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I've just finished the sixth episode of the second season of Star Trek in the Galactic Journey's weekly watching. Over the past ~35 episodes, I've started to notice the particular touches of each director: Pevney is somewhat staid and stagey. Daniels is more dramatic and innovative. Looking...

At no point in "Amok Time" is it said that Pon Farr renews, and certainly not every seven years. What is said is that T'Pring and Spock were seven when they were betrothed (with the strong implication that they have not seen each other since). Interestingly, in "Spockanalia", released 9-1-67...

In "Who Mourns for Adonais", McCoy notes that "Scotty doesn't believe in gods." Kirk later says, "We have no need for gods--we find the One quite sufficient." That bit at the end feels tacked on at the last minute, a sop to censors or middle America. Does anyone know if that line was always in...

When I was 8 years old, living in El Centro, CA, KTLA (locally channel 5, but channel 6 in El Centro) showed 15 episodes of Star Trek starting at 7am and ending at 10pm. The episodes shown (and I believe the correct order) was: Errand of Mercy I. Mudd Catspaw Patterns of Force Who mourns for...

We watched the summer rerun of Space Seed last night, and it was very interesting watching the various reactions, particularly among the women watchers. Two found him outright revolting, his aggressive seduction off-putting. Others found him sexy, particularly the hair fondling scene. My wife...

I was listening to Leonard Nimoy's first album today (came out at the end of the first season, in early '67), and when we got to Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth, I noted this remarkable stanza: Now, as to the matter of space sanitation, will you take a moment to consider all the littering and...

"150 men women and children" Where are the children? "I examined people age 23 to 59" No one under 23. It was probably too gruesome a conclusion to dwell on in the episode, but I'm pretty sure the spores can't inhabit teens or children. And that means dozens died...

Folks often note the contrast between the underplayed, nuanced performance Shatner gave as Kirk in the first season, and the more...notable performances that typified the character later in the show. This article, from latter July 1967 (reprinted in dozens, if not hundreds, of newspapers), is...

I just rewatched the TOS episode "Arena" last night. I'd given it a near perfect score the first time through, and it held up pretty well this second time around. If anything, it was helped by watching it on the small screen this time: What struck me strongly this time was how justified the...

At first blush, it might appear that the Gorns overreacted a tad at our colony on Cestus III. After all, couldn't they have just talked to us instead of massacring us? And then I thought about it from the Native American perspective. If they knew the future, really the only move to make when...

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We're all familiar with the Big Three, the Little Four, the Other Three, not to mention the host of one-off guest stars. But what about those folks who maybe got one or two lines through the whole show, or maybe never even got a title credit? What of the extras who appeared in episodes after...

Many don't know that Captain Pike also went to Vulcan and had to fight in a Pon Farr... (okay, it's really Jeffrey Hunter fighting Ed Ames on Daniel Boone, but darned if Ames doesn't look awfully Vulcan...)

According to the caption, this image is from Tricon '66 -- but the only Trek showed at Tricon was the first two pilots. This is clearly from a later episode. Some canny person might even be able to tell which one. Any idea what's going on?

In the 1st season (which we just finished -- reruns start this week), we see Scott take the center seat once in "A Taste of Armageddon". Sulu has it at least twice that I recall: in "Arena" and "Errand of Mercy". Those are also both higher stakes situations--the ship is in combat, at war in the...

The general consensus about "The Alternative Factor" is that it's a stinker, perhaps the worst episode of Star Trek (certainly the worst of Season One). But everyone liked Charlene Masters, the brave engineer who put ship and crew above personal safety. Nevertheless, some nagging questions...

Our group just read Yandro 168, a fanzine that came out in March '67, as prelude to tonight's episode of Star Trek ("Errand of Mercy" -- aired 3-23-67). One of the articles discussed all of the episodes that had aired in 1966. Why did it stop with "Shore Leave"? Because only episodes that aired...

On January 26, 1967, "Tomorrow is Yesterday" aired. It was kind of a goofy episode, wherein the Enterprise found itself back in the late 1960s, the exact date determined by a news broadcast picked up by Lt. Uhura. For "next Wednesday", three astronauts were scheduled for the first Moon launch...

Hallo. If you're interested, I'm doing a fun Ask Me Anything on Reddit today. One of the big topics is our TOS watch-through with original commercials on original airdates. We're also talking about the 60s, women in science fiction, space history, my Kitra books, and more... Y'all come...

At least one person has expressed interest in an analysis of the fanzines contemporary to the original showing of TOS to gauge fan reaction. Since FANAC has lots of 'zines, and as I have a collection of all the (known) extant Trekzines from the 60s, I might as well log what I found out for the...