Graham Kennedy wrote:Oh, a similar thing happened in TOS "Bread and Circuses", where the Enterprise is investigating the loss of the SS Beagle, lost six years ago. But in that case the dialogue could be taken to indicate that the ship had just mysteriously vanished and now the wreckage was discovered, rather than that they hadn't yet gotten around to looking for it.
Holy hopping snot. I am such a moron. Just now - even though I've had forty years to realize it - after seeing it in type in your post above, did I realize the reference of the name SS Beagle.