^ That Trelane was a silly dude for sure! I like to call him Tra-La.
Yes he was kind of a jolly fellow. He reminded me of that old comedian dude, Rip Taylor.
I'm pretty sure that Trelane and Liberace were the same person.
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I'm pretty sure that Trelane and Liberace were the same person.
^ That Trelane was a silly dude for sure! I like to call him Tra-La.
I'm pretty sure that Trelane and Liberace were the same person.
Oh, the horror!
What's amusing to me in hindsight is that Frank Gorshin was famous as being over the top as the Riddler, there was precedent for hammy Star Trek villains, and yet in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield by comparison he practically underplays Bele in most of his scenes.
The man was just destined to wear spandex.
Unlike too many modern day comedians / impressionists who do not know when to turn of the routine, Gorshin was sensible, and understood just what the Bele role demanded-and it was not anything in the neighborhood of "Riddle me this, Dynamic Duo!!"
Gorshin's barely contained disrespect / racism was a standout performance in that season.
It was a way to add some drama once their budget had been slashed, and all the people who actually understood science fiction had left the show.
I think it would have worked better if some of the performances had been better. De Kelley was usually wonderful, but I thought he was pretty terrible in "For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky" -- he acted like he'd never SEEN a woman before and wasn't quite sure what to do with one. I've seen GAY actors kiss a woman more convincingly.
Kate Woodville held up her end well, managing to look smitten with a cranky doctor, but Kelley "in love" looked almost exactly like Kelley NOT in love. Maybe we need a thread for UNDERacting.
It was a way to add some drama once their budget had been slashed, and all the people who actually understood science fiction had left the show.
I think it would have worked better if some of the performances had been better. De Kelley was usually wonderful, but I thought he was pretty terrible in "For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky" -- he acted like he'd never SEEN a woman before and wasn't quite sure what to do with one. I've seen GAY actors kiss a woman more convincingly.
It's true, he seem more "into" the Yeoman in Shore Leave.
I always assumed it was the illness.
It was a way to add some drama once their budget had been slashed, and all the people who actually understood science fiction had left the show.
I think it would have worked better if some of the performances had been better. De Kelley was usually wonderful, but I thought he was pretty terrible in "For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky" -- he acted like he'd never SEEN a woman before and wasn't quite sure what to do with one. I've seen GAY actors kiss a woman more convincingly.
Yes, yes, yes. If I was an actor and got to smooch with Kate Woodville I sure would make the most of it.
Yes, yes, yes. If I was an actor and got to smooch with Kate Woodville I sure would make the most of it.
I imagine it's not actually that much fun with a camera five inches from your face, lots of hot lights pointed at you, and the director, cameraman, and tech crew judging your performance.
But I'm not an actor, so I don't know for sure.Certainly Shatner was reputed to be interested in kissing Nichelle Nichols in "Plato's Stepchildren," but then, Shatner is ... not quite like everyone else.
He only had to flirt with the Yeoman Barrows in "Shore Leave," and I wonder if Mr. Kelley was more comfortable with flirting than with acting as if he were in love. Or maybe Kate Woodville just had terrible breath or something.
Well, but McCoy told Kirk, "I'll be most effective on the job in the time I have left, if you'll keep this to yourself," which suggests that he's functioning at a fairly normal level. He gets up a bit more slowly when they're attacked, but he's mostly not dragging.
Perhaps when the third volume of These Are the Voyages comes out, it'll have some clues.
Wow! The 3rd Season Love Fest. Kirk falls in love (again). Scotty falls in love. McCoy falls in love. Chekov falls in love.
What's wrong with that? Remove characters never exploring that emotion, and you end up with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where everyone was either grim or acting surprised by alien #10,000 that managed to finds its way aboard the Seaview.
Because it went from Star Trek to Soap Trek. Who falls in love or out of love this week?
A couple of romance subplots did not transform TOS into Soap Trek. Characters have romantic feelings, and after two seasons where the majority of romance subplots focused on Kirk (aside from McCoy in "The Man Trap" & Spock in "This Side of Paradise"), the TOS crew would seem underdeveloped if the series--by the 3rd season--did not explore that side with other characters.
Again, I see a quasi military crew not involved in any romantic storylines turning into a "we're so tense" series such as the aforementioned Voyage--and that leaves the characters cold and unappealing.
My favorite overacting is definitely Shatner in "The Enemy Within"...his hammy tour de force. (Hamsterpiece...?)
"Hamsterpiece" is a great word.
I thought Shatner actually did a great job in that episode. You could always tell which Kirk you were dealing with, and given that most televisions were small in 1966, he probably had to act fairly broadly to get the point across on a small screen.
Funny, I always found the opposite. I loved him as Trelane but thought he was the worst Klingon ever. Looks like a Klingon who would get bullied a lot.
If the 4th season had come to fruition, TOS might have been the Love Boat in space.
I said Campbell was "good" as Koloth, not "fantastic". Compared to Trelane, Koloth was as least marginally menacing. His bodyguard Korax stole the show in 'Tribbles' for being a mean ass Klingon though. Kang in 'Day of the Dove' would have stomped both Trelane and Koloth in a flash.
GODDAMMIT! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that earworm of a theme song out of my head!?!If the 4th season had come to fruition, TOS might have been the Love Boat in space.
GODDAMMIT! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that earworm of a theme song out of my head!?!If the 4th season had come to fruition, TOS might have been the Love Boat in space.
"The Looooooooovvvvvvvve Boat!!!"
Oh, the horror! Oh, the humanity!
If the 4th season had come to fruition, TOS might have been the Love Boat in space.
Then you should have considered seasons 1 & 2 The Love Boat, since Kirk had a number of romances, along with the aforementioned Spock & McCoy love interests.
If the 4th season had come to fruition, TOS might have been the Love Boat in space.
Then you should have considered seasons 1 & 2 The Love Boat, since Kirk had a number of romances, along with the aforementioned Spock & McCoy love interests.
How about Gavin MacLeod as Trelane?
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