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-: '''Requieum for Methuselah'''
+: '''Requiem for Methuselah'''
+(First watched 2009-05-02) &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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? &nbsp;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 &quot;forget&quot;. &nbsp;While that seems a highly morally questionable thing to do, it is interesting in how it mirrors the important &quot;Remember&quot; bit from [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II]] and [[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock|III]].
+I like the use of the Enterprise model sitting on a table to represent it having been shrunk.
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+: '''The Way to Eden'''
+(First watched 2009-05-02) &nbsp;Ahh, the &quot;space hippies&quot; episode. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;It seemed it was supposed to be awful fake Russian, but it often sounded more like awful fake Swedish.
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+: '''The Cloud Minders'''
+(First watched 2009-05-03) &nbsp;Another case of this not being the way things should work with the 24th century Trek I initially got into. &nbsp;This planet is a member of the Federation, even though they clearly practice segregation and an upper caste rules over a lower one? &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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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+: '''The Savage Curtain'''
+(First watched 2009-05-04) &nbsp;Surak! &nbsp;Smooth-headed Kahless! &nbsp;Abraham Lincoln?
+Surak was smart to wonder if it was a test to see if &quot;good&quot; would attack at all. &nbsp;After all, something very similar had happened earlier this season in Specter of the Gun. &nbsp;However, that was not the case. &nbsp;Instead, the aliens' test was... very stupid. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;Usually Kirk would launch his diatribe at the aliens and they'd learn their lesson and change their ways. &nbsp;Instead, this time nobody changed their minds; each side just survived and then went on their way.
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