Journey to Babel was a great episode. Mark Lenard and Jane Wyatt are great as Spock's parents. The scene where Amanda tries to convince Spock to undergo the operation to save his father is one of the best in Star Trek history. The music helps pull the emotional heart strings. Both actors played it perfectly. There are a couple of scenes that seem a little sudden to me. The scene where the Tellerite is found murdered seemed to come out of nowhere and the scene where Kirk is all of sudden fighting the Orion. The previous scenes did not seem to preview these important scenes. Also, as the Old Mixer mentioned about McCoy mispronouncing a word, I noticed McCoy pronounced Sarek's name as Surak. I found that amusing.
50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread
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This is one of the great episodes of Star Trek and gives us much of the background of Spock and Vulcans. You get to understand why Spock is like he is. Mark Lenard is so charismatic as Sarek even though he's one of the worst fathers in Star Trek history. My favourite Sarek even though the others are infinitely nicer.
I wonder how they get so many ambassadors on board even though Uhura had to give up her cabin in Elaan of Troyus.
Are Starfleet mad sending the Enterprise out on her own with no ships in support?
It wasn't so much "have to" from a scarcity of suitable for an ambassador quarters onboard, but rather the nicest decorated, in terms of Nyota's personal touches. As the only apparent senior staff woman onboard, her quarters are not only spacious but therefore are best decorated as well. She may have had a reputation for less spare decor and a more homey feel, having invited her friends in to have some tea at times. Elaan, being spoiled, demands the best, and if Uhura has to go without her aesthetics touches for a couple of nights, what is that to her?
Watched The Enemy Within the other day. Never one of my favorite episodes except for the awesome......
Throughout the entire episode I'm thinking, "wtf?? just send a shuttle down to get Sulu and company!" I forgot that the shuttle doesn't make its first appearance until Galileo Seven.
Throughout the entire episode I'm thinking, "wtf?? just send a shuttle down to get Sulu and company!" I forgot that the shuttle doesn't make its first appearance until Galileo Seven.
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"Friday's Child"
Originally aired December 1, 1967
Stardate 3497.2
What was going on the week the episode aired.
Third in production order for the season, this would be the first episode to give us that fight music cue that they'll use about 80 zillion times in the remaining episodes, correct?
(5:58)
We get what look like some good new shots of the Enterprise as well...she never looked better.
This is our second Klingon episode in either order, and who do we get to follow in Kor's footsteps?
Bob the Discount Klingon.
OK, I went into this looking to give him a second chance, since I've seen some Mod Squad in recent years. He wasn't bad...but I can't help thinking that the stunt double who takes the kleegat for him actually makes for a more impressive-looking Klingon.
And Bob brings his Discount Klingon Ship...a vaguely clothes iron-shaped blob which, now that I think of it, always reminded me of...
The episode lays a bit of groundwork for Enterprise, establishing that freighters can only go Warp 2. Evidently those Warp 5 engines hadn't made it into the commercial sector yet a century later.
What the hell does Bones use those Bonfire Tablets for, anyway?
This episode gives us some good Scotty in charge business to make up for his embarrassing displays in certain other episodes. As for the story on the planet, our Big Three landing party (minus redshirt disposed of in the teaser) finds itself in a good, challenging situation and acquit themselves well without their phasers.
Next week, a strange disease shows the crew of the Enterprise what they won't look like in 40 or 50 years:
"Friday's Child"
Originally aired December 1, 1967
Stardate 3497.2
MeTV said:
What was going on the week the episode aired.
Was Eartha Kitt in this episode?
Third in production order for the season, this would be the first episode to give us that fight music cue that they'll use about 80 zillion times in the remaining episodes, correct?
(5:58)
We get what look like some good new shots of the Enterprise as well...she never looked better.
This is our second Klingon episode in either order, and who do we get to follow in Kor's footsteps?
Bob the Discount Klingon.
OK, I went into this looking to give him a second chance, since I've seen some Mod Squad in recent years. He wasn't bad...but I can't help thinking that the stunt double who takes the kleegat for him actually makes for a more impressive-looking Klingon.
And Bob brings his Discount Klingon Ship...a vaguely clothes iron-shaped blob which, now that I think of it, always reminded me of...
The episode lays a bit of groundwork for Enterprise, establishing that freighters can only go Warp 2. Evidently those Warp 5 engines hadn't made it into the commercial sector yet a century later.
What the hell does Bones use those Bonfire Tablets for, anyway?
This episode gives us some good Scotty in charge business to make up for his embarrassing displays in certain other episodes. As for the story on the planet, our Big Three landing party (minus redshirt disposed of in the teaser) finds itself in a good, challenging situation and acquit themselves well without their phasers.
No, they were busy on Tarzan that night, with Harry Townes leading the charge...coming to the aid of a group of religious pilgrims led by Ethel Merman.Captain Kirk said:
Next week, a strange disease shows the crew of the Enterprise what they won't look like in 40 or 50 years:
I noticed McCoy mispronouncing Sarek's name years back and thought that he might be confusing Spock's Father with the Father of all Vulcan logic In truth it was DeForest Kelley's deep south accent because Surak hadn't been invented at that time!
Apart from that Jonathan guy in The final Frontier who was playing the much younger version of the character for the great Mark Lenard, what other Sarek's have there been, Commish?
The scene with Kras dying was ridiculous. Jay jones who was doubling for Tige Andrews was a lot taller than Andrews and had a full head of hair!!! Why didn't they give him a semi bald pate to wear and not focus the camera on him for so long???
JB
Apart from that Jonathan guy in The final Frontier who was playing the much younger version of the character for the great Mark Lenard, what other Sarek's have there been, Commish?
The scene with Kras dying was ridiculous. Jay jones who was doubling for Tige Andrews was a lot taller than Andrews and had a full head of hair!!! Why didn't they give him a semi bald pate to wear and not focus the camera on him for so long???
JB
I like how they started the episode with the crew watching the trailer for the episode at the briefing.
(Bones hasn't aged a day, literally, since the last time he visited this planet)
I'm not gonna make a catfight pun here.
I noticed that both in Journey to Babel and here they just cut to a fight mid-progress, because that way it's dramatic!
He is such a sniveling, dishonorable, cowardly p'tahk he didn't even earn a name for himself...
.... and so is his ship, running away from a fight like that .
It's almost as if the Klingons weren't at all defined just by honor/warrior/"good day to die!" stuff
Cauterization?
Luckily there's another redshirt of the week to handle the embarrassing display by a supposedly well trained officer embarking on a serious sensitive away mission, followed by dying from a rather impractical ninja star do the chest.
Scotty basically falls for the Kobayashi Maru(without the ambush variant). The ships are named Dierdre and Caroline, probably picked by Klingons from a list of all time most popular Earth girl names for Earth ships of the Earth Federation
Spock gets to hold a baby and a bow. He handles neither with grace. Vulcans were so embarrassed by this display they opened an Archery Academy that Tuvok would later teach at.
(It's next to the Baby Holding Academy)
(Bones hasn't aged a day, literally, since the last time he visited this planet)
I'm not gonna make a catfight pun here.
I noticed that both in Journey to Babel and here they just cut to a fight mid-progress, because that way it's dramatic!
He is such a sniveling, dishonorable, cowardly p'tahk he didn't even earn a name for himself...
.... and so is his ship, running away from a fight like that .
It's almost as if the Klingons weren't at all defined just by honor/warrior/"good day to die!" stuff
Cauterization?
Luckily there's another redshirt of the week to handle the embarrassing display by a supposedly well trained officer embarking on a serious sensitive away mission, followed by dying from a rather impractical ninja star do the chest.
Scotty basically falls for the Kobayashi Maru(without the ambush variant). The ships are named Dierdre and Caroline, probably picked by Klingons from a list of all time most popular Earth girl names for Earth ships of the Earth Federation
Spock gets to hold a baby and a bow. He handles neither with grace. Vulcans were so embarrassed by this display they opened an Archery Academy that Tuvok would later teach at.
(It's next to the Baby Holding Academy)
As has been pointed out to me in the past when I was quick to make cracks about Bob the Discount Klingon, he did have a name--Kras--though I don't think it got used onscreen.
I'd have to watch more carefully, but I always though Spock looked pretty cool brandishing the bow.
He was fine, I just had to make fun of him for the last joke of the post, as is the Kirk/Bones custom.
(the arrows were funny though, all wibbly wobbly when they shot them, but flying straight when they hit)
I should add, I thought the humor at the end was well-played this time...both on the planet and the tag scene on the ship.
Strange how Kras was just referred to as Klingon by both Kirk and Maab in the episode!
JB
JB
Friday's Child is a winning episode. Good Kirk Spock and McCoy action on the planet and good to see Scotty, Sulu, Uhura and Checkov on the Enterprise. Julie Newmar is good. I love her interaction with McCoy. Good comedic elements" McCoy, bring Our child" Kirk and Spock reaction is hilarious. Calling Kras Klingon seemed to be used as a slur, not a lot of respect for him. Elaan called him that as well. "Oochy Woochy Coochie Coo is an old earth dialect." Leonard James Akahaar, Spock noted that Kirk and McCoy would be pleased with themselves for a month. Well balanced episode.
Watched The Enemy Within the other day. Never one of my favorite episodes except for the awesome......
Throughout the entire episode I'm thinking, "wtf?? just send a shuttle down to get Sulu and company!" I forgot that the shuttle doesn't make its first appearance until Galileo Seven.
I've always thought that they didn't send the shuttle because the weather in the upper atmosphere would preclude a rescue but in real life terms I know they hadn't invented the shuttlecraft yet!
JB
Isn't the story behind the invention of the transporter that they did invent the shuttlecraft, but didn't have the budget for it?
So did those early episodes assume a shuttlecraft exists, but can't be used due to budget, or did they assume they didn't have one at all?
I don't know. But even if shuttles did exist and they didn't have the budget to actually show them, they still could have sent one down off screen to the planet to rescue Sulu and friends.
Actually, I think it's the Carolina as in the state (or any current ships named for it). And said ships may actually be assigned to this sector, gleaned from Klingon intelligence reports.
It's The Carolina and The Deidre, although it is pronounced Deidra!
JB
JB
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