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Season 1; DVD
Topic Started: Feb 4 2007, 10:48 PM (1,387 Views)
Fesarius
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Surprising that we both watched the same episode of TOS. :)

I look for all of the splices in that android-making scene. I can't believe that they would actually put Shatner (or any actor) on a wheel that spun that fast. It had to be a camera speeding up, IMO.

There was a 1968 film (which I would LOVE to get on DVD, but it doesn't exist in that format yet) that dealt with centrifugal forces--The Power. Have you ever seen that one? It was eerie--I saw it when it first came out years ago.

I love the trailer to WALGMO as well. And when Andrea disintegrates android Kirk (whom is wearing the normal gold shirt), it's quite a teaser, eh? I also love the continuity--although it could have just been luck--in the type of pistol (not hand) phasers that Corby had. These were the same as those that show up in The Cage and in The Man Trap. In both of these episodes (as well as in WALGMO), the phasers are the older type. It is quite believable that Dr. Crater and Dr. Corby--each having been on their respective planets for a few years--would have the older type phasers (and not those that Kirk and company are usually outfitted with when part of landing parties).
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Last night, I watched Shore Leave--such a wonderful episode, filled with everything I love about Trek. The special features mentioned that the antennae appeared in the episode far too soon (at least for John D. F. Black's liking). He wanted that to be more mysterious, and thought 'letting the cat out of the bag' occurred too early in the episode. The music in Shore Leave rocks as well. :yes:

We also watched an episode of Mission: Impossible (DVD) entitled Ransom. It was a top-notch episode. The reason I am posting this in this thread is because ever since I started watching MI on DVD, I've been keeping an eye out for TOS crossovers. In tonight's episode, there were five! First, Merik[us] (from Bread and Circuses) was the star. Then, I noticed Jojo Kracko (from A Piece of the Action), Leslie (famous redshirt that starred in several TOS episodes), Don Marshall (Boma in The Galileo Seven), and Lieutenant ("I'll bet you credits to Navy beans we can put a dent in it") DeSalle! I haven't seen that many TOS stars in any one episode of anything before.
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I thought I'd mention that I wrote to Eddie Paskey recently (Lieutenant Leslie on about half of the TOS episodes). He wrote back, and was very kind and informative.

I thought it might be someone on this Board pretending to be Eddie baby, but I don't think it is any longer. There were a couple of things he said that led me to believe he was the genuine article. :)

It's neat how he got the name 'Leslie' for the series. Shatner apparently named him after his oldest daughter.

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Some eps I've recently watched...

Arena - Wow! What a great ep. All I remembered of this one from seeing it long ago was the fight with lizard-man. But the premise behind it was fantastic. I loved Kirk's line as they're chasing the Gorn ship, something to the effect that "we're the only police out here." Wow! That knocked me over. Talk about conceipt, arrogance, vengeance, vigilantism! And then later, it was all tempered by the realization that maybe the Federation was intruding on Gorn territory? Though I wonder why the Gorn could not have first asked the humans to move before obliterating their outpost, those thoughts are still quite poignant - both in the Cold War when the ep was created and today! :ftmth:

Taste of Armagedon - That was kind of eerie and scary. Interesting story concept, too. It's that kind of creative genius that makes Star Trek great! Though, where did the Prime Directive apply in all of that? Was it not enough just to get the Enterprise and her crew out of harm's way? :D

Return of the Archons - Good suspense episode - had a very Hitchcock kind of feel to it. However, the conflict resolution was quite cheesy - confuse the computer with logic until it blows up! Please... :rolleyes:

Squire of Gothos[sp?] - It was okay until the conflict resolution, again. The actor who played the Squire was very good. However, when it turned out to be just a little spoiled brat setting the cat's tail on fire, only to be reprimanded by his parents - it was a huge disappointment. :doh:

This Side of Paradise - Just watched this one last night. I really liked it. It was an interesting ep for Spock's character with the play of emotions that he has long supressed. Also an interesting critique on the influence of drugs and their false impressions. Loved the lines by Kirk about humans needing ambition, conflict, struggle - and then the one by the colony leader about how they have not accomplished anything, but wasted three years of the their lives. Good look at short term happiness vs. long term accomplishment and a wonderful rejection of Hippie culture (I noted the flower was the source of all the trouble! :lol: ). Though I do have to wonder if everyone beemed off the ship, how was Kirk able to keep beeming up and down! :P
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I love them all. I've written extensively on all of them over time, so I won't do that again here. I hope you continue to enjoy TOS.
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We watched Miri and What Are Little Girls Made Of? this morning. Both are IMO wonderful episodes, replete with many plot devices and other aspects that are worthy of much discussion.

The premise of Miri is a fascinating one--that of life prolongation. Too bad it was only half successful. I'd love to have gotten my hands on that piano. Restoration would have been a challenge. It was also neat to learn that two of Shatner's daughters show up in the episode, as do Kellie Flanagan (of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir fame), Michael J. Pollard, and of course, Kim Darby (Daniel Boone).

I love the phasers in WALGMO--they are of the older variety, used by Dr. Crater and showing up also in WNMHGB (as well as in a few other episodes). Kirk refers to the one held by Andrea as a 'phaser gun' (rather than just a phaser); and of course, we hear the early usage of 'Vulcanian' a few times.

Last night, I also watched Once Upon A Planet (from TAS); it was interesting that some of the sound effects used in that episode were used previously in The Devil in the Dark (specifically, the effect used when the circulating pump is first taken away by the Horta). I never noticed that before.

N.B.: We also watched the Season Two episode The Deadly Years a couple of nights ago. Interestingly, Chekov knows about corbomite, although he was absent from that Season One episode. Still, he smiles at Sulu, as if he had some inside knowledge of Kirk's (now second) usage of this 'element' for the purposes of bluffing. I still say that Sulu told him all about Khan--LOL. :Fes:

I love TOS the best of all series, but not because of special effects (which to me are still very interesting, especially since CGI was not used for any of them). Other reasons? I also submit that much of the makeup was far more creative (and more difficult to do) back then. Additionally, the story writing is so much richer in TOS than in any other series (excepting perhaps DS9); for me, the writing is far more important than any other aspect--the effects are just window dressing. I can come back to TOS episodes time and time again, and learn much about morality and other positive aspects from many of them. As an aside, I also believe TOS to have the best musical score(s) (read: stock musical vocabulary) of any of the six series.
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Squire of Gothos[sp?] - It was okay until the conflict resolution, again. The actor who played the Squire was very good. However, when it turned out to be just a little spoiled brat setting the cat's tail on fire, only to be reprimanded by his parents - it was a huge disappointment.

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Hope you're still loving the greatness which is TOS.

William Campbell played Trelane, as well as Koloth (in The Trouble With Tribbles and in the DS9 episode, Blood Oath).

Some have (keenly) speculated that Trelane was a member of the Q continuum. I think it's quite plausible, and would make for an interesting follow-up episode or film.
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Some have (keenly) speculated that Trelane was a member of the Q continuum. I think it's quite plausible, and would make for an interesting follow-up episode or film.


I really surpised that this didn't happened in TNG. It would made an excellent tie in with the TOS.
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Apr 23 2007, 05:26 PM
I thought I'd mention that I wrote to Eddie Paskey recently (Lieutenant Leslie on about half of the TOS episodes). He wrote back, and was very kind and informative.

I thought it might be someone on this Board pretending to be Eddie baby, but I don't think it is any longer. There were a couple of things he said that led me to believe he was the genuine article. :)

It's neat how he got the name 'Leslie' for the series. Shatner apparently named him after his oldest daughter.

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looks a bit like Eddie Haskel
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:lol: :wave2:

"Why Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling the Lad how much I admired your home decorating."
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looks a bit like Eddie Haskel

"Jackson Roykirk, James T. Kirk."

'Eddie Paskey, Eddie Haskel.'

"Yes. Similar." :Fes: ;)
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looks a bit like Eddie Haskel

"Jackson Roykirk, James T. Kirk."

'Eddie Paskey, Eddie Haskel.'

"Yes. Similar." :Fes: ;)



"Your logic is impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger."



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Some have (keenly) speculated that Trelane was a member of the Q continuum. I think it's quite plausible, and would make for an interesting follow-up episode or film.



Like DeLancie didn't make a serious study of that ep for his permformance in "Farpoint".

If you watch the episodes back to back, you can even spot some of the borrowed inflections. I'd say that Trelayne's character was at least a bit of a foundation for our favourite "Q".

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Franko,

I'll have to remember to do that sometime. Thanks for the tip. :)
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This is mostly for Fire, Minuet, Franko, and a few others that really like the writing of TOS.

We watched What Are Little Girls Made Of? tonight, and we noticed something interesting.

Nurse Chapel, before she beams down, answers Dr. Corby's first question with "Everything's all right now."

Later, when Dr. Corby first sees Christine (right before he kisses her), he says "Everything's all right now." Perhaps a really keen ear could have picked up that his response was mechanistic. I know I did not some thirty-five or so years ago, when I first saw the episode.

Lastly, Ruk imitates Christine by saying, "It's all right now" and "Everything is all right now." (Ruk also imitates Andrea, using an exact quote: "You must be Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.")

I found it to be illuminating and engaging. But for me it took many viewings to pick up on this.

And how about this wonderful dialogue near the beginning of the episode:

Dr. Korby has discovered
that as their sun dimmed,
the inhabitants of this planet moved underground
from an open environment to this dark world.
When you were a student of his, Christine,
you must have often heard Dr. Korby remark
how freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit.
The culture of Exo-Ill proved his theory.
When they moved from light to darkness,
they replaced freedom with a mechanistic culture.
Dr. Korby has been able to uncover elements of this culture
which will revolutionize the universe
when freed from this cavernous environment.
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In the above post, I neglected to address my CSB and CSS--my very bad! :Fes:

I edited the post above to be more accurate. ;)
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