Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

always liked the divider screens in the enterprise living quarters

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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

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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?

I posted upthread already about it, of course I did.

a fun thing to be hired for wd be minor crew extra where yr role is to be walking along a corridor with lots of other crew members in various directions when an enemy vessel fires at the enterprise and you then have to hurl yrself around and stagger into ppl for a few seconds

otm truly a dream job

THE CORBOMITE MANOEUVRE: the baby-sized alien is played by ron howard's brother clint and he gives a terrific performance, this ends up being a very likeable episode mainly thanks to him imo

“Have some Tranya…”

clint is so good! i also like the melting-faced “what if squidward but alien” projection thingo

and yet this is how wikipedia chooses to illustrate this ep

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yeoman janice never a bad call
but still yes, weird choice

at least it's not the whiny helmsman

this is going back a few days, but wasn't a TNG episode banned in the UK due to a mention of "the irish reunification of ____"?

of next year

yes, same year as the bell riots. can't wait.

heavy sigh on the bell riots

"you don't know what happened to captain pike? there's been sub-space chatter about it for months"

proof that trek has twitter (but serving vessels are blocked from receiving it)

so uhura is basically their social media officer is what you are saying

everyone sitting down is online

so will take any and every opportunity to say in 85/86 (age 13/14) got to meet Nichelle Nichols at a comic book/sci-fi con - got a picture with, signed photo, and a kiss on the cheek

still flying from that decades later

also when I first out at her talk about her work with NASA

feel the talosians might have made less of a hideous botch of rebuilding vina if they'd just decided to fashion her as another talosian (maybe with a smaller less bulbously bald and veiny head)

^real talk

Susan Oliver’s Wikipedia page kind of interesting.

Just found out that, in addition to being in The Searchers, Jeffrey Hunter was also in Sergeant Rutledge.

And he died in 1969 as a result of the aftereffect of an on-set explosion while filming something in Spain.

got a picture with, signed

Fantastic work, well done. I was trying to explain the joys of conventions to my sceptical husband the other day. I said they're a bit like festivals but instead of music there is just glorious merch and other nerds who will not laugh at you for wearing a communicator pin. (Well, the one and only con I went to was like that. Back in 1991.)

My lone convention was 1991 - Bones and Dr. Crusher were the headliners.

"and the ship! all this power surging and throbbing, yet under control! are you like that captain?"

i won't say this is an unusually horny ep bcz they're all unusually horny but lol ffs

kirk's response is a puckish little smirk

strap in for her reading of the title soliloquy (i love this one tho lol)

purred line about throbbing power on the cramped promenade is v funny yes but presumably she is deliberately appealing to kirk's own always-just-surpressed identification w kodos types, as also seen in space seed, or in his appallingly ahistorical assessment of nazism in patterns of force, or when he wears eyeliner

*suppressed

i know balance of terror is "important to the lore" but i think it's boring