Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

spock's mom complaing that he doesn't smile enough and also he never visits 👍🏽 🖖🏼

kirk now flirting w/spock's mom lol

i love spock’s mom in that episode

i was thinking maybe i never saw this ep before but then the pale blue lad's antenna fell off and i do remember that

i guess spock's dad on the brink of death did not impress me as a teen (his mom reminds me a bit of mine tbh)

it’s quite affecting in its way!

they try and disguise the emotion as banter involving bones! but we can see thru it!!

these guys have a look :) fun-fur chest bandannas, ponytails thru their beanies

https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/tos-fridayschild.jpg

kirk loves to take his top off

(newsflash)

A friend made a related comment about Kirk that always stuck with me: in TNG S1 finale, Picard tries to reason with the tarpit alien that kills Tasha Yar, while Kirk would have ripped off his shirt, jumped in, and wrestled it.

*arena music plays*

Excuse pedantry—

But doesn’t Picard blow the head off a baddie insect alien at the end of S1? IIRC it’s an unusually impressive Stan Winston style gruey effect.

https://media.tenor.com/Mrd9qXlspW8AAAAC/startrekconspiracy-picardandriker.gif

I guess it's not the finale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_of_Evil

Posted this auction on another thread, but if anyone needs a nice dress, it's a lot cheaper than Kirk's tunic: https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/costumes/susanne-wasson-lethe-paisley-and-lame-caftan-dress-from-the-episode-dagger-of-the-mind-of-star-trek-the-original-series-p/a/7318-89128.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-ThisAuction-120115

picard and riker clearly both have their tops still on there

"scotty is suspected of murdering a belly dancer"

the only blurb better than this in all of human history is what i first miswrote = "spotty is suspected of murdering a belly dancer" (bash street kids story)

retvrn

this is the least professional investigation in the annals of space

lol

i was expecting the trubble with tribbles to be annoying but it's actually fairly funny so far

wow you zooming thru the season
tribbles r great

now embarked on GAMESTERS *arena music intensifies*

not clear to me what the gamesters actually spend their quatloos on, they're just some brains on a table

if i recall correctly uhura outlasts the other 2 and unfair gangup on her by 3 takes her down
so uhra better than kirk and (chekhov?)

i was making my supper during that bit (multi-tasking is how i get to zoom so)

however by metrics devised in all other eps i judge uhuru >> kirk >> chekhov (who ius often a touch *too* silly)

s2 e21: "patterns of force" -- the one where there's basically nazis -- is a bit silly tbh

the most efficient society in history

it's gonna get ugly when mark s hits s3

think the frst ep is spock's brain

spock: "we find it more restful for the body than your so-called [unimpressed pause] vacation"

this one is pleasingly strange so far (s2 e22: "by any other name")

the male aliens favour very obvious dye-jobs

s2 e24: the ultimate computer

AI and self-drive in one go! mr spock is nerding out! the crew can all go home, ppl are no longer needed (or will there be a twist)

i don't remember half of these from mark's descriptions.

currently in the uk
Legend is showing TOS on weekdays (17:00, ~S02E15))
and TNG (18:00) with an omnibus on weekends (~S07E05)
Pick is also showing TNG (17:00 weekdays)
and ENT (18:00 weekdays, ~S03E08)
and VOY (19:00 weekdays, ~S04E14)

(and, for completeness, the 2009 film is on Film4 on monday, and Into Darkness is on wednesday)

i do remember when new episodes would be on bbc2 2 or 3 times a week and i'd rush home to watch it, but even that was nothing like this

i think all the films have just been shown on Film4 in order

i'm picking the things that amuse me hence the descriptions not always being pinpoint iconic

the new ones have someone from gloucestershire playing an engineer called 'scotty'...

yeah, mark, but i did a watch-through of my TOS dvds during lockdown and i just figured i'd know them better than i do.

(Dr Pulaski from TNG is in a couple of TOS episodes as different characters, end of S02, start of S03 iirc)

the musky timeliness of this ep is something: ultimate genius builds ultimate computer in his own image = it is insecure and belligerent

and tbf spock was actually the first to clamber off the bandwagon ("not to be disrespectful but m5 is behaving in a most human way")

teri garr superb as always

"Star Trek was the first job where I had a fairly big (for me) speaking part… I played Roberta Lincoln, a dippy secretary in a pink and orange costume with a very short skirt. Had the spin-off succeeded, I would have continued on as an earthling agent, working to preserve humanity. In a very short skirt."

Love Teri Garr.

^^^

Isis the Cat casting:
The uncredited human form of Isis was portrayed by actress, dancer and contortionist April Tatro. Her identity was unknown until 2019 when The Trek Files podcast cited a production call sheet for extras dated 5 January 1968. Host Larry Nemecek interviewed her for confirmation.[7]

https://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tos-assignmentearth-isis.jpg

Whenever anyone mentions Pulaski all I can think of is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGkKhGMDUVI

Incredible.

never picked riker as a guy who would undercook eggs

s3e1 stoked for the brain-ness!

that was a p silly ep tbh: this one s3e2 ("the enterprise incident") is funny

"i instinctively used… the vulcan deathgrip"