s1e5: it's a plague which causes a sad man to lose hope, another to become as irish as only star trek can imagine (it's a lot but it's not very authentic)… and a glistening sulu to become a swashbuckling pirate wth his top off
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
unicorn dog
https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/06.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
I think I said it in some other thread but it should have been easy for the crew to spot evil Kirk as he wears far more eyeliner when he's evil.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
also he accessorizes
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
lol
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
always liked the divider screens in the enterprise living quarters
https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/captain-kirk-quarters.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
yes! my favorite is the sequined blankets / pillows in the sick bay
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
it should have been easy for the crew to spot evil Kirk as he wears far more eyeliner when he's evil.
it is easy iirc-- one of the best parts of mirror mirror is its correctly judging that while an evil spock might be the series' most formidable villain, an evil kirk could only be a sweating idiot who gets captured in five minutes
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 February 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
otm re sequins. a lot of peaceful shots fading up on them to the thrum-thrum of the bar charts.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 February 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
was sure for a moment actually that the 23c-kitsch supremacist-revival wall art in mark's pic was just a large swatch of sickbay blanket
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 February 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
William Ware Theiss must have got a wholesale deal on that sequined material, i just picture bolts of it in a room somewhere - it shows up on walls, as dresses, pillows, blankets, it’s funny once you start to notice it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
like the set dresser’s like “this stuff AGAIN? ok fine” *staples it to a wall*
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
choosing to think of this as a d&d alignment grid
chaotic evil is my fave
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 February 2023 06:29 (one year ago) link
if i were dr roger korby i wd hide the sex robot in a cupboard when my fiance came on a visit
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
BBC banned miri after a single showing, which i saw: so this is the first time i watched it since 1970
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
O RLY?
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
Part of some blanket Michael J. Pollard ban?
"deemed too intense for minors"
(bbc had trek filed as a kids' show)
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
What a grup thing to do.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
it's a stressful ep, they shd ban it again imo
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
Kirk gets a bit paedo iirc
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 February 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
the seeming children are over 300 years old plus yeoman janice rand is present the whole time
but yes
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
also it stars a very young jackie chiles from seinfeld, hence outrageous! egregious! preposterous!
― mark s, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
i imagine every single school the next day was full of "bonk, bonk, on the head"
― koogs, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
I know I for one never stopped saying that or at least thinking it.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Y'all know the thing about Floyd's barbershop, don't you?
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
I posted upthread already about it, of course I did.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
a fun thing to be hired for wd be minor crew extra where yr role is to be walking along a corridor with lots of other crew members in various directions when an enemy vessel fires at the enterprise and you then have to hurl yrself around and stagger into ppl for a few seconds
― mark s, Saturday, 25 February 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
otm truly a dream job
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
THE CORBOMITE MANOEUVRE: the baby-sized alien is played by ron howard's brother clint and he gives a terrific performance, this ends up being a very likeable episode mainly thanks to him imo
― mark s, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
“Have some Tranya…”
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
clint is so good! i also like the melting-faced “what if squidward but alien” projection thingo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
and yet this is how wikipedia chooses to illustrate this ep
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Grace_Lee_Whitney_William_Shatner_Corbomite_Manuever_Star_Trek_1966.jpg/500px-Grace_Lee_Whitney_William_Shatner_Corbomite_Manuever_Star_Trek_1966.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link
yeoman janice never a bad call but still yes, weird choice
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
at least it's not the whiny helmsman
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
this is going back a few days, but wasn't a TNG episode banned in the UK due to a mention of "the irish reunification of ____"?
― ian, Sunday, 26 February 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
of next year
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 February 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
yes, same year as the bell riots. can't wait.
― ian, Sunday, 26 February 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
heavy sigh on the bell riots
― mh, Sunday, 26 February 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
"you don't know what happened to captain pike? there's been sub-space chatter about it for months"
proof that trek has twitter (but serving vessels are blocked from receiving it)
― mark s, Monday, 27 February 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
so uhura is basically their social media officer is what you are saying
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 February 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
everyone sitting down is online
― mark s, Monday, 27 February 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
so will take any and every opportunity to say in 85/86 (age 13/14) got to meet Nichelle Nichols at a comic book/sci-fi con - got a picture with, signed photo, and a kiss on the cheek
still flying from that decades later
also when I first out at her talk about her work with NASA
― H in Addis, Monday, 27 February 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
feel the talosians might have made less of a hideous botch of rebuilding vina if they'd just decided to fashion her as another talosian (maybe with a smaller less bulbously bald and veiny head)
― mark s, Monday, 27 February 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
^real talk
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
Susan Oliver’s Wikipedia page kind of interesting.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
Just found out that, in addition to being in The Searchers, Jeffrey Hunter was also in Sergeant Rutledge.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
And he died in 1969 as a result of the aftereffect of an on-set explosion while filming something in Spain.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
got a picture with, signed
Fantastic work, well done. I was trying to explain the joys of conventions to my sceptical husband the other day. I said they're a bit like festivals but instead of music there is just glorious merch and other nerds who will not laugh at you for wearing a communicator pin. (Well, the one and only con I went to was like that. Back in 1991.)
― trishyb, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
My lone convention was 1991 - Bones and Dr. Crusher were the headliners.
― and my soul would smack me if I didn’t listen (PBKR), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link