Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

always found the description of the unworshipped gods physically disintegrating from ennui kind of affecting

I'm gonna make a thread of actors who appeared on Star Trek and also on The Golden Girls because that seems like a fun thing to do. 🧵

— Will Burrows 🍞🌹 (@dwight_tokem) January 16, 2023

ILX0r Josefa basically did the same thing on another thread with respect to Star Trek: TOS and Hawaii Five-0 iirc.

I believe there may have been mention of Mannix as well.

Watched episode 4 (where Trip gets pregnant), which is actually kind of amusing in a lowered expectations kind of way (and is maybe only half as offensive as the Quark gender swap episode).

nothing else wd suffice so i began rewatching OG from the very start on netflix

this time ((s1e2: the man trap) uhura is flirting w/spock

also kirk just said "stop thinking with your glands" to bones

Yeah, it’s a trip watching the very early episodes when they hadn’t quite gotten the characters down yet

I was watching an old "Outer Limits" the other night with Sally Kellerman, and was reminded how striking she was. I remember thinking the same when I saw "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Not sure why they dropped her character, of whom Troy was, I suppose, a reiteration.

Oh, I guess it was because they killed her off LOL

i like how the early ones haven't yet completely devolved into the kirk/spock/mccoy show

yes there was a lot more ship time -- yeoman janice rand bringing sulu a meal and petting his barking plant

on to charlie x ("are you a girl?") (no it's yeoman janice rand)

i grew quite fond of Ensign Janice aka basket-head

yeoman sorry

i am yeoman hear me roar

Sally Kellerman got mixed up with that arrogant dude and her eyes went all silver iirc.

Grace Lee Whitney passed away in Coarsegold, CA in 2015.

"The Chukchansi and Picyunne Indians still reside in Coarsegold. They are best known for their intricate basket weaving"

It all ties together.

TIL while researching mermaids:
Trek’s Yeoman Rand, Grace Lee Whitney was the original model for the Chicken of the Sea mermaid in 1950. https://t.co/vcphmYusQC#startrek #yeomanrand #graceleewhitney #mermaid #mermaids #monstertheory #capitalism pic.twitter.com/UohlBN6Cl6

— 🌻Patrick Ijima-Washburn🌻 (@patokon) October 13, 2021

chicken (of the sea) in a basket

#capitalism

s1e3 "where no man has gone before": tbh this is kind of the same story as charlie x (how to handle an extremely self-absorbed someone with mental superpowers) (ans = gingerly)

Gerald Fried just passed away btw who composed the immortal Amok Time score along with the exoticizing Paradise Syndrome and the gothic Catspaw (and a bunch of cool shit for TV movies)

Elsewhere I read that he was the last living STTOS composer

xp Hotness an additional superpower that surely tripped Kirk up

his own hotness yes

s1e5: it's a plague which causes a sad man to lose hope, another to become as irish as only star trek can imagine (it's a lot but it's not very authentic)… and a glistening sulu to become a swashbuckling pirate wth his top off

unicorn dog

https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/06.jpg

I think I said it in some other thread but it should have been easy for the crew to spot evil Kirk as he wears far more eyeliner when he's evil.

also he accessorizes

lol

always liked the divider screens in the enterprise living quarters

https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/captain-kirk-quarters.jpg

yes!

my favorite is the sequined blankets / pillows in the sick bay

it should have been easy for the crew to spot evil Kirk as he wears far more eyeliner when he's evil.

it is easy iirc-- one of the best parts of mirror mirror is its correctly judging that while an evil spock might be the series' most formidable villain, an evil kirk could only be a sweating idiot who gets captured in five minutes

otm re sequins. a lot of peaceful shots fading up on them to the thrum-thrum of the bar charts.

was sure for a moment actually that the 23c-kitsch supremacist-revival wall art in mark's pic was just a large swatch of sickbay blanket

William Ware Theiss must have got a wholesale deal on that sequined material, i just picture bolts of it in a room somewhere - it shows up on walls, as dresses, pillows, blankets, it’s funny once you start to notice it

like the set dresser’s like “this stuff AGAIN? ok fine” *staples it to a wall*

choosing to think of this as a d&d alignment grid

chaotic evil is my fave

https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/06.jpg

if i were dr roger korby i wd hide the sex robot in a cupboard when my fiance came on a visit

BBC banned miri after a single showing, which i saw: so this is the first time i watched it since 1970

O RLY?

Part of some blanket Michael J. Pollard ban?

"deemed too intense for minors"

(bbc had trek filed as a kids' show)

What a grup thing to do.

it's a stressful ep, they shd ban it again imo

Kirk gets a bit paedo iirc

the seeming children are over 300 years old plus yeoman janice rand is present the whole time

but yes

also it stars a very young jackie chiles from seinfeld, hence outrageous! egregious! preposterous!

i imagine every single school the next day was full of "bonk, bonk, on the head"

I know I for one never stopped saying that or at least thinking it.

Y'all know the thing about Floyd's barbershop, don't you?