Alternate Episode Titles…

[ZapBrannigan]

That idea doesn't comport with her behavior once captured.

You're not "wrong," but I can still save this disloyal Commander theory that saves the seriousness of the episode.

• She's been immersed in double-dealing and intrigue for so long that she's still playing her loyal Romulan role aboard the Enterprise from deeply-ingrained (life-saving) habit.

• Also, the Enterprise is intermittently communicating with her flagship, and if the flagship picks up the tiniest hint that she was spying for the Federation, Tal could be investigated and executed. He was her right hand man in the scheme.

• Third: if she's a smart, disciplined spy, she has a task plan detailing when she'll do what. Her plan doesn't say "Laugh and slap Spock on the back the moment you're off your flagship." Kirk and Spock might not learn she was their helper until she has officially defected, and she'll drag that out as long as possible to let the trail go cold on any Romulans who share her ideology, and possibly even to keep the heat off her family. If Romulus is anything like North Korea, her folks could be sent to a concentration camp for what she's done. She might ask to quietly disappear into a Federation colony and never "make the news" at all.

 

[Maurice]

Why bother?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Why bother?

I was trying to make the episode more plausible, the caper less preposterous. Not everybody wants the extra layer, and that's fine too.

 

[korblborp]

A Halloween Caper

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT is extremely odd-ducky.........not because things appear to be going to hell 15 minutes early, but things are actually going to plan 90 percent of the time.

Only in the third season would Spock be ''unprepared'' for a crude C-grade attack.

 

[Just a Bill]

I made a long list based on tweaking the titles of movies from (mostly) the 70s and 80s. There were a lot of duds; here are the ones that survived the cut.

Edit to add: Warning, this is a first amendment zone. You may find one or more of these distasteful or offensive.

The Man Trap →	Beauty is a Beast
That Which Survives →	Girl, Intermittent
All Our Yesterdays →	Planet of the Tapes
Elaan of Troyius →	Mrs. Poutfire
I, Mudd →	When Harry Met Stella
Whom Gods Destroy →	The Loonies
What Are Little Girls Made Of? →	RoboCap
This Side of Paradise →	Germs of Endearment
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield →	Blamer vs. Blamer
Balance of Terror →	0.5 Weddings and a Funeral

 

[Moopsy]

Whom Gods Destroy →

The Loonies

I think it is distasteful to call mentally ill people "loonies."

 

[Just a Bill]

I think it is distasteful to call mentally ill people "loonies."

I agree, for real people. Fictional aliens with blue skin and red boas 60 years ago feels a little different to me. Nevertheless, I've now hidden the offensive speech behind a spoiler tag, and preceded it with a warning.

 

[Metryq]

You're not "wrong," but I can still save this disloyal Commander theory that saves the seriousness of the episode.

Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping, only.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I made a long list based on tweaking the titles of movies from (mostly) the 70s and 80s. There were a lot of duds; here are the ones that survived the cut.

Edit to add: Warning, this is a first amendment zone. You may find one or more of these distasteful or offensive.

The Man Trap →	Beauty is a Beast
That Which Survives →	Girl, Intermittent
All Our Yesterdays →	Planet of the Tapes
Elaan of Troyius →	Mrs. Poutfire
I, Mudd →	When Harry Met Stella
Whom Gods Destroy →	The Loonies
What Are Little Girls Made Of? →	RoboCap
This Side of Paradise →	Germs of Endearment
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield →	Blamer vs. Blamer
Balance of Terror →	0.5 Weddings and a Funeral

Saving your Private Parts for us.

I think it is distasteful to call mentally ill people "loonies."

There's another nail in Alan Alda's M*A*S*H coffin. Harry Morgan played one.

 

[Maurice]

Edit to add: Warning, this is a first amendment zone.

The First Amendment only applies to the government restricting speech.

 

[Just a Bill]

The First Amendment only applies to the government restricting speech.

Correct. I was using the phrase casually/figuratively.

Now I hope somebody will let me know which word or phrase I got wrong in this post. Irregardless of my intent.

 

[Poltargyst]

Correct. I was using the phrase casually/figuratively.

Now I hope somebody will let me know which word or phrase I got wrong in this post. Irregardless of my intent.

Many people reject irregardless as not being a proper word.

Hey, you asked.

 

[I am not Herbert]

Many people reject irregardless as not being a proper word.

ugh

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Many people reject irregardless as not being a proper word.

As I do with ginormous, Uber-anything and meh.

 

[scotpens]

To get the thread back on track, who could forget "Attack of the Flying Fake Vomit"?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Other titles for ''Operation Annihilate!!!!!'':

PRETTY DAMN CONVENIENT TO BRING UP THOSE EXTRA EYELIDS ONLY NOW
THE SEX TURNIPS
I GOT SPOCK, BUT I WAS AIMING FOR THE YEOMAN, DAMMIT
BLOBS OF ECSTACY
SOMTIMES YOU JUST CAN'T GET RID OF A BLOB
BLOBSPOCK
MY ''AFFECTION'' FOR SPOCKO
SHAPE THE HELL UP, SPOCK
CALM DOWN, SPOCK!!!
SPOCK! SPOCK!
BLOB, SPOCK, SPOCK, BLOB
THE GELATINOUS SYNDROME
UHR UHR UHR UHR UHR UHR UHR UHR
DA THIRD ALTERNATIVE
OPERATION: HOTSEAT
RESOLUTION: HORSES$%T!!
SUPPOSE YOUR BRO DIED AND NOBODY CARED
DEAD BROS AND LIVE SPOCKS
SPOCK THANKS McCOY, FILM AT 1156.3
DON'T @#$% WITH THE SCOTTY, SPOCKY
THEY DIDN'T LOOK REAL
THE PIZZA COLONISTS
IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR THEM SHLORP
HOT MESS
GLOPPY WORLD
TAKE THE SHIP UP
TAKE THE SHIP DOWN
WHICH IS IT?
DOCTOR BONEHEAD
IT SLIMED ME
IT NERVED ME ALSO
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BLOBS BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
THE PANCAKES OF DENEVA
GETTING JIGGY WITH SPOCK
HENTAI SPOCK
SPOCKMATE
SHUT UP, SPOCK, WE'RE BLINDING YOU
VERY WELL, DOCTOR
REMEMBER SPOCK: NEVER @#$% WITH THE SCOTTY (summer rerun)
AI YAI YAI