Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

When they spruced up TOS digitally, to what extent did they alter that stuff, and to what extend was it just like the Olivetti Corporation cleaning up the Sistine Ceiling?

i am still watching in sequence yes, so mirror mirror is all cued up :) >:)-

I wish I read that Section 31 essay before unloading in the Picard thread.

so delved into the burning question of Apollo and Carolyn's baby - according to Memory Alpha

In Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier, Mark McHenry is a descendant of the child of Apollo and Carolyn Palamas (revealed to have been impregnated during the events of this episode), and has at least some of Apollo's powers.In 2376, he left the USS Excalibur in non-corporeal form to guard against his evil, divine relatives.

Apparently he was a friend of Worf's at Star Fleet Academy.

Producers originally wanted Jon Voight for Apollo but due to another project Michael Forest was cast as Apollo. Forest and Nimoy had previously acted together in a stage production of Genet's Deathwatch and starred in the film version (didn't even know it existed!) also starring Paul Mazursky, Gavin Macleod and directed by Vic Morrow !!!

no wonder scotty was in such a palaver

fun fact: mirror mirror (assuming that's the evil spock one) aired the day i was born

Did you come out with a goatee?

Heh

Search for Spock on film 4. he's dead, he's dead, she's dead, she's dead 8(

(st4 on tomorrow. not that i recommend it)

I am not dead/evil Spock!

^title of posthumous Nimoy memoir

i like that mirror kirk hasn't yet spotted than non-mirror spock has no beard

life aboard the alt-enterprise: not dull

the great whale caper is just abt to begin on my TV

lol this one really nips thru its plot

everyone on the bridge except uhura is wearing some kind of dressing gown

re the courtcase at the end: the judge shd have said "nevetheless rules are rules" and banged the lot of them in pokey

the saturated greens in "the apple" (s2 e5) feel lke colours that didn't even exist in the 60s (on TV or off)

Not even in The Prisoner?

dull lawn greens only, the village was no poisoned eden

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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