The Galileo Seven
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I think the part about doing the burial "even if it was Spock's body" was over the line for McCoy. They needed a throw away actor for that.
They could have had Boma as more of a second banana to McCoy in criticizing Spock, but getting a bit more extreme in what he vocalized. I'm sure some tweaking would have been in order. Honestly, it's been a while since I've watched it...but my impression was always that McCoy was sort of being upstaged by the guest character.
LOL, you crack me up!!! (I hope you are kidding)
Yeah, it does.
The Mattel toy version is better? Nah
Well, for me I like the miniature built by Hollywood professionals that make the hangar by look huge and somehow miraculously filmed it on a television budget instead of a poorly rendered cartoon looking CGI that does not fit or blend with the live action. For me the "remastered" effects majorly detract from the experience; but hey, that's just me. To each his own.
The one on the right looks like Kirk forgot to pay the electric bill that month.
Left picture: Gorgeous!The Mattel toy version is better? Nah
Right picture: Crap! (as nicely as I can put it.)
One thing about comparing Bones and Boma, Bones really can't be "insubordinate" specifically because he really isn't in the chain of command and they are the same rank. I realize there can be to people of the same rank and one be clearly "in charge" that the other has to obey but that's not really this situation. Boma is clearly a lower rank and should obey. Also, Boma says things that Bones never would. Bones never got near that level of difficult with Spock, possible exception being how he was during Tholian Web, but he even says he thinks that his mind is being affected.
Plus, there's a completely different dimension of two coworkers that are really good friends, even if they wouldn't like to admit it, than a coworker that's in the same company but you don't know personally getting up in your face about not liking stuff. I'm so tired of Bones's silly ribs with Spock being suddenly "racist", should be speciest, because he calls him a green blooded hobgoblin. That's their thing. No one else would or should do that, and no one ever does with minor exception by Kirk (TSoP) and Scott (DotD), both in particular circumstances that are out of the normal.
I think Boma went to far with his defiance, and I like the little non official addendum that Scotty had Boma up on charges for insubordination. But it's better that it's not in the episode. Because,
one more thing about this episode and Star Trek in general, they seemed to break another trope with this situation, the complainy person gets killed (or punished) to show the others were right. In a lot of other shows Boma would have gotten kacked just to show us how bad speaking out against authority is. I'm happy they avoided that cliché.
One thing I didn't like about the episode was the ending. Even though people died, Kirk and the rest of the bridge crew got all giggly making fun of Spock's "emotional reaction" when he ignited the fuel. It just seemed out of place to laugh about a mission where people died.
^I agree, that was one of the most egregious of the Forced Happy Endings in the whole series. I even hate when Uhura says 5 people rescued when they sent 7 and Kirk is just OK as anything. Yeah getting most of them back is great but it's like he knows the 2 are nobody in particular, like the 2 couldn't have been Spock, Bones, or Scott. Also, Uhura reams Spock out for the same exact thing in The Man Trap.
Don't watch the end of "The Changeling" any time soon. Nomad destroys four billion inhabitants in the Malurian system and Kirk makes a joke about "My son, the doctor" at the end.
^^ This. The physical miniature shot makes the hangar bay look like a vast space. The CGI stuff makes the area look cramped and dark, and besides that, it looks like game animation.
And four of Kirk's own security guards got killed in "The Changeling" as well.
It's similar to "The Apple", with a jokey ending after four guards were killed. Kirk should be getting ready to write letters to their families. Five guards get killed in "Obsession," and Kirk had to destroy all life on an entire planet, but he's fairly upbeat at the end.
The happy endings seem a little off when taken in context.
No no, can't you grok that if a computer did it ergo it's automagically better?!
I'll defend Kirk somewhat for the end of Galileo 7. If you thought seven friends of yours had died, and then found out that five survived, you would be somewhat relieved.
Although even as I say that, I thought it was hypocritical of Kirk in SfS to be all "this time we've paid for the party with our dearest blood" like Spock's life is worth more than everyone else's he's ever lost.
Actually, it just struck me that Changeling was SO grim that (after perhaps more time passed that we weren't there for) Kirk may have perversely felt a need to joke about it-- as people sometimes do. He was under particular pressure with Nomad. I can see Kirk coming out with some pretty black humor, when we're not watching...
Rather than have Kirk be deadly serious at the end of these episodes, the other thing they could have done, story-wise, was to not kill people. That might have worked without costing the show too much of its dramatic power.
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