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Fix an episode---Miri

Grant

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Fix an episode-------------------Miri….can’t do it.

Alternative Factor---------------I got nothing

Lights of Zetar------------------rather eat spinach

I, Mudd---------------------------I’ll get back to you in a hundred years, onlie I won’t

Plato’s Stepchildren------------heal Parmen and leave with Alexander---quarantine the planet--the end.

Mark of Gideon-----------------It was a stupid dream, that is all.

And the Children Shall Lead----I am 55 years old and doubt I will live long enough to finish such a project

Spock’s Brain-------------------Possible, but would it be worth it?

Omega Glory-------------------add in that long cut portion with Kirk and Tracey from the first act Sir Rhosis posted a while back and cut Kirk’s cringe-worthy jingoistic speech and it actually ain’t bad.

Mudd’s Women----------------I can only think of one thing and it involves Uhura, Chapel, Rand and the 3 women……..wait it was 1966, so no, never mind…..

Seriously though, there are a number of mediocre episodes (IMO) that probably could be made better but I find them so bland that I really can’t work enough interest to think about it…………

Court-Martial---it is what it is.

Operation: Anillate---heck I’m too ambivalent to check the spelling.

Catspaw-----can it be made scary? I wish it was.

Wolf in the Fold----love the first half can’t think of how to make the ending better

Apple---------------pointless to me and a waste of time. Computers are bad--is that it?

Deadly Years------gimmick

Return to Tomorrow---Nimoy gets to emote--glad for him.

Patterns of----------Is there some kind of law in Hollywood?

Let That be………polemic

Whom Gods Destroy---been there done that.

Really! right down to torture machine & how do you get a bad performance from Steve Ihnat? ---ask the director--- who apparently said to him, “just follow Shatner’s lead on how a crazy person acts!”--either that or “randomly shout your lines“, “REMOVE THIS ANIMAAAAAL!!!” Bravo!-Bravo! For your consideration….

But really you have a code to let
the ship know to beam you up right? How about a code that lets you know UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE BEAM ANYONE UP

So Garth berates, bullies, intimidates Kirk and Spock for a while and then Kirk “breaks” and gives up the code. Garth repeats the code to Scotty who then knows Kirk is captured/under duress and stalls Garth--”the transporter is malfunctioning again, captain.”

Then Scotty can get to work on trying to come up with a rescue plan. They already had such codes as in Bread and Circuses and Day of the Dove--and they worked.

And Spock can’t tell Kirk from Garth? Jebus--just have Kirk START the scene by saying the obvious, “Stun us both, Garth will revert!”

But that would have the result of us missing the awesome Shatner vs. his body double make out session--I mean fight.

HO F--ING HUM--I saw that shite in Enemy Within--I WANNA LIVE!!---perhaps, but the audience wants to die.

And speaking of Ho-hum…Immunity Syndrome….I don’t know if it’s just me but I’d rather be hit on the head with a Styrofoam stalagtite in the shape of a phallus.

This weeks special guest star….
NO ONE AT ALL

And featuring…
JAY JONES as CREWMAN WHO FEELS FAINT BUT WILL BE OKAY in an uncredited role
Can you say “money-saving bottle show“ ?-------I knew that you could

“you botched the acetylcholine test!”---shut the f up, Bones

And Spock falling out the shuttle cockpit seat….just watch that and not be a little sick.
Worst crewperson ship shake/fall EVER! Uhura’s 450 degree twirl/pirouette with arms at full extension above her head has been dethroned.

For god’s sake Nimoy, have a little pride and ask the director for a second take--there is no way you could have done worse even if you tried.

Sleepy and ranting. Time to quit.
 
uh...ok. maybe you should have just made one 'fix an episode' thread instead of half a dozen.
 
As for fixing "Miri", I like what Christopher's "Department of Temporal Investigations" novels have done with her world:

It's not just a duplicate of Earth, it IS Earth. From an alternate timeline. Makes a lot more sense, doesn't it?
 
As for fixing "Miri", I like what Christopher's "Department of Temporal Investigations" novels have done with her world:

It's not just a duplicate of Earth, it IS Earth. From an alternate timeline. Makes a lot more sense, doesn't it?

I could not resist tapping open the spoiler! That is a great solution to the questions about Miri's World. I really have got to get myself in gear and read Christopher's DTI novels! n discussions here, they always sound like intriguing, excellent stories!
 
They should simply have not made the planet a duplicate of Earth. It's just left hanging there and never addressed.
 
Well, to be fair, I think it was the first episode to use backlot city street sets to suggest it was a planet similar to Earth, so the concept was still being tested. I think it was the first episode I saw in its entirety in 1966, and I was a bit disappointed it didn't take place on the spaceship which I had barely seen.
 
They should simply have not made the planet a duplicate of Earth. It's just left hanging there and never addressed.

You of all people should know the reason they did that: It's easier on the budget. Earth duplicates showed up ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME. on TOS. The easy use of the existing studio backlot and costumes are a ready-made reason for this. Isn't it obvious?
 
Kim Darby wasn't too bad, but the other kids in that ep were so annoying, they should have all been sent to military school or something. Besides, wasn't Michael Pollard like 30 years old when they made that ep?
 
Pollard was 27. That was another problem I had with it. To me, at 15, he didn't look like a teenager. But I did like seeing John Megna
(BONK BONK), who had been the neighbor boy in To Kill a Mockingbird.

I think Kim Darby was 18 or 19 at the time.
 
I remember really enjoying Miri, but when I saw it recently, I was really getting annoyed by the "Nah, nah, nee, nah, nah" and the "bonk, bonk" spoiled brat thing.

I was especially self-conscious because my wife came into the room FINALLY semi-curious about Star Trek. And she walks in during the "nah, nah, nee, nah, nah" stuff and she's like, "Oh...my...God, why do you love this show?"

And i was like, "NO, please NO! You're watching it out of context!" blah, blah, blah.

But my wife wasn't buying it.

So bottom line, I like Miri, but I would've toned down the bratty shit.
 
They should simply have not made the planet a duplicate of Earth. It's just left hanging there and never addressed.

You of all people should know the reason they did that: It's easier on the budget. Earth duplicates showed up ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME. on TOS. The easy use of the existing studio backlot and costumes are a ready-made reason for this. Isn't it obvious?
I know WHY, but they had already done other planets so it was disappointing to see a freakin' globe of the Earth used. They could have still said it was very much like Earth in composition and land-to-water ratio without making it an exact duplicate.
 
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Miri is great - it doesn't need "fixing."

They never did explain why her planet was a exact copy of earth, unless I missed something.

It's not important. It was cool.

When the three people in the world who any of the three of us knew were watching Star Trek sat down to watch it every Thursday night one of the things we hoped for were those "holy fuck that's weird!" moments. Twilight Zone had delivered; so had The Outer Limits. Not much else did until Star Trek, and the real awesomely weird or creepy moments were scarce on the show (and became more so as the seasons passed). "Miri" delivered.

I guess I'm kinda not surprised it doesn't pass muster with younger folk.
 
Sleepy and ranting. Time to quit.

Good call.

The idea to do these was good (although all things in moderation - a thread or two a day would have sufficed). This thread reads as a passive-aggressive whine and God above, I have no patience with that shit.

But I've just read through your threads and you got real defensive over what other people suggested if it was different than what you wanted.

It's just a TV show and people will have different ideas on what worked/will work. Go with it. Or don't start the threads because people will have their own opinions.

That's not a bad thing, unless you (or they) make it bad.

Advice from the old lady.
 
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