Day of the Dove: Discuss

Any one of the Klingon women that we saw from TNG onward would have wiped the floor with Chekov.

 

One I always wanted a follow up to. Our heroes find a derelict starship/starbase where the entity has been for a century.

"Century of the Dove".

 

Sounds scary.

 

I play the FASA STRPG and that sounds like a brilliant inspiration for a scenario.

Thank you.

 

Thanks y'all! It makes perfect sense about cutting the show for time and/or as a preemptive censor. I think some networks here still cut out the weird humiliation scenes in Plato's and the dancing part when the crew is destroying the Norman robots in I Mudd in order to add more commercials. (Incidentally, that is one of my favorite examples of Kirk talking a robot to death )

You're right about the scene, johnnybear... I agree. It just seems so tame now. Same with the Triskelion episode where Uhura meets her training thrall--the Hitchcock quality of not actually seeing the violence always scared me terribly--but that's nothing to TV today.

 

Would you say you were a fan then, C5?
JB

 

Even the Klingon gal in the background scenes of Dove looks like she could whip Chekov, Push!
JB

 

I liked how you know exactly what Chekov's about to do to Mara, just by his dropping the sword. As for the BBC, I suspect it's that they have never given up on the idea of science fiction being for children.

 

Just a tiny bit, maybe, JB.

I watch TOS, read TOS and write and run a TOS roleplaying game.

So I guess I'm a fan lol !!

 

Guess you must be then, C5!
JB

 

Apparently Chekov wasn't very good in hand-to-hand combat. For example....



Or....

 

And going by your posts here, I would say that you are a fan too JB??

 

"Day of the Dove" is one of my favorite episodes. The Klingons are depicted well along with their thoughts on the Federation and humans. For this, I consider "Day of the Dove" the best Klingon episode of TOS as I consider "Balance of Terror" a fascinating Romulan episode.

 

It's been more than 25 (maybe 30!) years since I read The Final Reflection...and only saw a few minutes of this episode eon ME_TV (the end)... and it seemed to me to also fit the TNG era portrayal of Klingons...in the noblest sense (i.e. Worf would REALLy like Kang).

Really wish we had been able to see Michael Ansara as Kang again (not including DS9)

 

Wouldn't you rather grapple with a bald headed sixties Klingon than a giant anthropoidic alien my Lord?
JB

Well I think I might be, C5 but not sure really...
JB

 

I'd rather grapple with the Captain's Woman from Mirror, Mirror, JB.

 

I can so concur my Lord! Marlena was absolutely gorgeous!
JB

 

This is my favorite episode of the season and one of the best of the run. A really good look at Klingon society and in Kang we have a complex and moral villain. He and Kirk and so evenly matched and I love the fairly open ending of the story. I wish these were run in production order, or closer to it, as this would have been really the last time anyone saw the Klingons until the films (not including the illusionary Kahless in "The Savage Curtain"). One gets the impression perhaps a greater effort towards peace was made by the way this ends.

Soild. I rewatch this one a lot.

 

And definitely not including VOY's "Flashback."

Kor

 

A scene not filmed (I believe) had The Enterprise dropping Kang and his crew off on a neutral planet and the seeds of an understanding between their respective ideaologies was sown!
JB