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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Doomed People? 3 Lamp Inventor 4 Pregnant?? 4.1 Background Cleanup

Kirk's kisses with Miramanee are interracial from the standpoint of the characters, but Sabrina Scharf was not actually Native American herself. It is pretty likely there were kisses of this type is several tv Westerns much before this.

I'd like to know how long this whole adventure took, from the beginning of the episode to the start of The Enterprise Incident. Scotty said the warp engines were gone and that there was no hope unless they could get the ship to a repair base. The trip back to the planet took about two months. Any ideas what happened after that? Did someone come and tow them to a starbase, or did they get there on impulse (after years!). About how long would it take to perform the repairs? Another question is why the warp engines burned out in the first place. On Spock's orders, they traveled at warp 9 to get to the asteroid. They should have got there in no time. Even if we apply Cochrane's factor from Star Trek Maps, using warp drive within a star system causes the ship to speed up, not slow down - unless the waves that accelerate a ship at high warp can also work to drag it back. I hope someone will try to think of some ideas instead of labeling me obsessed with details! That is no fun!192.217.84.1 19:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Doomed People?

These people have supposedly been isolated from Earth for centuries-any reason to suppose their bodies immune systems would protect them from 24th century earth germs?

Good point. The crew have been immunized to commonly occurring 24th-century germs, but they may still be carriers. 192.217.84.1 19:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lamp Inventor

It's not listed in the trivia for this episode, but I just saw the 2007 digitally remastered broadcast when Kirk was carving out a lamp from a dried squash and remembered that he explained that this "lamp" would turn darkness into daylight in the original broadcasts. Is my memory failing me, like that of the god Kirok?

No, it's not. Miramanee humorously responded that she'd be forever cooking as a result. The finished lamp appears in a later scene. Adambomb1701 16:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pregnant??

It states in the article for this episode that the remastered version cuts the line where Miramanee announces her pregnancy. The version that TV Land runs eliminated that line as well. Adambomb1701 16:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Background Cleanup

I removed the following for being POV:

• The fact the third season episodes look as good as they do is a tribute to the ingenuity of the dedicated crew of the series, despite their knowledge that the series would end in 1969.

The following pointlessly restates what occurs in the episode with POV:

• McCoy admits that he was wrong to blame Spock for the failure to destroy the asteroid, in another classic Spock-McCoy exchange.

The following...is just stupid:

• A fly lands on Kirk's face for a few seconds in the scene where Miramanee announces her pregnancy.

I think the following is a bit of a stretch:

• The idea of a race that leaves beacons for primitive races is reminiscent of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was released in April of the same year (1968).

Unless it was intentionally similar, I query the usefulness of this note.

The following isn't really necessary on the episode page IMO:

• Since Kirk was married in a traditional sense when Miramanee dies, this episode establishes his official marital status as "Widower."

– Cleanse 11:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)