Or anything else, for that matter. Kind of hard to do when you're thoroughly lobotomized.
Favorite 'Little' Moments...
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You know in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson's character was actually lobotomized, all he could do is stare fixedly in front of him, practically a zombie.
I guess it depends on the person and method.
Yes, I think the message they are trying to convey, with an EIGHTEEN WHEELER is (hold on to your hat!) that she doesn't love her work.
I am surprised that we didn't see Kirk take the other woman (I forget her name) apart to whisper in her ear: "You know I think she doesn't love her work."
Huh? I thought Lethe was sincere, but dead inside. She didn't dislike her work. There was nothing she'd rather be doing. The point was to portray a lack of affect due to the damage Adams had done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_affect_display
We don't know that. She could just have been on automatic pilot.
Like when someone says: "Everything is Aok!" whether they think it or not.
I've lost count of how many times I answered "I am fine." to "how are you?" when I wasn't fine at all!
I agree with that. I always had the sense that Adams had sort of hollowed her out. Same as the orderly to whom Kirk says, "Thank you." (Which incidentally is one of my favorite little moments involving Kirk in the whole series.)
I'd say programmed robots. The androids on Mudd's planet were similar.
Without the wah-wah music cue (yes, funny, I'll grant that) she seems fairly legit. Her inflection could certainly be zombier imho.
My trouble is that man's voice is so distinctive, I keep hearing his Barney Miller detective. Can't remember the character's name for the lethe of me.
My trouble is that man's voice is so distinctive, I keep hearing his Barney Miller detective. Can't remember the character's name for the lethe of me.
I remember having that as a kid, it sucked. Marshmellows would not come out of it.
The walkie talkie communicators were decent though, and IIRC worked with the 80s fisher price walkie talkies.
Those were some badly thought out robots! Like why would a robot get an air of panic on his face when he's about to fry? I mean Norman getting all panicky is just bad acting/directing. It's supposed to be a ROBOT!!!
Inspector Luger.
(BANG!)
No they weren't robots! They were androids! Even if they called themselves robots, they were meant to mimic humans, including behavior.
Except not. They were supposed to be unemotional, to which they succeded almost all time except in that ridiculous scene.
I think his name was Eli! The actor was Eli Behar but I'm sure Dr.Adams calls him Eli as well! I loved the way Kirk thanked him and just stayed there for a response but didn't get any! Plus Ed McCready gets some of his own time with the deadly Neural Neutralizer!
JB
I think his name was Eli! The actor was Eli Behar but I'm sure Dr.Adams calls him Eli as well! I loved the way Kirk thanked him and just stayed there for a response but didn't get any! Plus Ed McCready gets some of his own time with the deadly Neural Neutralizer!
JB
Good call, JB! I just checked the transcript and he does call him Eli.
And what a read, that transcript. Superb teleplay in that episode!
It is a superb teleplay. Writer Shimon Wincelberg (a/k/a S. Bar-David) had an excellent reputation in the '60s. He also scripted the premiere episode of LOST IN SPACE. Regardless of how you feel about that series, that first episode is filled with wonderful dialogue. Wish he'd written more STAR TREK. (He also co-wrote "The Galileo Seven").
You are a good sport, 
My favorite part of that scene is as the tribble avalanche slows with the tribbles trickling out in ones and twos, one comes out and boinks Kirk right on top of his head. DS9 played off that in their tribble episodes when Sisko and Dax are in the cargo compartment searching for the bombed-up tribble, Dax idly tosses one over her should which falls through the door ... right onto Kirk's head.
Speaking of boinks on the head, in RETURN OF THE ARCHONS, Science-Guy-Of-The-Week Lindstrom gets the ol' Two-Fer. When the Red Hour strikes and the landing team is caught up in the melee, he takes a shot to the head by a club during the struggle to protect Tula. Then, as the team flees the scene, they run down the sidewalk and just as they veer onto the street, he takes a brick right off the top of his noggin ... a brick that bounces like a superball.
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