Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

oddly, My Darling Clementine was on yesterday (which is the same story, despite sounding like a musical). it was one of two John Ford films on at that time (against How The West Was Won on bbc2)

Before I ever saw that movie myself I had already seen an episode of M*A*S*H wherein they watched it.

Lol at Wavy Gravy factoid.

https://www.startrek.com/news/the-surprising-connections-between-star-trek-and-bob-dylan

https://www.polygon.com/23744560/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-stream-free-youtube-season-one

FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I CAN TOUCH THE SKY

same tbf

an ep with HATS (black swimming caps with a dinnerplate inelegantly inserted)

plus the priestesses have pretty frocks

Counterpoint to not paying for the new series: Paramount just canceled Prodigy (which it originally renewed) and is pulling it from streaming altogether.

ALL the film's are on this week on UK tv, often at stupid o'clock.

DS9 started a run on Legend in Friday i think, i missed the first 45 minutes. I've only seen it the once, the first time it aired. it's started on the religion nonsense already though. and something about pickard and the borg.

i am stuck on plato's stepchildren (*the kiss* still to come)

seems a bad episode to have such a historic TV moment jammed into it tbh

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.

also so far it's the most boring episode i've watched!

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.

The only good thing about that episode is that it allowed someone to make this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSVb9bQeqM

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

she was in a TON of television

Just starting this. Spock and T’Pring are manifesting my relationship ideals

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?

Also, whenever an away team beams out somewhere I can’t help it, I say “welcome! to Mississauga”

Hahah talking about Strange New Worlds, then?

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.jpg

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the amount of double sided tape she must have on to keep the whole getup in place truly boggles the mind

when it starts to slip she just moves really fast

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

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

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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"

the title annoyed me at first but now i like it

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.

France Nuyen. Further discussion on two of my threads.

TIL Meg Wyllie was both a TOS Talosian and a Vanishing Point highway patrol dispatcher

https://live.staticflickr.com/4461/26192794099_c83dcf140a_c.jpg

"silence! the chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me!"

me^^^ posting on ilx

actually this ep is kind of exhausting

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.

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.”

this is the one with all the people outside looking in, which just spooked the fvck out of me when i was like 10

*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

the mise-en-scene for the empath is just gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6xctl_Z8I

https://64.media.tumblr.com/885840ab2ff5cfccae1f6af996a7f697/tumblr_nu7v8qMSEK1ufg9h8o3_1280.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/601090eb4b03821aaacb790bf33d895a/tumblr_nu7v1jMDHB1ufg9h8o1_1280.jpg

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Opps

Ha! That would make for an awesome quadtych or whatever the 4 panel version of a triptych is though.

speaking of four, why is the the entire star trek universe divided into "quadrants" and is this a helpful geographical construct? i say no

Because it is similar to quatloo?

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

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)

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.

yes also in my defence i am often only half-paying attention