I'm looking forward to it!
Watching Star Trek for the first time (again)
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I'm looking forward to it!
Of particular note in the first season, Takei is a guest agent in one episode.
M:I S1 is a full season of early installment weirdness, though, between having a different lead actor from the rest of the series and the show taking so long to fall into its distinctive formula of the IMF pulling elaborate con schemes on the bad guys. A lot of S1 stories are more generic spy fi fare.
M:I S1 is a full season of early installment weirdness, though, between having a different lead actor from the rest of the series and the show taking so long to fall into its distinctive formula of the IMF pulling elaborate con schemes on the bad guys. A lot of S1 stories are more generic spy fi fare.
It's all new to us. We're excited. We miss Danger Man, though...
Lorelei is really keen to watch The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (Noel Harrison impressed us on Hollywood Palace last year) and she really dug the first episode of the Monkees.
One thing M:I has right out of the gate is the second-coolest opening theme ever, behind only Hawaii FIve-O.
I've never seen TGFU. Didn't like TMFU very much, though.
I've never seen TGFU. Didn't like TMFU very much, though.
I've watched several TOS episodes over the years, but nowhere near the whole series and am planing on rectifying that now.
You are more than welcome to join us! It's quite the experience. Send me a message for details.
Today, we watched The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Sadly, the already campy MUNCLE has been influenced by Batman and is truly goofy. But it did feature Abraham Sofair, who we'd just seen on Charlie X.
So there's something...
Tonight we're watching the TV version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (well, technically, several East Coasters are already watching it!) The crowd's a little lighter since many folks saw it at Tricon '66.
Last week, folks liked "Charlie X" more than I thought they would, with one person giving it a 4, most 3s, and one person finding it merited just a 2. Here's the coverage if you've missed it.
Last week, folks liked "Charlie X" more than I thought they would, with one person giving it a 4, most 3s, and one person finding it merited just a 2. Here's the coverage if you've missed it.
I think you guys are missing the mark regarding Kirk's awkwardness in explaining the birds and the bees to Charlie. It's because Kirk suddenly finds himself thrust into the role of surrogate father, which he isn't comfortable with.
I'm curious, when you, for example, indicate an unfamiliarity with the 3-D chessboard, is that a coy, in-character thing, or is this actually your first time watching the show?
I'm curious, when you, for example, indicate an unfamiliarity with the 3-D chessboard, is that a coy, in-character thing, or is this actually your first time watching the show?
I didn't have a problem with the birds and bees bit. I actually quite enjoyed it (though I agree that McCoy fell down on the job there). But every reviewer has their own individual take.
With regard to the question, the conceit of Galactic Journey is that we live back then, observing things in context as if for the first time. There may be occasional sly foreshadowing, but for the most part, we play it straight. For some folks, it is their first time. For me, I have to forget 50 years of Trekkerness. It's actually not as hard as I thought. One learns to compartmentalize in this gig (and I've been living in the past, day by day, for 12 years now...)
That's Ellison behind the mic to the left.Tonight we're watching the TV version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (well, technically, several East Coasters are already watching it!) The crowd's a little lighter since many folks saw it at Tricon '66.
Last week, folks liked "Charlie X" more than I thought they would, with one person giving it a 4, most 3s, and one person finding it merited just a 2. Here's the coverage if you've missed it.
The man on the other side of Roddenberry looks like Dr. J. Allen Hynek. When and where was this photo taken?
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Photo was from the 24th World Science Fiction Convention in Cleveland, 1966, aka Tricon, where the Trek pilots were screened. Left to right it's Ellison, the Bird, and L. Sprage de Camp, with Forest J. Ackerman sitting across from them.
That photo with info can be found here (link). The Tricon photos from that collection are here (link). which comes from a ton more old con photos found here (link).
Here's a gallery of Science Fiction & Fantasy Costume Contestants at Tricon (link).
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Apparently the ones in the Trek costumes were promoting the show. Asherman describes a woman in the WALGMO outfit working the Trek table.
Yes. IIRC in one of those photo collections I linked to you can see her behind the table for Star Trek.
Here's the audience of the Tricon Star Trek screening. (source)
And here's the model in the "What Are Little Girls Made Of" costume at the Trek table. (source) Note the 3 footer Enterprise model on the table, with its starboard nacelle all wonky.
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That's fun. Tho one of your commentators mentions the "Federation", which hadn't been mentioned at this point.
Excellent catch. Fixed and thank you. Half my job as editor is weeding out anachronistic phrases...
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