Posted on 02/27/2015 7:09:37 PM PST by Kartographer
i don't know the name of the episode but the one i remember is the one with Pike as the Captain... so there are two of them?
I’m pretty sure that Eddie Murphy had a similar joke in one of his early HBO comedy specials.
I just realized it is “This Side of Paradise” instead of the other side.
This is the one where the colonists are all presumed dead because of deadly bertol rays or is it vertol rays? Anyway they are all healthy and basically living in paradise with no worries but the are accomplishing nothing.
All the crew eventually also fall prey to the spores which both protect them and also act sort of like an opiate, making them happy but not productive.
Spock finds a girl friend and is happy with her.
I think there are two such episodes. In the original pilot, Spock’s stoicism hadn’t really been established. BTW, the two-part episode which used footage from the pilot in flashback scenes, “The Menagerie”, is truly an excellent piece of work. If I could only choose one episode to watch, I think that would be the one I’d select. It didn’t have any space battles or green Orion women, but it represents the entire series in a single story.
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Spock tells T’PAU, when she says “Live Long and Prosper”, that he will do neither, having killed his Captain and his friend. Evidently the death penalty is still around...
Then Spock’s reaction to Kirk being alive, after all, is one of the best moments of the series. :-)
Spock has a BUG smile when he discovers Kirk is alive @ the end of “Amok Time”!
so post#25 came from there the Cage?
Haha “BIG”!
I've seen copies of The Cage that are entirely in color, but I'm not sure if that was done by finding a color copy of the original or by colorizing the black & white parts. The original pilot intro has more of a 1950s television look to it, too.
I always liked the original series. It had fistfights, aliens chucking spears, fetching 60s babes, screaming color schemes, and just a kind of overall element of no-nonsense vibrancy (even if it did get somewhat ridiculous at times) that I never really got from the later Trek series. I really just couldn’t get into the later shows. They seemed so blah to me, and I don’t think I ever warmed up to any of the characters.
Saw a number of the cast members over the years, starting with James Doohan at a comic convention in 1979, when the movie was about to be released. Met Leonard Nimoy briefly once, several years later, at the Paramount commisary, when I was there with a friend. He was quite nice, and I left with a pleasant impression of him. Never knew entirely what to make of Nimoy, though. He had a sort of artsy-fartsy side, steeped from that hip, pretentious 1960s Hollywood acting/artist milieu. But he also spent many, many years toiling and struggling in his field before he really found fame and recognition, and it seemed to have left him a little more appreciative and a little more down-to-earth than many in his position. It’s not a combo you usually find together... artsy-fartsy on one hand, friendly and down-to-earth on the other. But that’s how Nimoy always struck me.
Anyway, I do have the 1st and 2nd seasons of “Trek” on dvd, and I think I’ll get them out tomorrow and have a little marathon viewing session, in honor and appreciation of Nimoy. Actually, I’ve been spotting him a lot of late, in some of his earlier tv appearances, like as a boxer in a “West Point Story” episode from the mid-1950s, and as an Indian in a “Tombstone Territory” episode from the late-1950s. And also, in a good role in a 1966 “Gunsmoke” episode, where he played yet another Indian, getting clever revenge on the baddies that killed his trapper buddy. Might have been the last guest-shot he did before “Star Trek” debuted that fall.
Star Trek had some great sci fi authors write their episodes. Harlan Ellison wrote “City on the Edge of Forever” and Norman Spinrad wrote “The Doomsday Machine,” although he didn’t care for how it was edited, it was still the best action episode.
Star Trek episodes were like Moody Blues songs. The good ones were really good. The bad ones were awful.
And I can still watch the first ten seconds of the teaser and tell you the title and plot of the episode. You see, when I was 15 and they were showing the reruns, I had no life.
Would it be wrong to mix episodes and have a glass of Tranya with it? I hope you relish it as much as I...
Wash it down with some Saurian Brandy.
By the way, although it’s often mentioned about Nimoy having a minor role in one of the later-era Republic serials, “Zombies of the Stratosphere” (1952), Nimoy was also featured (as a villainous Indian) in one of the very last true B-westerns... a Rex Allen flick from 1953.
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