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Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

Was the Enterprise scheduled to rendezvous w/the Potemkin, or what? How was it mentioned?

Thanks,
-MMoM [Big Grin]

Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :

The Alan Dean Foster novelization has it like this: the Potemkin has a supply of the medicine Spock needs, but the ship is busy. So it transfers the stuff to the freighter Huron, which is then pirated by the Orions before it can rendezvous with the Enterprise. The name "Potemkin" is thus only uttered in a brief expository speech (a Captain's Log?) at the beginning of the story.

However, I don't trust Foster's novelizations much. And even Curt Danhauser's excellent TAS site doesn't seem to provide better detail...

Timo Saloniemi

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

"Captain's log, supplemental: We have arranged to get the strobolin needed to save Mr. Spock's life. The starship Potemkin has already picked up the drug and will transfer it to a freighter, the SS Huron, for delivery to the Enterprise."
-Captain Kirk, "The Pirates of Orion"

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

Thanks, TSN. That's from the ep, not the novel, right?

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

Wait a minute...'S.S. Huron'???

[Confused]

That was in the dialogue? So that's where it originated... [Roll Eyes]

Damn I wish I had TAS tapes to refer to. [Mad]

-MMoM

[ February 04, 2002, 13:17: Message edited by: The Mighty Monkey of Mim ]

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Yes, it's from the episode. And the ship, despite saying "USS HURON" on the hull, is referred to as "SS Huron" by both Kirk and the Huron's captain.

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

Would you happen to know if the Ariel from "The Eye of the Beholder" was also called 'S.S.' in the dialogue?

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Nope. Just "Ariel".