to bring out nostalgia--Posted on 04/02/2017 11:23:28 AM PDT by Bender2
50 Years of "Star Trek" The original Series - My Sweet 16
Nothing like a lingering Sunday martini brunch... to bring out nostalgia--
And this Sunday my mind goes back 50 years... 
to watching the oiginal "Star Trek"
And here are my Sweet 16... 
Best Episodes:
Maybe it was just my adolescent hormones, but I though she smoked. Definitely in the hottest babe in the history of Star Trek conversation.
My favorite was “The Empath.”
It was also used in one of the episodes of "Big Bang Theory" when Sheldon was trying to force Leonard into signing a new roommate agreement in "The Roommate Dissection":
"The following morning, Sheldon has written a new and improved version of the Roommate Agreement and wants Leonard to sign it, but he refuses. Sheldon, foreseeing this comment, activates a self-destruct sequence on his laptop, akin to how Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" activated the self-destruct sequence and threatened to blow up the Enterprise to kill both himself and an alien nemesis, unless he gave in to his demands. The self-destruct sequence will send an email to Mr. and Mrs. Koothrappali informing them about Priya's secret relationship with a white boy. Leonard signs the paper after Priya threatens to end their relationship if he doesn't. Sheldon exclaims to Priya that she may have gone to Cambridge, but he is an honorary graduate of fictional Starfleet Academy."
If your idea of 'Star Trek' and sci-fi is a solid hour with a mime, 'The Empath' is your episode...
Yea, but there was something about her that kept drawing my attention.
Sherry Jackson's costume epitomizes the "Theiss Titillation Theory" - "The degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly dependent upon how accident-prone it appears to be?" Gene Roddenberry was very lucky in having costume designer William Ware "Bill" Theiss, a genuine genius at spectacular but cheap and quick costumes.
Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman Colt.
A more recent pic of her on the ST convention circuit.
I always liked The Enemy Within where Kirk’s personality gets split into the components of good and evil when the transporter malfunctions. A bit more thought provoking than some of the episodes with the concept that evil does have a useful function.
She stole my Heart in that role ...
Seems the writers always
had harmless innuendos.
Thanks!
Angelique teared up in closing the show.
Nice touch.
She was in Burlesque!
...on a list of the worst Star Trek episodes.
Loved those episodes with him as Mudd, and especially that one. The personification of a "lovable fraud".
When my brother's wife started to nag him (often) he would raise his arm, point at her and just say "Harcourt" in that grating voice. It got to be an inside family joke in that any time we ran across a harpy, we'd just look at one another and in a high-pitched voice, say "Harcourt!".
I still prefer the original series above all the others, where every alien was usually just a humanoid in makeup.
The actress who really turned me on was Yvonne Craig in "Whom the Gods Destroy" - she looked like she would hurt me - and I wouldn't care - cold showers all week: 
and
Marta
Good list, Bendy!
I’d add “Balance of Terror”, which is my favorite episode.
I’d also add “Charlie X” because it always made me cry when I was a kid — I always felt bad for Charlie, even though it also contained an image that scared the life out of me when I was young: That poor girl who got her face erased by Charlie. YIKES!
Also any episode in which Captain Kirk is wearing the green tunic with the rank insignia on his shoulders and/or his shirt gets ripped. (Well...if you can like green slave girls, I can like a handsome man in a cool uniform...LOL )
Regards,
PS: Oops! Almost forgot “Mirror, Mirror” and “The Doomsday Machine.”
I seem to remember an episode where the crew was on a planet fighting against drone like weapons that learned behavior and were autonomous and out of human control. Am I remembering correctly or was this some other show?
Balance of Terror was one of the best episodes.
Return of the Archons was good, as was Plato’s Stepchildren.
her outfit reminds me of Jiffy Pop Popcorn.
At one point, Joan Collins was married to Anthony Newley.
At one point, Joan Collins was married to Anthony Newley.
Shatner had great fun with that when he hosted Saturday Night Live, in a sketch set at a Star Trek convention.
Shatner had great fun with that when he hosted Saturday Night Live, in a sketch set at a Star Trek convention.
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