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What's interesting here is if they're so intelligent, why can't they find another way to survive or develop the discipline not to rely on their power of illusion so much? Can't they learn everything they've forgotten how to do? I don't hold it against the episode because it makes clear that the Talosians don't think like we do. How we think is a mystery to them, so how they think should be a mystery to us.
What they need is a group of Vulcans. :vulcan:
As much as I like TOS, I wish it would've somehow been possible to have also had a show with this cast. I like "The Cage" just as much now as when I first saw it. I give it a 10.
Aside for casting, isn't that Strange New Worlds. :shifty:

I also give it a 10. :techman:
 
Aside for casting, isn't that Strange New Worlds. :shifty:
I meant this particular cast back in the '60s, including with the characters of Boyce and Colt. I could take or leave Tyler, he feels more like Burt Ward's Robin. I like Anson Mount, but his portrayal of Pike is vastly different from Jeff Hunter's. I would've liked to have seen more of Hunter's Pike in this "What If?" Scenario.

What they need is a group of Vulcans. :vulcan:
Hmm. I don't think the Vulcans would find captivity logical. I think they'd have taken Number One's stance. What they might've done was find a way to negotiate something with the Talosians.
 
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Regarding By Any Other Name....whilst it is certainly not a comic episode, its strength lies in the balance of horror and comedy.
Or the quality of both. The solution to the dilemma was too light for some, after what happened to the yeoman with Sarah Palin's voice. Had BAON maintained the grimness all the way to the end, it'd have to be an HBO production as opposed to the feel-good ending we received.
 
But younger Vulcans found bullying Spock logical. I always found that particularly sad.
It is sad. But what's even more sad is it is not surprising in the least.

Vulcans have always had that superiority complex and condescending attitude. Especially with non-Vulcans. Spock, being half human, was always going to be a target for bullying by Vulcan children.
 
It is sad. But what's even more sad is it is not surprising in the least.

Vulcans have always had that superiority complex and condescending attitude. Especially with non-Vulcans. Spock, being half human, was always going to be a target for bullying by Vulcan children.
"Are there human or are thee Vulcan." T'Pau asks this of Spock in "Amok Time." Sarek is shown saying "so human" as part of Spock's pain.

The judgement was present very heavily so kids acting this way isn't a surprise if adults are modeling this behavior.
 
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"Are there human aloe are thee Vulcan." T'Pau asks this of Spock in "Amok Time." Sarek is shown saying "so human" as part of Spock's pain.

The judgement was present very heavily so kids acting this way isn't a surprise if adults are modeling this behavior.
I have seen that behavior in people all my life. People who have that condescending attitude and superiority complex are, unfortunately, easy to find everywhere. (Particularly in certain professions.) And they do their own type of bullying.
 
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I'm aware, I had that in mind when I said what I said. Literally Spock has been out of the womb for what, a minute? What would Sarek's words possibly be based on if not baby Spock's looks?
 
I'm aware, I had that in mind when I said what I said. Literally Spock has been out of the womb for what, a minute? What would Sarek's words possibly be based on if not baby Spock's looks?
I don’t think Sarek actually said those words. It’s Spock’s own inner inadequacies speaking. It’s how he feels Sarek sees him.
 
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I meant this particular cast back in the '60s, including with the characters of Boyce and Colt. I could take or leave Tyler, he feels more like Burt Ward's Robin. I like Anson Mount, but his portrayal of Pike is vastly different from Jeff Hunter's. I would've liked to have seen more of Hunter's Pike in this "What If?" Scenario.
Really worth checking out the Star Trek: Early Voyages comic series that Marvel did in the late 1990's. They've been reprinted and collected a few times, so maybe you could request a copy through interlibrary loan. At some point in the late 2000's a DVD ROM of Star Trek comic PDFs was published as well.

Plus, you could get a head start on what OTOY might be dropping next.
 
Really worth checking out the Star Trek: Early Voyages comic series that Marvel did in the late 1990's. They've been reprinted and collected a few times, so maybe you could request a copy through interlibrary loan. At some point in the late 2000's a DVD ROM of Star Trek comic PDFs was published as well.
Fate's so twisted.

I'll re-pick up Early Voyages at some point. I bought some issues of Early Voyages when I was in high school but, several years ago, I ended up throwing them out along with most of rest of my comic collection. Only graphic novels survived my cut.

And then -- true to life -- after I threw them out, now I'm interested in checking them out again!

DC Comics also had a few Pike issues during the '80s and '90s. The fourth annual from their second run back in 1993. And then one of the annuals in the '80s.

In the letters column of one of the DC Comics issues of Star Trek in 1993, there's a letter from a very young Lord Garth. I'll never say exactly where for people to find because I don't want to embarrass myself. :alienblush:
 
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