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[[Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2]] | [[Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2]] | ||
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301: '''Spock's Brain''' ''[[1968]] [[September 20]]'' | 301: '''Spock's Brain''' ''[[1968]] [[September 20]]'' | ||
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So the man's surviving without his brain. Is it REALLY necessary to install a remote-control system to make him walk around? | So the man's surviving without his brain. Is it REALLY necessary to install a remote-control system to make him walk around? | ||
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302: '''The Enterprise Incident''' | 302: '''The Enterprise Incident''' | ||
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(First watched 2009-04-04) Pretty flagrant aggressive action on the part of the Federation here. Kirk and Spock use subterfuge to steal the cloaking device, but it's perfectly clear who did it. Considering how at odds the Federation and Romulans are, it's surprising this didn't cause some much bigger blowback. | (First watched 2009-04-04) Pretty flagrant aggressive action on the part of the Federation here. Kirk and Spock use subterfuge to steal the cloaking device, but it's perfectly clear who did it. Considering how at odds the Federation and Romulans are, it's surprising this didn't cause some much bigger blowback. | ||
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303: '''The Paradise Syndrome''' | 303: '''The Paradise Syndrome''' | ||
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And featuring... white people as Native Americans! | And featuring... white people as Native Americans! | ||
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304: '''And the Children Shall Lead''' | 304: '''And the Children Shall Lead''' | ||
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(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?''' | 305: '''Is There in Truth No Beauty?''' | ||
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Standard Kirk move of the week: When called upon to create a distraction so big that it will distract Dr. Jones from telepathically noticing things... of course Kirk's solution is to try flirting. Which fails. | Standard Kirk move of the week: When called upon to create a distraction so big that it will distract Dr. Jones from telepathically noticing things... of course Kirk's solution is to try flirting. Which fails. | ||
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306: '''Spectre of the Gun''' | 306: '''Spectre of the Gun''' | ||
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I kind of like the way that using building fronts at a skewed angle was both a way to make the sets cheap and easy, and part of an incomplete alien recreation. | I kind of like the way that using building fronts at a skewed angle was both a way to make the sets cheap and easy, and part of an incomplete alien recreation. | ||
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307: '''Day of the Dove''' | 307: '''Day of the Dove''' | ||
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(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]]'' | 308: '''For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky''' ''[[1968]] [[November 8]]'' | ||
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Having no prior symptoms, discovering you've got a rare condition that gives you one year to live, immediately displaying symptoms, and finding/applying a cure all on the same day? Isn't that a bit fast, Bones? | Having no prior symptoms, discovering you've got a rare condition that gives you one year to live, immediately displaying symptoms, and finding/applying a cure all on the same day? Isn't that a bit fast, Bones? | ||
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309: '''The Tholian Web''' | 309: '''The Tholian Web''' | ||
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Kirk floating around through things was kind of goofy, but I guess really no more so than other instances of people being "out of phase" in Star Trek or other sci-fi. | Kirk floating around through things was kind of goofy, but I guess really no more so than other instances of people being "out of phase" in Star Trek or other sci-fi. | ||
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310: '''Plato's Stepchildren''' | 310: '''Plato's Stepchildren''' | ||
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In the end, they win by way of learning the secret of giving regular humans powerful telekinesis... never to be heard from in Star Trek again. | In the end, they win by way of learning the secret of giving regular humans powerful telekinesis... never to be heard from in Star Trek again. | ||
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311: '''Wink of an Eye''' | 311: '''Wink of an Eye''' | ||
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Also the second episode in a row where some species of small population tries to force people to stay behind for their own benefit. Really, beyond the kidnapping thing neither of these worlds were so bad--surely if they'd just sent out the space equivalent of Want Ads people would gladly answer. "Wanted: Doctor to infrequently help a small colony in usually good health." "Wanted: Anyone biologically compatible and willing to mate at high speed." | Also the second episode in a row where some species of small population tries to force people to stay behind for their own benefit. Really, beyond the kidnapping thing neither of these worlds were so bad--surely if they'd just sent out the space equivalent of Want Ads people would gladly answer. "Wanted: Doctor to infrequently help a small colony in usually good health." "Wanted: Anyone biologically compatible and willing to mate at high speed." | ||
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312: '''The Empath''' | 312: '''The Empath''' | ||
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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. | 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. | 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. I also really like the "Gem music" they use while she's silently emoting, though the fact that they keep reusing it for other women throughout the season cheapens it a bit. | ||
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313: '''Elaan of Troyius''' | 313: '''Elaan of Troyius''' | ||
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(First watched 2009-04-27) Again this universe does not seem to match the one that really solidified in the later years. So this is a solar system that's in... disputed Federation territory, which the Klingons also claim? With two planets that aren't really in the Federation and have much lower levels of technology? And the Enterprise is made to act essentially as a carriage for a marriage that's supposed to create peace between two clashing worlds in the system? | (First watched 2009-04-27) Again this universe does not seem to match the one that really solidified in the later years. So this is a solar system that's in... disputed Federation territory, which the Klingons also claim? With two planets that aren't really in the Federation and have much lower levels of technology? And the Enterprise is made to act essentially as a carriage for a marriage that's supposed to create peace between two clashing worlds in the system? | ||
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314: '''Whom Gods Destroy''' | 314: '''Whom Gods Destroy''' | ||
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It's nice to see that at least ''crazy'' Andorians and Tellarites can get along. | It's nice to see that at least ''crazy'' Andorians and Tellarites can get along. | ||
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315: '''Let That Be Your Last Battlefield''' | 315: '''Let That Be Your Last Battlefield''' | ||
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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. | 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: '''The Mark of Gideon''' | 316: '''The Mark of Gideon''' | ||
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So there didn't seem to be anything preventing Spock from communicating with the real Enterprise once he'd beamed down. Did Kirk not take his communicator down? Or did he just never try to use it since he had access to the wall/panel communicators built into the "ship"? | So there didn't seem to be anything preventing Spock from communicating with the real Enterprise once he'd beamed down. Did Kirk not take his communicator down? Or did he just never try to use it since he had access to the wall/panel communicators built into the "ship"? | ||
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317: '''That Which Survives''' | 317: '''That Which Survives''' | ||
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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. | 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: '''The Lights of Zetar''' | 318: '''The Lights of Zetar''' | ||
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Co-written by [[Shari Lewis]]? | Co-written by [[Shari Lewis]]? | ||
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319: ''' | 319: '''Requiem for Methuselah''' | ||
-- | (First watched 2009-05-02) So Flint/Leonardo/Methuselah/whoeverelse still works with the distinctive styles and handwriting of his old personae... you would think after centuries his style would've evolved a bit. Or that historians would've noticed that Brahms and da Vinci had the same handwriting. | ||
And Kirk is supposed to be believable at falling madly in love with an android woman who was completely emotionless for the majority of their several-hour acquaintance? If anything that just makes Kirk/Spock fanfics seem more plausible. | |||
Kirk's claims to Flint that Earth people had become very peaceful and the Enterprise's weapons were all for defensive purposes... yeah, that probably would've been more convincing if a few minutes earlier he hadn't been threatening Flint with destruction by the ship's phasers to force his cooperation. | |||
So at the end Spock seems to use a fancy Vulcan technique to make Kirk "forget". While that seems a highly morally questionable thing to do, it is interesting in how it mirrors the important "Remember" bit from [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II]] and [[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock|III]]. | |||
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320: '''The Way to Eden''' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-02) Ahh, the "space hippies" episode. Yeah, this was as annoying as I've heard. | |||
While it makes sense that information on how to run the ship should be found in the computer... it doesn't make sense that with just such information, people who previously had no starship experience should be able to wrest control from the bridge to auxiliary control. | |||
Irina's accent was pretty awful. It seemed it was supposed to be awful fake Russian, but it often sounded more like awful fake Swedish. | |||
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321: '''The Cloud Minders''' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-03) Another case of this not being the way things should work with the 24th century Trek I initially got into. This planet is a member of the Federation, even though they clearly practice segregation and an upper caste rules over a lower one? AND there's a death penalty in place for a starship captain mucking about too much with a member world's government? | |||
It is an interesting twist that while we at first think the prejudice on both sides is completely bunk, it turns out that there ''is'' something different about the people on the ground thanks to the effects of a gas. Not a permanent effect, but it appears to be so since most people either spend all their time on the ground or off the ground. | |||
Kirk's attempt to prove this gas theory to the doubters worked... but it doesn't seem to me like it should've. The one who showed the most obvious change with the gas's effects was Kirk himself, and of course he had the most to gain by making the gas theory appear true. If I was one of the others, I'd think he was just acting--like Shatner was. | |||
Interesting to see the scantily clad lady of the week fall for Spock for a change. | |||
What was up with the baby bonnets the Stratos guards wore? | |||
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322: '''The Savage Curtain''' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-04) Surak! Smooth-headed Kahless! Abraham Lincoln? | |||
Surak was smart to wonder if it was a test to see if "good" would attack at all. After all, something very similar had happened earlier this season in Specter of the Gun. However, that was not the case. Instead, the aliens' test was... very stupid. They wanted to know the differences between good vs evil, but making it a strict forced fight to the death kinda takes away a lot of the possible different approaches each side would take to a situation. | |||
Interesting that not much changed by the end of the episode. Usually Kirk would launch his diatribe at the aliens and they'd learn their lesson and change their ways. Instead, this time nobody changed their minds; each side just survived and then went on their way. | |||
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323: '''All Our Yesterdays''' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-05) Interesting idea, though sending people on a doomed planet back to the past on a planetary scale seems... problematic. If they were just ''adding'' to the population it would create an impossible loop of more and more people, or changing population growth in such a way to cause people to no longer exist. So it must be a predestination thing, where everybody is Fry on a grand scale? The population is descended from itself? | |||
It's also a bit goofy that going back in time causes Spock to become emotional because somehow his brain has changed to the normal philosophy of Vulcans of that era? However, in a "goofy-ass Star Trek science" way it's not unexpected. Like how Deanna Troi can revert into a Betazoid spider. | |||
Surely having thousands of walk-through walls that lead to a library at the end of the world scattered throughout history would be the cause of some weird accidents and disappearances? | |||
Kirk claimed to be from an island called Earth. Was this an obvious reference to the sci-fi movie [[This Island Earth]]? | |||
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324: '''Turnabout Intruder''' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-06) Ahh, a body switcher. Funny that Captain Kirk isn't Captain Kirk for most of the last episode. Though the change in persona could've been handled a bit better by the actors. Shatner definitely did things that he wouldn't normally have as Kirk, but Lester-as-Kirk still spoke with his style, and Kirk-as-Lester didn't. | |||
I thought this was a pretty good episode for the less important characters (except Uhura who wasn't there), though that role wasn't huge. But not only Spock and McCoy notice something is wrong with the captain, but eventually Scott, Sulu, and Chekov have to decide that whether or not there's really been a mind transfer, the captain is doing things they won't condone and choose to defy orders. | |||
Lester was obviously crazy... but did I hear right that part of the reason she was so bitter was because women can't become starship captains? Obviously this is something they didn't hold to in future Star Trek history (NX-02's captain in [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]] was female)), but it's interesting that with the show being fairly progressive that's evidently something they didn't see happening in the next several hundred years. | |||
I also like that the title of the episode sounds like a case from an [[Ace Attorney]] game. | |||
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