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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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323: '''All Our Yesterdays''' | 323: '''All Our Yesterdays''' | ||
(First watched 2009-05- | (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. | 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. | ||
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324: ''' ''' | 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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