Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Half man.

Spock blubbing like a child, pull yourself together half man!

Half amazing

Wow, this is the actual episode where Scotty says, "I canna change the laws of physics!"

greatest not-yet-living scotsman

Kirk's got it now - or is he just acting? 'Just' acting, it's Shatner, LOL.

McCoy and Scotty the unlikely heroes as Spock went through some sort of Oedipal crisis and Kirk lost it for all of two (very intense) minutes.

every kirk minute is an intense minute

that rattle music cue signifying infection would be useful rn

every kirk minute is an intense minute

just took a stroll through this thread and yikes, the ilx trek discourse was quite a bit less enlightened back in 2001...

Surely:

the ilx trek discourse was quite a bit less enlightened back in 2001...

Currently showing the episode which introduced the character of Khan - which I'd never seen before, in fact there's been a few I hadn't seen before, which surprises me. So it was news to me that:

1. Khan is from 20th century Earth.

2. He was involved in a 'eugenics war' on Earth in... 1993!

3. He's Indian - which explains the name Khan, I thought it was just LOL Star Trek writers using a name that sounded like a 'science fiction' name. He is, however, described as Sikh when Khan is a Muslim name.

All of which goes to prove I am no Trekkie, I suppose.

Plus what a fucking howler of a blunder by Kirk at the end of the episode.

An Indian played by a Mexican! Close enough for 1960s TV I guess.

a mysterious illness running rampant on the Enterprise

actually 22% of all star trek episodes across all series have infection plots

3. He's Indian - which explains the name Khan, I thought it was just LOL Star Trek writers using a name that sounded like a 'science fiction' name. He is, however, described as Sikh when Khan is a Muslim name.

The synopsis for this morning's Star Trek episode:

"McCoy becomes deranged and changes the past. Can guest star Joan Collins help?"

Get your popcorn out.

https://www.treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/city-on-the-edge-of-forever-07.jpg

IIRC he was named after Gene Roddenberry's old army pal or something like that?

Kim Noonien Singh, Roddenberry used the name in an attempt to get in touch with him, which obviously failed as he tried again in TNG with Noonien Soong.

The synopsis for this morning's Star Trek episode:

"McCoy becomes deranged and changes the past. Can guest star Joan Collins help?"

Get your popcorn out.

Considered to be possibly the best episode of the original series.

Not according to Harlan Ellison

are they going to wrap around to the beginning?

(oh, that's only the end of TOS series 1, i thought it was the end of the whole thing)

>Considered to be possibly the best episode of the original series.

pretty intense. Edith Keeler aka Joan Collins death came unexpected.
Bones accusing Kirk was even more disturbing ..."YOU killed her!"

Did you notice Floyd’s Barber Shop in the background?

what's up with the star trek tos technique where just someone's eyes (usually kirk's) are lit, in a band, while the rest of the face/body is in relative darkness? was that sort of thing common?

FLOYD RULES. Actually I don't know what Floyd’s Barber Shop is... or was.

https://i.imgur.com/QoyJH2E.jpg

In Trek? absolutely! I recently watched ST: Nemesis and they did it even then on a closeup of Troi.

https://ascmag.com/blog/shot-craft/eye-lights

And, of course, the introductory soft focus for attractive female guest star/ Kirk's latest squeeze.

Another thing I've noticed is the sheer amount of make up everyone wears - especially McCoy!

So they had this great German cinematographer Karl Freund who worked for Desilu on I Love Lucy who figured out how to shoot a sitcom along with this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Daniels?wprov=sfti1 who also directed many, many episodes of another Desilu production, Star Trek.

FLOYD RULES. Actually I don't know what Floyd’s Barber Shop is... or was.

We never got that over here.

It’s kind of a US version of The Sweeney except...

I was bored and unwell and put the animated series on Netflix yesterday and watched an episode called The Jihad. It was the most baffling 20 minutes of cartoon show I think Ive ever watched.

- An alien shaped like a badly taxidermied cat gathers Kirk, Spock and a ragtag team of other aliens (ft: some wormulon dude, an amazonian with big tits, a lizard and a winged eagle thing)
- they are meant to be going to some "mad planet" to locate a holy relic bcs if they dont, the people of said planet will start a jihad bcs its stolen and will kill everyone for some reason
- oh and btw this planets atmos goes from 200Kelvin below to 200 above freezing and is covered in volcanoes and earthquakes but NBD
- nekminnit they are all on the surface just hanging out in this volcanic minus kelvin weather with NO PROTECTVE GEAR, amazon lady barely has anything on, no one is cold/hot/bothered in any way.
- amazon lady comments on how men are dumb but hey Kirk yr kinda hot wanna make out? She does this multiple times during the episode
- oh no a lava flow is heading our way, and we cant outrun it! Quick lets spend 10 minutes reconfiguring the energymotron or whatever to make our escape! Oh no its still going to outrun us. Never mind one of the crew can FLY and could have I dunno, picked them all up in his talons or something?
- they find the thingy theyre looking for but oh no its a trap! Eagle dude always does this
- by this point I gave up and I lost track of WTH was going on to be quite honest.

yesteryear is the only tas episode worth watching. maybe the clip of the holodeck too.

i had never seen the one before where kirk gives a dramatic reading of the constitution to a band of white mongol (?) liberty-worshippers

That one is kind of bad, despite that classic moment.

yesteryear is the only tas episode worth watching. maybe the clip of the holodeck too.

I like it because the episodes are shorter

Series two has started. Obviously took them a while to get Chekov's wig right, he looks ridiculous in the these early episodes.

There are some classics in the early part of Season 2.

Didn't Roddenberry go missing towards the end of season 2?

the gene l. coon era was the best -- he started doing the script-editing/showrunning when Miri was being filmed, stayed on until around halfway through season 2. he amped up the kirk/spock/mccoy dynamic and made the show more lighthearted.

Sounds about right.

that dynamic = "Earth people have moved beyond racism but Vulcans are fair game"

Roddenberry stepped back a bit after Miri in season 1, giving the main line producer/showrunner job to Coon. then later he pretty much abandoned the show when nbc gave season 3 a bad slot.

(xp) That reminds me, Kirk called Scotty a "stiff necked thistle head" at one point in today's episode.