Harder, Stronger, Faster, Onward

[scotpens]

I still don't see how Charlie was able to escape the original planet surface in the first place, still, it was a decent episode that tackled the issue of teenage rebellion against authority.

I always took it that the Antares stopped at the planet and picked up Charlie while the Thasians were on the loo.

Do non-corporeal entities need to use toilets?

 

[F. King Daniel]

As far as canon goes, the 203 number is included in "The Menagerie".

I wasn't saying that the original crew compliment wasn't canon, but rather the original intended scale of the ship. I'm sure we can all agree that the ship didn't double in size between refits!

But IRL they did add more windows to the model and shrink the bridge dome to make it look bigger. I wonder if there are any ancient schematics out there with an Enterprise that measures 500 feet and has a one-deck saucer rim...

 

[Saganistheman]

Season 1 Episode 4 "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

A decent episode. The begining of the episode reminded a bit of the 1st Star Trek movie when Veger probes the Enterprise and it's crew.

I wonder how those eye lenses felt during that time. Contact lenses really didn't become popular until the mid 80's. No wonder LC Gary Mitchell looked as if his eyes were irritated throughout the episode.

Dang, those Federation phase rifles are clunky looking.


Season 1 Episode 5 "The Naked Time"

Lots of funny stuff in this one, but the main hilarity comes from Sulu prancing around half naked with a fencing foil. Also, Spock trying to cry...Bill Shatner is not the only actor overdoing some stuff in this series.

This episode had a major question for me. Ok, in Enterprise they had a chef, but they also had a food replicator that I only saw dispense liquids. In this TOS episode LJG Joe Tormolen is in the mess hall and is at the food replicator getting food. You see him stick in a yellow disk, get his food and then he removes the disk. Speculation anyone on the need to insert a disk into the replicator? I don't remember seeing the food replicator needing anything but a verbal command. Am I wrong?

 

[scotpens]

I wonder how those eye lenses felt during that time. Contact lenses really didn't become popular until the mid 80's. No wonder LC Gary Mitchell looked as if his eyes were irritated throughout the episode.

The story goes that Sally Kellerman had no trouble wearing the custom-made double-thick contacts, but they caused Gary Lockwood a lot of discomfort.

BTW, I don't know where you get your information, but modern corneal contact lenses have been widely used since the 1960s. (I first got them in 1972.)

 

[Warped9]

The verbal command replicator is a TNG invention. And it was a phaser rifle, not a phase rifle. Also WNMHGB was aired out of production order because it's actually the 2nd pilot episode that sold Star Trek as a series. And if WNMHGB hadn't sold (being Desilu Studios' second chance after "The Cage") then there never would have been any later films or spinoff series to compare TOS with because there'd have been no TOS.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I love Where No Man Has Gone Before! It's one of my favorite TOS episodes. I love the camera angles that are very different from anything we see in any of the 3 seasons. Gary Lockwood is a really solid actor, I love his portrayal and Sally Kellerman was perfectly cast as his ESP soulmate. Unfortunately, she is given nothing to do, other than look cute, for the most part, until the exciting climax where James R. Kirk almost gets it!

 

[Saganistheman]

BTW, I don't know where you get your information, but modern corneal contact lenses have been widely used since the 1960s. (I first got them in 1972.)

Whoops that was a typo. I meant to say 70's. I actually got mine in 1976 and I remember my mother having to give my elementary teacher instructions on what to do if they ever popped out....all the kid's thought I was cool because I had them and no one had ever seen them before.

But enough blather, I still would have to explain my information because I really did not know they were in wide use in the 60's. I guess I just assumed and assumed wrong.

 

[Saganistheman]

Season 1 Episode 6 "The Enemy Within"

Yes I like the story arc. It was creative using the transporter that way to cause a dilemma.

2 major issues with the episode:

1.) Why the hell did they not just use a shuttle craft to pick up Sulu and the other geologist on the surface....hell Archer and Tripp used the shuttle all the time in much more hazardous situations.

2.) What in the hell is Kirk doing with make-up in his quarters? He uses make-up from his own quarters to cover the scratches Rand put on him. Did not know foundation was standard issue to all Starfleet captains!

 

[scotpens]

1.) Why the hell did they not just use a shuttle craft to pick up Sulu and the other geologist on the surface....hell Archer and Tripp used the shuttle all the time in much more hazardous situations.

You're new here, aren't you?

Really, though, the in-universe explanation for why they didn't use a shuttlecraft is whatever you want it to be.

And remember that comparisons between Enterprise and Star Trek TOS are always going to be problematic, since the prequel series was made 35 years after the original.

 

[Saganistheman]

Season 1 Episode 7 "Mudd's Women"

Not a big fan of this episode. Complete yawn fest for me, and the chest hair creeping up Mudd's neck made me so uneasy I could not finish my chocolate pudding...and I don't like it when my pudding routine is interrupted.

 

[Warped9]

Some nice looking women to ogle and you're worried about Mudd's chest hair?

 

[Maurice]

It's funny how ridiculous people are about hair. It's oooooh so sexy when it's in certain spots, but move it an inch out of the expected zone and some people act like they're seeing a cockroach on their cheeseburger.

Also, Warped9, not everyone has an interest in oogling nice looking women.

 

[trevanian]

I'm guilty as hell on that. It always has driven me nuts that I can barely get any sideburns to grow, but then just a little bit in from there, I can get a virtual moustache to grow in my ears. Plus I had a huge unabrow I had to pluck pretty much daily from 15 to 40 before it gave up the ghost.

Now that I've been happy with my face and content to go salt&pepper for awhile, my hairline has finally started getting spotty up front ... and of course that's all I can see.

Is there in truth no beauty indeed! I'm not so critical of girls.

 

[Saganistheman]

Some nice looking women to ogle and you're worried about Mudd's chest hair?

Not worried about it. It just turned my stomach while I was eating my pudding.

And ogling women; really? What exactly are you implying here? Not every man has lust and sex on the brain.

 

[Warped9]

Some nice looking women to ogle and you're worried about Mudd's chest hair?

Not worried about it. It just turned my stomach while I was eating my pudding.

And ogling women; really? What exactly are you implying here? Not every man has lust and sex on the brain.

No worrries, man. I certainly understand that. It was just my way of saying that Mudd's chest hair seemed such an unusual thing to fosus on or notice.

 

[Saganistheman]

No worrries, man. I certainly understand that. It was just my way of saying that Mudd's chest hair seemed such an unusual thing to fosus on or notice.

No harm no foul. I am just pointing out certain things that struck me as strange and funny about each episode. Also I tend to ask questions that more learned people can answer or clear up for me. I watched the show back in the 70's when I was a kid, and now through adult eyes it is a very different experience.

I don't really want to necessarily recap the entire episode and give my opinions on every single thing, because that has already been done....and we have wiki's. I also try to be somewhat humorous.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Of interest in this episode is that upon seeing Spock, Mudd identifies him as "part Vulcanian"...an early implication that full-blooded Vulcans weren't intended to look exactly like Spock.

and the chest hair creeping up Mudd's neck made me so uneasy I could not finish my chocolate pudding

(I think I took that in the spirit intended.)

Plus I had a huge unabrow I had to pluck pretty much daily from 15 to 40 before it gave up the ghost.

Pluck? I shave that spot.

 

[Saganistheman]

Season 1 Episode 8 "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

Decent plot. Good episode.

First episode where Red Shirts die and show how expendable they are.

Red Shirt Body Count: 2 - One thrown off a ledge into a bottomless pit. One strangled or broken neck.

How do you create a perfect android? Dr. Soong got it wrong. All you have to do is put a deformed foam body cast on one side of a merry-go-round you lay on, and then put someone you want to copy on the other side and spin them around real fast and <poof> you have an android.

Funniest part: The look on Kirk's face when Nurse Chapel meets and kisses her finance Dr. Korbey.

 

[Warped9]

Season 1 Episode 8 "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

Decent plot. Good episode.

First episode where Red Shirts die and show how expendable they are.

Red Shirt Body Count: 2 - One thrown off a ledge into a bottomless pit. One strangled or broken neck.

How do you create a perfect android? Dr. Soong got it wrong. All you have to do is put a deformed foam body cast on one side of a merry-go-round you lay on, and then put someone you want to copy on the other side and spin them around real fast and <poof> you have an android.

Funniest part: The look on Kirk's face when Nurse Chapel meets and kisses her finance Dr. Korbey.

When I was younger I didn't care for this episode much, but now I quite appreciate it. I like how the androids are depicted. They seem very human like except for an element of emotional flatness. Except for Ruk and Corby who come across as much more fleshed out and near indistinguishable from living beings. The androids here (and later in "Requiem For Methuselah") make Data look rather laughable in the beginning. It's interesting how "the old ones" in WALGMO managed almost perfect androids long long, long before Dr. Soong came along.

 

[The Old Mixer]

This episode's takeaways:

1) Sherry Jackson
2) Kirk brandishing a fake stalagmite that looks more than a little phallic.

The androids here (and later in "Requiem For Methuselah") make Data look rather laughable in the beginning. It's interesting how "the old ones" in WALGMO managed almost perfect androids long long, long before Dr. Soong came along.

OTOH, we have Mudd's androids...throw them a little nonsensical behavior and smoke starts coming out of their ears....