Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2
SPOILERS AHOY
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301: Spock's Brain 1968 September 20
(First watched 2008-04-18) "His brain is gone!"
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
(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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304: The Paradise Syndrome
(First watched 2009-04-08) Hey, finally the "I am Kirok!" episode.
I guess this is as close as Kirk gets to a "The Inner Light" situation, living another life, though it doesn't last for decades as for Picard. So really in that regard it's more like a couple Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis episodes I can think of.
Busy episode for Kirk, though. Becomes a god, medicine man, husband, father-to-be, and widower within the span of one episode.
Was it really such a surprise to Salish that the god Kirok could bleed? I mean, he eats and breathes and behaves in all other ways like a regular person. Why not bleed? Even if he was a god, it would seem he'd taken complete human form in a biological sense.
Spock was talking about the logical choices and all, but he really seemed to blow it by blowing the engines. They had to waste 2 months crawling around. Perhaps with full power they could've used those two months to devise an alternate plan, or go get more help, rather than requiring last-minute use of a Preserver device.
Preservers are an interesting concept. An ancient race that moved life forms around from planet to planet to help things not die off. McCoy says it helps explain why there are so many humanoids around, but not really; it would only help explain why there are humans around on other worlds, or whatever other duplicates.
And featuring... white people as Native Americans!
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305: 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.
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306: 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 the first season of TNG when Geordi and his VISOR helmed the Enterprise-D.
I think maybe TOS and I have a language problem. Sometimes there's a concept that I think I can grasp, but they explain it in what seems an off way. For instance, I can buy that there's something weird about the Medusans that can cause many humanoids to go insane upon seeing them... but to just repeatedly call that "ugliness". Come oooon.
The end confused me a bit. Kirk seemed to be making accusations without certainty, and I wasn't happy with the lack of resolution. If she wasn't trying to kill Spock by influencing his mind, he was just being a big asshole. If she was, it doesn't seem a good idea to just happily send her on her way after she helps him recover.
The Spock/Kollos melding was pretty interesting. And gives Nimoy one of his few chances to use a very different demeanor with Spock.
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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307: Spectre of the Gun
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308: Day of the Dove
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309: 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?
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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310: The Tholian Web
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