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Terrence Daniels writes
"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
in message ...
Didn't several series resort to the flashback formula to get round the
strike?
At least "Shades of Grey" gave UK audiences the chance to see that guy's
head explode - the scene was cut from "Conspiracy" but censors are never
the sharpest knife in the box.

I really don't know if any episode can be more revolting than "Conspiracy".
In fact I had to look it up to make sure that was the title, since you
mentioned heads exploding... The bug crawled into that guy and they phasered
him, and at that point everyone in my household agreed that we would turn
off the TV and pretend that this particular episode never happened. I would
imagine that the fan reaction was decidedly negative, and honestly I haven't
heard anything about it since it aired.

I'm not enough of a Trekkie to dig for it, but I'd guess that the plan
was to make those bugs the bad guys in future episodes - the end of the
ep is the most blatant "we'll be back" line I've ever seen.
Fan reaction was then highly negative, and they went for the Borg
instead.
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"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"
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