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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
I've watched a ton of Star Trek throughout my life. The Boomers pushed Star Trek on my Gen X. I recorded shows on VHS. I collected movies and memorabilia. I read books about the show and watched documentaries. I went to a convention. I started losing interest after I cringed through the 1st episode of Enterprise. I began looking at the whole series in a critical way, and I found it lacking. I figured the series would die once they asked for a subscription. I wouldn't even have an antenna if my wife didn't want it. I recently gave all my Star Trek stuff to a guy I don't know, because he said he liked the franchise. Having said all that, this still stands out as an important moment in leftist propaganda to me.
At this point, I'm only watching Discovery for Trek completism's sake. There were entirely too many "OMG, the feels!" moments this season and that tops how very many there were last season.
Daughter and I made the mistake of watching the premiere of Picard before watching the a Discovery episode, which made the latter look even shoddier. We filled the rest of the parallel time watching Picard first.
I watched the several seasons of Discovery. I haven't looked at the latest season yet.
Each episode of Discovery seems to go from introduce a character, to OMGODWEREALLGONNADIE, to Ah, resolved! in 54 minutes, and then the last season, that become like three episodes of OMGODWEREALLGONNADIE at a time. They did manage to squeeze a little character development in, now and then, but mostly ran in full time panic mode.
I'll pick up the new season after Picard, I think.
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The question is what episode did Spock say this in, and the answer is it was actually Kirk who said it, at the end of Shore Leave. (One of the episodes where Kirk rips his shirt, that should narrow it down for you.)
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These here are the 4 TOS episodes from the vintage-style Star Trek posters I have hanging up in my office (along with my current recollection of the plots of the eps):
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - Aliens that have white on one side of their face and black on the other side of their face learn that being bigoted about skin color is arbitrary and silly.
The Trouble With Tribbles - Tribbles eat all the grain that's supposed to go to some planetary colony, they reproduce like crazy (born pregnant), and they overwhelm the Enterprise. The situation is resolved when they beam the lot of them onto a Klingon ship, which just has to be a war crime. Also Jadzia Dax was there. Also H. Jon Benjamin originally genetically engineered the Tribbles to be foodstuffs. That's 100% canon, don't @ me.
The Alternative Factor - A guy named Lazarus keeps having fights with a "monster" that is somehow an alternate version of him, and I think they swap every time they fight? I just watched this one and I still can't even remember what the fuck was going on.
Catspaw - I have no memory of this. I think it's supposed to be a novelty episode, like a Halloween special maybe? There's probably a Morgana-style witch. If I was going to choose the collection to make the posters of, I would have skipped this one and put in either Armageddon Game or Spock's Brain. Or City on the Edge of Forever.
Anyway, like I said, I watched The Alternative Factor maybe a week ago. I didn't get to the other three yet, though, because I found out that The Cage is available to watch, and I don't think I ever saw the original cut of that. So I was going to watch The Cage and then The Menagerie Parts 1 & 2, and then maybe some Disco to gear up for Strange New Worlds. But I only got as far as The Cage before I got tired.
Catspaw was like the 2nd-to-last of the last season. I remember that it has a male and female human-seeming "witches" who make magic things happen, including a giant black cat for extra campiness. They of course turn out to be aliens using undefined alien tech, and end up reverting to tiny, tentacled creatures. For some reason, nobody steps on them.
One of the worst, despite a Robert Bloch (really? didn't remember that) screenplay. Better than the Space Hippies, the commies-vs-yanks one (Omega Glory?), or Charlie X, but not as good as Spock's Brain.
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Catspaw was like the 2nd-to-last of the last season. I remember that it has a male and female human-seeming "witches" who make magic things happen, including a giant black cat for extra campiness. They of course turn out to be aliens using undefined alien tech, and end up reverting to tiny, tentacled creatures. For some reason, nobody steps on them.
One of the worst, despite a Robert Bloch (really? didn't remember that) screenplay. Better than the Space Hippies, the commies-vs-yanks one (Omega Glory?), or Charlie X, but not as good as Spock's Brain.
I kind of liked "Catspaw", but only because it was cheesy and intentionally goofy. No one stepped on the tiny aliens because they died from exposure without their artificially created environment. (That and those freaky puppets were probably too fragile.)
Anyone else watching Nu Trek? Completionist that I am, I have seen every episode of Disco, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Picard, etc. IMO, they're all varying levels of okay to great. However ...
!!!! Strange New Worlds !!!!
Are we watching this? If not, start now! It's so good. Handsom Anson Mount stars as Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn is Number One, Ethan Peck is Spock. It's basically the Enterprise before James Kirk showed up. So there's also Uhura, Nurse Chapel, and James's brother George Kirk. Also, because of something that happened in Discovery, Pike is aware of his future accident, and that knowledge sometimes has an effect on his decision-making.
It's mostly episodic (except for the through lines of who is going to hook up with whom, and one weird arc where someone lives in the transport buffer, which I hope gets resolved soon because it's dumb), so you don't necessarily need to watch every episode in order starting at episode 1. I mention that because, do me and yourself a favor and watch episode S01E06 "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach".
We watched it this weekend and then we watched it again. It is such a classic TOS sci-fi premise, where the "science" is basically magic, but that's not the point. The point is to set up an ethical conundrum to make you think and talk and go omg this show is awesome! I can't recommend it enough.
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Oh wow, I seriously need to get caught up!
Daughter and I have missed several Star Trek weekends so the last episode of Strange New Worlds we watched was "Spock Amok".
The hairdo Anson Mount is sporting in the show detracts from the story but he's still handsome underneath it.
We just started watching Strange New Worlds and are really liking it so far. We've only seen the first 2 episodes but I would recommend it to any Trek fan for sure.
It has the amazing visuals of Discovery but with a more TOS feel to it.
Gotta say: the Strange New Worlds finale was frickin' AWESOME!
Spoiler Alert! Srsly
Daughter and I went back to the original treatment of the story for comparison's sake and it turned out to be also great. Maybe now I can convince her that TOS should be our next bingeing assignment.
On a recent Star Trek Saturday, Daughter and I watched TNG S6E19: Lessons. This was the one where Picard gets a girlfriend on the crew and they have a musical connection.
We get to the part where the girlfriend brings out a portable piano that unrolls like a yoga mat and begins to play.
"I call bullshit!" I cry. "No way you can just unroll an instrument and have it sound like the real thing!"
Daughter starts to laugh. "You can accept transporters, time travel, and universal translators, but draw the line at a portable piano?!"
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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Re: Star Trek is awesome
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