50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread
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It wasn't really canceled since it never entered production.
Whatever you call it, something was done that prevented it from entering production.
Kirk did claim that Mr.Seven and Roberta would be having some very interesting adventures though!
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They were classified
Indeed they were and Kirk said that he couldn't reveal that to Mr.Seven as like himself he refused to give any information on his mysterious benefactors!
JB
I've never really had as much fun watching TV as I did watching "The Doomsday Machine" as a kid in the 1970s. 
Long before I heard of Doctor Who or Daleks, I did what British kids had done for years: I hid behind the couch.I've never really had as much fun watching TV as I did watching "The Doomsday Machine" as a kid in the 1970s.
The Doomsday Machine is one of Star Trek's best episodes but as a kid I found it quite boring as I remember! But after seeing it again in the 1979 repeat season I couldn't believe how good it was! Now it's always in my top ten of Trek episodes!
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I guess when you're a kid, you don't appreciate the tense dialogue and expository storytelling. Drama to you is explosions, fisticuffs, weapons, and yelling.
I dunno. I saw Doomsday Machine when I was seven or eight and it was definitely a highlight. It stood out enough that I knew "Spock! Transmit now!" in TMP was a riff on DM.
You want an episode that was boring when I was seven? Space Seed! When Wrath of Khan came out I had no idea that I'd even seen it!
You want an episode that was boring when I was seven? Space Seed! When Wrath of Khan came out I had no idea that I'd even seen it!
I think I missed the weekly new planet or such because I never really enjoyed any of the episodes that were set in space as a kid!
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The first time I saw it as a kid it was The Corbomite Maneuver in German dub, and I don't speak German, so I had no idea what was going on but I liked that it was in space and very colorful. I do remember thinking "Silly Germans, they had an old guy dub for the kid." 
Or when they inhabited the human(oid?) shells they were so fond of insulting while being stuck in them. (Never mind Spock's attempt to use a winded litany to describe what takes less time to show in a Jefferson Airplane video...)
I liked the continuity with the crushed isohedron cubes as they are handed over. Would have been a very easy blooper to make...
"By Any Other Name" has a lot of great dialogue that only TOS can do, but the basic storyline is remarkably generic, while creating a discontinuity regarding the barrier (passing through it without being damaged, did the Federation really be able to come up with proper defenses against it in such a short period of time?). Which is okay, Trek V: TFF thought the barrier was in the center of the universe.
Those were cuboctahedrons. Not icosahedrons. Not dodecahedrons. Cuboctahedrons, dammit!
(If we didn't nitpick, we'd lose our geek cred.
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