50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread

That's an apt description of the episodes' tonal shifts from mass murder to silly humor in a heartbeat.
I guess the writer was a woman?

The accent wasn't enough so they decided to go full stereotype of the brawling Scotsman?
To be fair, at least in this episode he only did it once.
As for repetitiveness, we didn't need two sets of security guards vapourized in the exact same way.

Well executed scene, but he essentially mind melded with a mindless machine here, which is why the complaints about the "magical" properties of mind melds about the current show seem silly. They work how any given episode wants them to work really...

That's the real reason why Nomad killed Scotty, the only person who could do that.


Overall a decent episode with an interesting premise, so interesting they decided to do it again for the first movie, and again on DS9 as the origin story for Odo.

There's a scene there where Chapel and Uhura talk to each other, though it's about a dog running, and Uhura's still half-vegetable, so I'm not sure if that qualifies for the Bechdel test. Still it's way more female interaction than usual on this show.

On the subject of learning, I'm concerned about the standards of education in the Federation if it takes about a week to finish college. Would definitely explain all the science and technology gone wrong episodes though... these people don't know what they're doing because they've learned nothing.

Even though it was tonally a bit weird I liked the humour in the episode, and there was a classic there when Spock compliments Kirk on his use of logic, and Kirk says "Didn't think I had it in me?"
"No"

 

At least NOMAD didn't have a dirty name plate and call its self Noah.

 

I'm sure if we had sent out the Vikings, Pioneers or Voyagers at the time of The Changeling, they would have done something like that. There was just no clever twist to make yet.

 

Or just MAD.

"I am MAD!"
"We see that, but what is your name?"
"I am MAD!"
"We know, you just killed 4 billion people, but what is your name?"
"I am MAD!"
*sigh*

 

The Changeling is an ok episode. Not one of my favorites. I have trouble believing that machine could kill over 4 billion people. Seems a bit implausible to me. It is always nice to see Kirk use his anti-machine logic on a well deserving target. This is another episode where one of the regulars gets killed and is brought back to life. Scotty must control his temper. It sure gets him into trouble. Scotty here is some friendly advice. Do not go down for a vacation on the planet Argelious. Read some technical manuals. You will enjoy yourself much more.

 

"Mirror, Mirror", Episode 33, October 6th

Tonight's Episode: Star Trek's take on the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I think?
Well, McCoy's already Grumpy anyway...

 

I missed it on Friday, luckily my local station is rerunning it in about 5 minutes

 

I bet Mirror Mirror would please Vaal.

 

Yep, it's a classic.

So did this come about as a revisit to the discarded "Pirate Enterprise" idea from The City on the Edge of Forever?

Don't get what the fuss is about the Tantalus field being seen as some amazing unbelievably advanced alien technology, it's essentially CCTV with a transporter that just doesn't rematerialize people.

Considering the amazing coincidence of everyone having a counterpart in the Mirror Universe, does that mean that Mirror Spock's Vulcan henchman has a counterpart on the Enterprise that Spock occasionally hangs out with and they diss the perfect specimens of humanity together?

He talks to Mirror Spock there in the exact same way he talks to computers when he wants them to selfdestruct.
And according to DS9, he totally succeeds!

 

'Mirror, Mirror' is always a fun watch. I followed it with Star Trek Continues "Fairest of Them All' which actually recreates Kirk's beam out speech. That was a great homage, but makes you appreciate Shatner and Nimoy all the more. Their acting makes up for any silliness or cheesiness that some may hurl at TOS.

 

^^
That could only work if Mirror Kirk would be inclined to pretend he's somewhat normal (otherwise it's immediately off to the brig courtesy of Spock), and we already got an "evil" Kirk trying to command the Enterprise in The Enemy Within.

 

Seeing a batshit crazy evil Kirk is why I enjoy the ST Continues so much. The mirror counterparts on our Enterprise probably didn't last five minutes before being discovered. The DS9 Mirror episodes started off good, but made the Terrans weak, not evil. Enterprise finally gave us a Star Fleet crew of bad guys, and let Bakula and the rest chew the scenery to pieces! The TNG Mirror novel still stands out in my memory as some good campy fun. Long live the Empire!

 

This week: Enterprise encounters a society run by a computer...