Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Grace_Lee_Whitney_William_Shatner_Corbomite_Manuever_Star_Trek_1966.jpg/500px-Grace_Lee_Whitney_William_Shatner_Corbomite_Manuever_Star_Trek_1966.jpg

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

i love how happy sulu always is

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

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/a/a7/Data_and_Lore_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121223001612

Oh no, hilarious visual Lore gag did not work.

mark, why is Balance boring? (could argue much of OG ST boring then) but am curious why.
maybe to get a sense, where would you put say Mirror, Mirror or Shore Leave?

shore leave is a little slackly written but i guess form follows function (plot as relaxation); mirror mirror i haven't got to yet

balance is too military and not much else, the romulans aren't an interesting foil and the situation doesn't bring out anything entertaining in the characters -- i feel like i've seen versions of this story many times elsewhere (mostly i'm enjoying getting reacquainted with OG ST, on the whole i like it way better than its successors)

watching in sequence from start then?

if so, trying to figger out where you are (all the seasons are a blur based on watching whatever eps/reading novelizations (before saw specific eps))

i mean some people can identify episodes exactly in whichever season - i cannot.

i still have (from the 70s) the james blish episode novelisations which is why i know episode names - and maybe ascribe more characterization /depth of meaning than was maybe put on on screen

yup, in the order netflix lines them up -- i just watched shore leave (s1e15)

got it - and just checked episode line up - we'll talk

the bit between kirk and 'finnegan' in shore leave just goes on for fucking ever

i hate shore leave so much
~interminable~

there's a whole thing with very bad representation of the irish in this show!

idk if balance of terror is important to the lore! all of the characters it introduces die and nobody ever talks about them again. (one of them returns as spock's literal dad, looking exactly the same because romulans are vulcans, but of course no one notices or remembers.) people just like the episode as a submarine movie, so if you don't then it doesn't have anything going for it. i enjoy lenard's performance tho.

oh wait lol i guess they talk about the romulans is what you mean. yeah. difficult to care about the romulans as such.

balance bof terror now maybe gained notice cos of cross reference from meta source in Strange New Worlds. not aware of how much weight it was given prior to that or if it lead to a lot of people going and watching the original reference episode to make more sense.
I know I've seen a lot of the original show but not sure exactly how much. Have downloaded it and started watching from start but wound up watching other stuff instead, not like Dr Who where I watched all of it through a couple of times over last 15 years.
But have it so if there are long periods of lockdown like time om future may just get around to it.

Did get to see that the original Christopher Pike does seem to have an absurdly stretched vertical haircut regardless of length shown in other photos. May have been angle filmed from but somehow when they show his hair it does seem to stand a lot taller than it does, so was that the reference for the absurdity of the Strange New Worlds do.

not aware of how much weight it was given prior to that or if it lead to a lot of people going and watching the original reference episode to make more sense.

We did watch it straight after SNW, because the husband had never seen it. And it is interesting as a piece of TV history, but not an especially entertaining episode on its own.

there's a whole thing with very bad representation of the irish in this show!

Standard issue Hollywood Oirish.

in general no doubt, but kirk's imagined assailant "finnegan" goes *some way* beyond that standard lol

of course the plot-point is that kirk is physically and mentally exhausted -- in the aftermath perhaps of the "submarine movie vs romulans" episode -- and hence his memories of his annoying bully of a college chum are wildly distorted, which does make for a funny read, but the performance of the actor playing finnegan is just a mental goblin-mode chaos of hooting and capering and leaping (and of course very bad accent) (maybe the accent is also kirk's construct! he can't hear accents!)

in "lore" terms shore leave is presumably why they started installing the holodecks: so mccoy could have tea with the white rabbit and then fvck a disney princess, be jousted to death with a lance-carrying auton, and on revival hang out with fake-fur bikini dollybirds to the rage of the ex-princess

*mccoy exits holodeck* time to hose it down lads 🙄