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Correct me if I'm wrong--and forgive me if someone else made this point--but Spock had no reason, really, to blame Khan, since the damage that Kirk died repairing was inflicted by Marcus.

Forbidden Planet is a "ripoff" of The Tempest--it's what the episode did with the stuff it ripped off that matters. Balance of Terror has long been one of my all-time favorites.

This presentation sounds fascinating--I love in-depth analysis of Star Trek as a form of American literary and cinematic art.

They behaved exactly as photon toroedoes are described in the Season 2 Writer's Guide, which describes them as being used like depth charges. It was, what, episode 9? Not surprising.

Heh. Takes all kinds. I always liked that composition on TAS.

I generally prefer the originals but "Amok Time" has some nice additions. I like the extreme close-up of the Enterprise as she flies past he camera--a CGI-recreation of something seen only in TAS--and the planet-side scenes were cool.

Yeah, the effects we are shown are that of torpedoes.

As well you should.

And thank you, JWPlatt, for having my proverbial back.

I may have over-stated my case. I do think McCoy likes and respects--even, in a way, loves--Spock. But I also think his antipathy is hardly feigned. "Amok Time" is interesting because McCoy is the hero of the piece. He notes Spock's distress before Kirk and, in administering the...

This is an essay I wrote just because: "That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost!" --Dr. McCoy, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek fans don't just watch a lot of Star Trek. We read a lot of it, too: novelizations of episodes and movies...

Even so, as established in Star Trek, long range scanners would pick up five planets, a debris field, and whatever lay beyond the now non-existent Ceti Alpha VI. If four had blown up, they's pick up three planets, a debris field, and Ceti Alpha IV nee V. So I stand by my criticism, whether it...

I've said this before: Nero should have locked a tractor beam on Enterprise, echoing Kruge's ankle grab in TSFS. I'd have had Kirk sigh and quietly say, "I've had enough of you" before ordering the deadly salvo.

The real problem is that, while it makes sense to confuse the fifth planet for the fourth if the fourth blows up, I still can't figure out how you confuse the fifth for the sixth if the sixth blows up. It's not Starfleet that can't count, apparently, just Reliant.

I have a gripe with a gripe: the Chekov thing. The Enterprise is a big ship. The events of "Space Seed" are not in real time--there's much we don't see. It's hardly a stretch to conclude that Chekov was already a crew member--perhaps part of the security detail assigned to Khan--but not yet a...

How evil was he, really? It was diffucult to tell if this Khan had the dreams of conquest of his "Space Seed" counterpart. He only goes batshit total destruction once Kirk double-crosses him.

Okay, maybe--but he should have had a chance to USE that sexiness.

For all the noise made about Cumberbatch as an actor, I think Bana managed to be more interesting in what was a terribly underwritten part. Though much of his performance was generic sci-fi villain, he did have moments like "Hi, Chris. I'm Nero." Cumberbatch was NOTHING but generic sci-fi...

You're thinking correctly--a line Benny Russell echoes in "Far Beyond the Stars," btw, a sly call-back suggesting that all of Star Trek flowed from his imagination and that Daystrom was a forerunner of Ben Sisko. "He's a boy, he doesn't know what life is."

"I created it!"