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315: '''Let That Be Your Last Battlefield''' | 315: '''Let That Be Your Last Battlefield''' | ||
(First watched 2009-04-29) Ahh, the classic example of racial hatred that seems obvious to the participants, but baffling to the outsiders. | |||
So Bele had been chasing Lokai for 50,000 years? And it only took them a few hours to reach their home planet? Neither had stopped in in the '''dozens of millenia''' to check and see if '''everyone was dead'''? | |||
Their planet is from an unexplored area of space, but Kirk knows where it's located? | |||
This is a comment that goes beyond this episode, but what's up with Starfleet officers' self-destruct codes only using the first few letters and numbers. For something so important, that would greatly increase the chance of somebody getting it even by random chance. "1 A 2 B", yeah, nobody would think of that, genius. It's almost as good as the "1 2 3 4 5" combination in [[Spaceballs]]. Relatedly, the ability to shut it off was much less strict than Kirk would've had us believe. He was all "After counting down to 5, nothing can be done!", but he starts shutting it off after it's already counted to 6, but clearly takes several seconds to actually get to the important stuff about giving a cancellation code. Not so impossible if you can just stall the computer like that. | |||
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316: ''' ''' | 316: '''The Mark of Gideon''' | ||
(First watched 2009-04-30) Argh. So this is a planet of people who have long since all-but-conquered death and have an overpopulation problem... and haven't expanded into space? They don't even use contraception because they view life as so sacred, but introducing a plague is kosher? These people who don't leave the planet and have had limited contact with the Federation are able to build a ground-based partially-functional duplicate of the Enterprise so exact that it fools the captain? It just doesn't make good sense. | |||
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317: ''' ''' | 317: '''That Which Survives''' | ||
(First watched 2009-04-30) Fascinating. I thought the scenery looked familiar... but I'd just ''imagined'' it. I read a novel which took place immediately after this episode, so the planet and some of the basics of the situation seemed as if I'd seen them before. | |||
As is often the case, Spock is very precise with his numbers... but in some cases it doesn't seem worth it. Now, when he chides someone for telling him "and a half" hours instead of .337 or whatever, that's worth a quibble over; 10 minutes could be a lot when they're in an emergency situation. However, bitching at Scotty for saying 15 minutes instead of 14.87 is stupid, and takes more time than the .13 minute difference. Hell, he probably could've said 14.88 minutes and been right, too, since he'd have been able to get it out of his mouth a syllable faster. | |||
Kirk also seemed too touchy at Sulu's theories. I mean, Kirk was saying not to make guesses without evidence... but the Enterprise not being there while extra radiation ''was'' seems like evidence to me, and Sulu saying the ship could've been destroyed was a valid possibility. His bringing up of the Tunguska blast was also interesting, but again Kirk sniped. At least that time it was with a funny line, though, saying that if he'd wanted Russian history he'd have brought along Chekov. | |||
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318: ''' ''' | 318: '''The Lights of Zetar''' | ||
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