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I'm so late for this it's devastating. My favourite author is dead. Favourite in the sense of always looking forward to the next book the minute I put down the current one. Christopher Priest died of cancer aged 80 in February this year, real time, but yesterday afternoon subjective time. How...

Love that comparison.

Or a combination. I’m old enough to remember the introduction of serialisation in television shows, notably in the form of Hill Street Blues and St Elsewhere. They had an excellent balance in that shows would have elements that were the feature of the individual episodes, plus important...

The original outline, as noted by many above, has its moments, but I think the final episode is quite excellent. I do like the fact that the spores could be negotiated with rather than just zapped with an annoying sound. I can’t recall off-hand, but is it plausible that Spock’s original...

The Hollywood Reporter link above has such a rich accounting of her Star Trek episode that it must have been written by both a fan of hers and the show. “On “Mudd’s Women,” which premiered on Oct. 13, 1966, as the sixth episode of NBC’s Star Trek — it was shot as the series’ second installment...

The close-up work is amazing. Such care, creativity and attention to detail.

The screenwriter wrote this memorable albeit predictable episode of the ‘80s iteration of The Twilight Zone, so he’s been around a while. Weigh that for credibility. I seem to recall something similar in Ronald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected series.

You might like this Mike Douglas interview with Shatner of the very topic of the performance in Turnabout Intruder.

The very last scene in Requiem for Methuselah. The episode isn’t terrible, just bland and weird (Kirk falls so deeply and tragically in love in a couple of hours). But the final scene where Spock is moved to help Kirk get past his pain is touching.

I’ve often thought I’d like to see Star Trek “invented” today. That is, imagine there’s not Star Trek but someone wanted to do a space show that allowed them to explore stories otherwise unable to be told, inviting the best SF writers of the day to contribute. With a desire to be something that...

Great answers. Perhaps it’s also something to do with “look more human” virus that the TOS gang seems to have shaken off.

She did some of the best episodes of the marvellous Hill Street Blues, and it’s strange spin-off, Beverly Hills Buntz.

True, but oddly aged after twenty years relative to Kor, Kang and Koloth after “eighty” (real-world explanation notwithstanding). Just something that struck me after recently watching a YouTube clip about the original series Klingons.

Hi, Yorick from Omega Sector here. A fellow of infinite jest and terrible typing skills. A bonehead by any other name.

Yes, it always seems as if TOS technology has dated. But I wonder if that is actually the case, and whether this could be addressed in a couple of lines of dialogue. Take your tricorder/smartphone example. It sure seems Spockian scanning for my bus's location as I wait at the stop, or checking...