06-19-2022, 11:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2022, 06:27 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
It would have been the potential warring sides that wanted the giant starship to stay away, not Kirk or Starfleet. Yes, someone might have worried about the shuttle being armed, but they may have scanned it six ways to Sunday, or it might have been common knowledge that Starfleet shuttles of the period were not armed.
Anyway, that's my theory for the reason why the Enterprise didn't go in to bring Hedford aboard to treat her and the episode began with a shuttle ride. Feel free to come up with your own, but attributing it to stupidity and incompetence on the part of the series' primary hero characters doesn't fly. Because we're talking about 60s TV, when the "good guys" simply weren't allowed to do anything the audience might view as immoral or incompetent.
Anyway, that's my theory for the reason why the Enterprise didn't go in to bring Hedford aboard to treat her and the episode began with a shuttle ride. Feel free to come up with your own, but attributing it to stupidity and incompetence on the part of the series' primary hero characters doesn't fly. Because we're talking about 60s TV, when the "good guys" simply weren't allowed to do anything the audience might view as immoral or incompetent.