spoilers, obv. why does everyone love the corbomite maneuver more? the premise of Where No Man Has Gone Before is way better than, "run into hostile rubik's cube in space, talk to hostile owner of rubik's cube, get towed by hostile alien, break free from the tow, go back and try to help hostile alien, OH he wasn't hostile at all - he was "just testing them." what?
who threatens to kill an entire ship's worth of ppl and then feigns weakness, NOT expecting to be killed on the spot? silly. "oh that poor thing, his life support's run out! we'd better help him!" the dramatic music whenever the cube showed up was hilarious though and the dialogue between kirk and mccoy was some of the greatest. "you could see the alarm lights flashing from there, mccoy. why didn't you tell me?" "finally finished a physical on you, didn't I? what am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor? if I jumped every time a light came on around here, I'd end up talking to myself..." <- mostly to himself, lol, perfect.
but not on par with WNMHGB. pretty much everything said leading up to the battle at kirk's grave (pray to me... pray you die easily! do you like what you see, absolute power corrupting absolutely?). the talks between gary and dehner (my love has wings, slender feathered things...). the decision making convos that are basically kirk's duty vs his friendship. that echoing voice itself... however, spock's claim that kirk won b/c he played "illogically" is ridiculous, why wouldn't you make a move that wins the game? it basically just makes spock look bullheaded, like he can't see when he's wrong or admit to mistakes.
the character that kirk shows by being patient with gary though, the sacrificial last words b4 he leaves to try to kill gary - "if I'm not back in 12 hours, get as far away from here as you can at max warp, this entire planet to be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation." and then after it was over and he added gary's death to the ship's logs, he had it noted that gary died in performance of his duty b/c "he didn't ask for what happened to him." way stronger character development than in corbomite maneuver. kind of pointless to have just flown through the weird energy field that caused the problem in the first place, but w/e, still better plot. better dialogue. no mccoy, but still better.
WNMHGB > the cage > corbomite maneuver > mudd's women. as far as the first 4 eps anyway. mudd's women has good dialogue too though, plenty of funny moments, decent themes, and great social commentary. there's even a moral to it. not bad at all. my whole original point with this though is that CM is overrated as hell. not among S1's best. the "bluff" was obviously desperate and awful, and apparently not even necessary. it's like the writers were going one way with it but then didn't know how to proceed so they just veered off course to balok. all of the suspense is invalidated which causes repeat viewings to suffer, as the suspense was such a huge part....
who threatens to kill an entire ship's worth of ppl and then feigns weakness, NOT expecting to be killed on the spot? silly. "oh that poor thing, his life support's run out! we'd better help him!" the dramatic music whenever the cube showed up was hilarious though and the dialogue between kirk and mccoy was some of the greatest. "you could see the alarm lights flashing from there, mccoy. why didn't you tell me?" "finally finished a physical on you, didn't I? what am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor? if I jumped every time a light came on around here, I'd end up talking to myself..." <- mostly to himself, lol, perfect.
but not on par with WNMHGB. pretty much everything said leading up to the battle at kirk's grave (pray to me... pray you die easily! do you like what you see, absolute power corrupting absolutely?). the talks between gary and dehner (my love has wings, slender feathered things...). the decision making convos that are basically kirk's duty vs his friendship. that echoing voice itself... however, spock's claim that kirk won b/c he played "illogically" is ridiculous, why wouldn't you make a move that wins the game? it basically just makes spock look bullheaded, like he can't see when he's wrong or admit to mistakes.
the character that kirk shows by being patient with gary though, the sacrificial last words b4 he leaves to try to kill gary - "if I'm not back in 12 hours, get as far away from here as you can at max warp, this entire planet to be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation." and then after it was over and he added gary's death to the ship's logs, he had it noted that gary died in performance of his duty b/c "he didn't ask for what happened to him." way stronger character development than in corbomite maneuver. kind of pointless to have just flown through the weird energy field that caused the problem in the first place, but w/e, still better plot. better dialogue. no mccoy, but still better.
WNMHGB > the cage > corbomite maneuver > mudd's women. as far as the first 4 eps anyway. mudd's women has good dialogue too though, plenty of funny moments, decent themes, and great social commentary. there's even a moral to it. not bad at all. my whole original point with this though is that CM is overrated as hell. not among S1's best. the "bluff" was obviously desperate and awful, and apparently not even necessary. it's like the writers were going one way with it but then didn't know how to proceed so they just veered off course to balok. all of the suspense is invalidated which causes repeat viewings to suffer, as the suspense was such a huge part....
