Posted on 05/23/2017 9:10:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
High Asian Cultures: China, deliberately smashing a satellite to smithereens, ruining orbital space. Japan: Fukushima.
Spock's Brain
"Danger and I are old companions" ... ep?
You forgot the episode when the castaways were attacked by giant talking vegetables: “The Great Vegetable Rebellion.” Spock was swallowed by a large carrot.
Not an episode and arguably the worst of all the TOS-based movies but worth existing just to have the Klingons claim Shakespeare as one of them.
And the bolted-on eye patch. Best bad-guy costume ever.
giant ice cream-cone planet eater
Shows you there’s no accounting for tastes. I found Darmok extremely frustrating, since it is based on an idea of language that makes no sense. If the aliens were capable of using METAPHORS, why could they not also use or understand simple declarative sentences? And how could a species without the capacity to use declarative sentences develop technology, let alone spacefaring technology?
Star Trek has alway Recycled earth groupes as New races in the show The klingons were the Russians the romulans were the Chinese
the Frengy was invented by some left wing writer to be Anti-capitalist ... and what show came up with was a Nazi propaganda show with the Frengy as the "Space Jews"
I was Shocked when I saw that episode the 1st time it was so thinly veiled what Old racist stereotype they were retrying to recreate with the Frengy
That was “Amok Time”.
>>I called TNG “star trek for women”.<<
Once they put the women in slacks at least. We didn’t get anything worth watching until 7 of 9’s painted on uniform.
>>>Shows you there’s no accounting for tastes. I found Darmok extremely frustrating, since it is based on an idea of language that makes no sense. If the aliens were capable of using METAPHORS, why could they not also use or understand simple declarative sentences? And how could a species without the capacity to use declarative sentences develop technology, let alone spacefaring technology?
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The episode Darmok on TV!
(arms open?)
Yes I am! Just from the Valley. LOL
I didn’t think it was saying the Yangs were superior. I thought it was saying their declaration of independence - their ultimate system - was superior.
TOS did more than one hint at religion. Remember the Sun worshipers in “Bread and Circuses”? In the end, on the bridge they were sort of mocking the Sun worshipers and Uhura said (IIRC), “I’ve been monitoring their transmissions. They don’t worship the sun. They worship the Son. The Son of God.”
There were a lot of moral and political messages in the show and it was very, VERY conservative by today’s standards. Sometimes they were heavy handed enough to ruin the episode.
The giant cornucopia of death was “The Doomsday Machine” .Started William Windom as Matt Decker.
I was at a client for a little over a year and put that one up on my cubicle on the last day.
Alternative Factor is the worst TOS. Sheer boredom
>>The giant cornucopia of death was “The Doomsday Machine” .Started William Windom as Matt Decker.<<
One of the eps that was RUINED by reworking. The original plant eater was a true ice cream cone of death and the head on view when Decker goes in scared the beejezus out of me.
The new cornucopia-looking rework is so pedestrian.
EBTs.
The Devil in the Dark, with the Horta.
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