune to decide to implement this little tactic. It worked, and I'm glad. Otherwise, Garth would have taken over the Enterprise, Kirk would have been stuck on the planet with the green chick (no wait, Garth blew her up) and all hell would have broken lose.
Anyone have any insight why that particular command was given for that particular mission?
-EarlJam
In this particular episode the Enterprise was visiting a Penal Colony (That's a prison EJ, not the other thing but, that green chick was smokin' hot!).
The planet that hosted the prison was completely uninhabitable and the prison itself was protected from the environment by some type of dome shield. Anyone who escaped onto the planet would die within moments (i.e. the green chick prior to Garth blowing her to bits). Thus the only practical escape would be by transporter to a spaceship. Therefore, the command was issued in the event of an escape attempt.
There were other episodes where Kirk issued just such an order but, right now, they titles escape me.
No problem EJ, glad to be of service.
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Originally Posted by
EarlJam
Awesome, thanks!
I loved the reaction of the Enterprise crew to the explosion that blew the green chick to pieces. You could see the explosion. It was no bigger than Nissan Maxima. Big enough to completely destroy the green chick, but not that big overall. The crew's reaction was one similar to, "Sweet Jesus in a chicken basket! Did you see the size of that explosion! It must of wiped everything out!"
Somewhat of an overreation in my opinion coming from a crew that had faced The Doomsday Machine, along with Commodore Decker, God rest his soul.
-EarlJam
Yeah, the explosion was something. IIRC, the issue at hand was that someone had developed a new "super" explosive and ol' Garth baby, that crazy f*&k, decided to demonstrate it on his unfaithful, green hottie.
Wasn't it in/on her necklace or something?