Yes there's been a fair bit of backlash against that milestone always getting mentioned w/o explaining how unpleasant the context for it is.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 25 June 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
also so far it's the most boring episode i've watched!
― mark s, Sunday, 25 June 2023 18:34 (ten months ago) link
or unengaging is maybe a better word
I love that episode. It's so bizarre and Shatner and Nimoy's acting is so ott. When I saw it as a very small kid, I immediately identified with Alexander. His decision not to get even seemed really profound to me.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 25 June 2023 20:15 (ten months ago) link
The only good thing about that episode is that it allowed someone to make this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSVb9bQeqM
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2023 20:48 (ten months ago) link
the concept of wink of an eye is pleasingly silly but it also has kathie brown (as the glamorous high-speed scalosian) giving a strangely engaging performance, perky AND melancholy
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:58 (ten months ago) link
she was in a TON of television
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:59 (ten months ago) link
Just starting this. Spock and T’Pring are manifesting my relationship ideals
― Tàr Shrek (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 02:36 (ten months ago) link
Dear Abby, my fiancee recently arranged for me to fight my best friend to the death... am I the asshole? Should I break up with her?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 03:12 (ten months ago) link
Also, whenever an away team beams out somewhere I can’t help it, I say “welcome! to Mississauga”
― Tàr Shrek (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:13 (ten months ago) link
Hahah talking about Strange New Worlds, then?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:19 (ten months ago) link
omg wink of an eye has my favorite OTT costume, that off the shoulder + one legged number that Kathie Brown wears is so crazy - but also the way that fabric reads on-camera? Chef’s kiss. William Ware Theiss, mad genius http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/066.jpghttps://i0.wp.com/timetravelnexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/StarTrekTOS_s03e11_DeelaKirkBridge.jpg?fit=1280%2C965the amount of double sided tape she must have on to keep the whole getup in place truly boggles the mind
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:19 (ten months ago) link
when it starts to slip she just moves really fast
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:20 (ten months ago) link
honestly, i can’t imagine what these women went through fashion-wise for this show … i would love a book just about that and their grumpy anecdotes
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:23 (ten months ago) link
if i was an alien in a spangly cape with a big bald skull for a head i'd wear some kind of headgear out in the dusty wind but no
https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Trek-Empath10.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 30 June 2023 17:09 (ten months ago) link
now watching elaan of troyius for the first time in my life and lol it's wild: "tell me more of the ancient earth ritual called spanking"
― mark s, Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:46 (ten months ago) link
the title annoyed me at first but now i like it
― mark s, Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:47 (ten months ago) link
Wonder if it has been noted yet on this thread that ILX0r Josefa has the name of that actress at his fingertips along with that of seemingly ever other actress that ever appeared on TOS.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 July 2023 17:14 (ten months ago) link
France Nuyen. Further discussion on two of my threads.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 July 2023 17:20 (ten months ago) link
TIL Meg Wyllie was both a TOS Talosian and a Vanishing Point highway patrol dispatcher
https://live.staticflickr.com/4461/26192794099_c83dcf140a_c.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 July 2023 04:53 (ten months ago) link
"silence! the chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me!"
me^^^ posting on ilx
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:31 (ten months ago) link
actually this ep is kind of exhausting
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
watched The Motion Picture. istr the name being an attempt to put it above all the films around the same time that were just 'the Movie'. and it had ideas of 2001 about it, those long slow shots of the ship. but i think it underused the original crew. they even got yeoman rand back and nurse, now doctor, chapel. but all i saw Rand do was kill people in a transporter accident.
surprised that it was as early as '79, i thought they'd left a bigger gap.
― koogs, Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:06 (nine months ago) link
In the interest of completeness, I note the presence of German-American actress Barbara Bouchet, who later moved to Italy and appeared in many B-films there, in the episode “By Any Other Name.”
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:15 (nine months ago) link
this is the one with all the people outside looking in, which just spooked the fvck out of me when i was like 10
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:10 (nine months ago) link
*much* slower than i remember plotwise
I guess every era has its own unintentional freakishness, but I don't know if we can ever get the limited budget spare stage dressing surrealism back again.
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Like the closest equivalent from SNW is... Toronto?https://i.redd.it/toronto-appeared-in-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-this-week-v0-b28qitsug29b1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ec9a30aa2b5c4b5d24b07a4f3411a4628e130b0
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
the mise-en-scene for the empath is just gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6xctl_Z8I
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:38 (nine months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/885840ab2ff5cfccae1f6af996a7f697/tumblr_nu7v8qMSEK1ufg9h8o3_1280.jpg
https://64.media.tumblr.com/601090eb4b03821aaacb790bf33d895a/tumblr_nu7v1jMDHB1ufg9h8o1_1280.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:39 (nine months ago) link
Opps
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:40 (nine months ago) link
Ha! That would make for an awesome quadtych or whatever the 4 panel version of a triptych is though.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:43 (nine months ago) link
speaking of four, why is the the entire star trek universe divided into "quadrants" and is this a helpful geographical construct? i say no
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:49 (nine months ago) link
Because it is similar to quatloo?
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:55 (nine months ago) link
The Milky Way Galaxy is a round, flat, barred-spiral galaxy. It totally makes sense to divide it up into four quadrants https://www.screenbinge.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Background-Of-The-Star-Trek-Quadrants-1536x864.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 9 July 2023 16:54 (nine months ago) link
i don't think i really ever grasped they were just tootling around a single galaxy is my only excuse here (and in fact one region of that galaxy)
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:00 (nine months ago) link
I think to get to the other galaxies one has to first pass through a gigantic ion storm that circles the perimeter of ours iirc.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:03 (nine months ago) link
yes also in my defence i am often only half-paying attention
― mark s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:04 (nine months ago) link
if you get to the edge of the Milky Way you fall off
― mh, Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
Right, like those Terry Pratchett books.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:31 (nine months ago) link
not me, i'm built different -- i turn into a god
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:09 (nine months ago) link
What does god need with a starship?
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 15:52 (nine months ago) link
Something to play with given to him by his parents iircz
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 16:07 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A65N3Efnn0
― mark s, Monday, 10 July 2023 16:18 (nine months ago) link
Attempting to leave the galaxy results in ESP anomalies and eye discolouration, iirc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 10 July 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
IIRC, there's also mass hallucinations and an ability to bring thought into reality but I think you have to get to the edge of the universe for that not just leaving the galaxy
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:10 (nine months ago) link
which quadrant is that in
― mark s, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:13 (nine months ago) link
In the Russian quadrant, over near the Riesenrad.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:21 (nine months ago) link
I never knew the old galaxy before the ion storms.
― The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:22 (nine months ago) link
The Federation can't wait to gentrify M33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1Locwd8Ps
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 July 2023 17:25 (nine months ago) link