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303: '''The Paradise Syndrome''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-08) Hey, finally the "I am Kirok!" episode. | (First watched 2009-04-08) Hey, finally the "I am Kirok!" episode. | ||
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304: '''And the Children Shall Lead''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-09) I like the goofiness of being able to summon a spirite/energy being/whatever by just replaying the summoning ceremony's audio. I guess we viewers are damned lucky the glowing guy in robes didn't appear for all of us. | (First watched 2009-04-09) I like the goofiness of being able to summon a spirite/energy being/whatever by just replaying the summoning ceremony's audio. I guess we viewers are damned lucky the glowing guy in robes didn't appear for all of us. | ||
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305: '''Is There in Truth No Beauty?''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-11) Hey, Dr. Pulaski! And she's blind! Funny how they made such a big deal about how even with an advanced sensor dress, a blind person shouldn't pilot the ship. A biiit different from [[Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1|the first season of TNG]] when Geordi and his VISOR helmed the Enterprise-D. | (First watched 2009-04-11) Hey, Dr. Pulaski! And she's blind! Funny how they made such a big deal about how even with an advanced sensor dress, a blind person shouldn't pilot the ship. A biiit different from [[Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1|the first season of TNG]] when Geordi and his VISOR helmed the Enterprise-D. | ||
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306: '''Spectre of the Gun''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-13) More half-assed logic from Spock that turns out to be absolutely correct. Their knockout gas doesn't work, and he concludes this means they're in an unreal situation. OK, that's fair. But from there he determines that things are only as real as they believe them to be... based on what? Maybe their alien captors just replaced their knockout mixture with high tech. Maybe it's a simulation that prevents dangerous toxins from being created, but where bullets are just as real. With this kind of logic, Spock would end up dead in a Reg Barclay holodeck production. | (First watched 2009-04-13) More half-assed logic from Spock that turns out to be absolutely correct. Their knockout gas doesn't work, and he concludes this means they're in an unreal situation. OK, that's fair. But from there he determines that things are only as real as they believe them to be... based on what? Maybe their alien captors just replaced their knockout mixture with high tech. Maybe it's a simulation that prevents dangerous toxins from being created, but where bullets are just as real. With this kind of logic, Spock would end up dead in a Reg Barclay holodeck production. | ||
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307: '''Day of the Dove''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-15) Another energy being. This one seems to go about things in a needlessly complicated way. It needs to feed on hatred, and can manipulate people's perceptions to help get it. Given that, wouldn't it have been simpler to just use the crew of one ship against itself, rather than needing to bring together a small portion of the Enterprise's crew against Klingons? And what was with going at extremely high warp? If the dilithium crystals busted they weren't going to actually reach anyplace, and putting the ship in danger would end the game right quick. | (First watched 2009-04-15) Another energy being. This one seems to go about things in a needlessly complicated way. It needs to feed on hatred, and can manipulate people's perceptions to help get it. Given that, wouldn't it have been simpler to just use the crew of one ship against itself, rather than needing to bring together a small portion of the Enterprise's crew against Klingons? And what was with going at extremely high warp? If the dilithium crystals busted they weren't going to actually reach anyplace, and putting the ship in danger would end the game right quick. | ||
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308: '''For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky''' ''[[1968]] [[November 8]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-04-29) Meeting a species for the first time, deciding to stay and marrying one, divorcing one and leaving all on the same day? Isn't that a bit fast, Bones? | (First watched 2008-04-29) Meeting a species for the first time, deciding to stay and marrying one, divorcing one and leaving all on the same day? Isn't that a bit fast, Bones? | ||
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309: '''The Tholian Web''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-16) I've seen episodes that follow this up, books, comics... but finally I see the original. It's interesting, given the title of the episode, how incidental the Tholians are to the main plot. They look weird and set up their fancy web, but essentially it just sets a time limit on the Enterprise's attempted rescue activities, as many other things could have. | (First watched 2009-04-16) I've seen episodes that follow this up, books, comics... but finally I see the original. It's interesting, given the title of the episode, how incidental the Tholians are to the main plot. They look weird and set up their fancy web, but essentially it just sets a time limit on the Enterprise's attempted rescue activities, as many other things could have. | ||
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310: '''Plato's Stepchildren''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-21) Considering what is said about Shatner as an actor on set, I wonder if he found the ridiculous things he had to do in this episode insulting, or gratifying since it put so much attention on him. This episode just goes on and on with the scene where he's being forced to dance or act like a pony for Alexander and yada yada yada. | (First watched 2009-04-21) Considering what is said about Shatner as an actor on set, I wonder if he found the ridiculous things he had to do in this episode insulting, or gratifying since it put so much attention on him. This episode just goes on and on with the scene where he's being forced to dance or act like a pony for Alexander and yada yada yada. | ||
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311: '''Wink of an Eye''' | |||
(First watched 2009-04-22) Interesting premise executed in an extremely flawed and inconsistent way. The sped-up people seemed to be going so fast that the regular people were completely still... except when they were sometimes just really slow. And at those kinds of speeds, the time taken in this episode should've been months? They show a regular-time scene of Spock and McCoy, but on either side of it there are fast-time scenes with Scott frozen in the same place? During the time when it's still showing fast-time with Kirk and Spock at the end, it goes to an external shot of the Enterprise which appears to be orbiting at regular speed? | (First watched 2009-04-22) Interesting premise executed in an extremely flawed and inconsistent way. The sped-up people seemed to be going so fast that the regular people were completely still... except when they were sometimes just really slow. And at those kinds of speeds, the time taken in this episode should've been months? They show a regular-time scene of Spock and McCoy, but on either side of it there are fast-time scenes with Scott frozen in the same place? During the time when it's still showing fast-time with Kirk and Spock at the end, it goes to an external shot of the Enterprise which appears to be orbiting at regular speed? | ||
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313: ''' | 312: '''The Empath''' | ||
(First watched 2009-04-25) So the Federation knows a star is going nova soon, and there are multiple inhabited planets orbiting it... and their response is to set up an observation station where they leave two guys? What the hell. At least one of the planets had a highly advanced civilization so it's not like there was even a Prime Directive concern in that case. | |||
Though for that matter, maybe that civilization could've saved more of the solar system's inhabitants if they'd spent more time working on evacuation and less time setting up moral tests for species from other planets. | |||
Gem seems a pretty stupid name to pick for the empath, considering their tiny group already had a Jim in it. That aside, though, she was more interesting than the average Star Trek woman-of-the-week. No vocal communication made for something completely different, and with all that makeup on (though not quite enough to make her a full-blown Earth mime) she looked like a doll. | |||
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313: '''Elaan of Troyius''' | |||
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314: ''' ''' | 314: '''Whom Gods Destroy''' | ||
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