Dayton Ward & David Mack are re-watching TOS season 3 on the Tor blog

[David Mack]

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It’s Thursday, so you know there’s a new Star Trek Re-watch waiting for you at Tor.com. This week, Dayton Ward and I set our phasers to “snark” and take aim at “The Cloud Minders.” Dayton’s on analysis, and I provide the recap.

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The worst part of this week’s column? Reining in my impulse to make cheap political hay off this infuriating tale of haves vs. have-nots. The best part of this week’s column? Seeing Kirk wear an athletic supporter on his face.

Leave all comments over at the Tor.com article. It creates the illusion that Dayton and I write readable columns.

 

[terpette]

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That made for an entertaining read at work today. And makes reading the CoE story set in Stratos that much more interesting.

Karen

 

[David Mack]

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Welcome to another Thursday and another installment of the tor.com feature Star Trek Re-watch with analysis by yours truly and a recap by the inestimable Dayton Ward. This week we pull back “The Savage Curtain” to find the man standing behind it is… Abraham Lincoln?

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Yeah, it’s gonna be one of those episodes. Pay no attention to the dead president behind the curtain. Instead be amazed that the reason Klingons call Kahless “the Unforgettable” is that he’s the Rich Little of Qo’noS, with his uncannily spot-on voice impressions. Ooo, he does Surak! Ooo, now he does Lincoln! Excuse me, Mister Kahless? Can you do John Wayne?

Only two more third-season episodes to go after this, and then we’ll bring you a season three wrap-up and a special bonus re-watch of the original Star Trek pilot, “The Cage.”

As always, leave all comments on the Tor article, as it will sustain the illusion that what Dayton and I have been doing over there is in any way meaningful or worthwhile.

We’ll see y’all again next week when we present our skewering of “All Our Yesterdays.”

 

[Greg Cox]

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Poor Zora! Kahless and Surak went on to become Star Trek icons, and even Col. Green has lived on in the novels. But who remembers Zora?

 

[SD70ACe]

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You should write a book about her.

And Colonel Green appeared towards the end of Enterprise, albeit as historical footage.

 

[David Mack]

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Poor Zora! Kahless and Surak went on to become Star Trek icons, and even Col. Green has lived on in the novels. But who remembers Zora?

You should write a book about her.

Oh, for Pete's sake, don't tempt Greg! He'll do it, dammit! He's just crazy enough! (Worst of all, it'll probably outsell whatever my latest book is by a margin of 2-to-1.)

 

[Christopher]

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I just made the same point about Zora in my comment on the article. Great minds (or at least Trek-minutiae-obsessed minds) think alike.

 

[Greg Cox]

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Poor Zora! Kahless and Surak went on to become Star Trek icons, and even Col. Green has lived on in the novels. But who remembers Zora?

You should write a book about her.

Oh, for Pete's sake, don't tempt Greg! He'll do it, dammit! He's just crazy enough! (Worst of all, it'll probably outsell whatever my latest book is by a margin of 2-to-1.)

Coming in 2013: The Zora Experiments, Book One.

Just kidding . . . for now.

 

[captcalhoun]

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i rememeber her as 'the evil witch woman, whats'ername'...

as usual, a lot of good chuckles in that.

 

[SD70ACe]

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Oh, for Pete's sake, don't tempt Greg! He'll do it, dammit! He's just crazy enough! (Worst of all, it'll probably outsell whatever my latest book is by a margin of 2-to-1.)

Then you'll just have to write one of your own before he does.

Either way, I win.

 

[Greg Cox]

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Oh, for Pete's sake, don't tempt Greg! He'll do it, dammit! He's just crazy enough! (Worst of all, it'll probably outsell whatever my latest book is by a margin of 2-to-1.)

Then you'll just have to write one of your own before he does.

Either way, I win.

I hear Mirror Zora is a saint . . . .

 

[SD70ACe]

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Great, thanks for spoiling Rise Like Lions.

 

[rfmcdpei]

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Poor Zora! Kahless and Surak went on to become Star Trek icons, and even Col. Green has lived on in the novels. But who remembers Zora?

Actually, she featured in the background of Unspoken Truth.

 

[Greg Cox]

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Poor Zora! Kahless and Surak went on to become Star Trek icons, and even Col. Green has lived on in the novels. But who remembers Zora?

Actually, she featured in the background of Unspoken Truth.

I stand corrected!

 

[David Mack]

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It’s a bigger-than-usual Thursday over at TOR.com. They’ve tweaked their site design in a way that lets it still feel familiar but has a cleaner, sleeker look and feel. And, as an afterthought, they’ve published the latest Star Trek Re-watch column by yours truly and Dayton Ward.

The episode du semaine? “All Our Yesterdays.”
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We’ve had to sit through some painful hours of television while rewatching the third season of the original series, but this is our late reward, and we savor it like a fine wine … because next week we have to watch “Turnabout Intruder.” You have been warned.

As always, please leave all comments on the Tor.com article, so that our corporate masters over there won’t consider the months they’ve spent paying us to write these things as a total waste of time and money.

 

[David Mack]

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It’s Thursday, and that means Dayton Ward and I have finally reached the end of Star Trek’s wildly uneven third season in our tor.com weekly column, Star Trek Re-watch. And not a moment too soon. In fact, approximately fifty minutes and forty seconds too late.

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What can I say about “Turnabout Intruder” that hasn’t already been muttered by its producers between slurred, drunken curses of shameful regret? Plenty, as you’ll see when you click through and read my scathing analysis, which follows Dayton’s hilarious recap.

So, now that we’ve reached the third season’s final episode, that must mean we’re done, right? Not quite.

Next week we’ll bring you our wrap-up column, in which we compare our thoughts about the third season from atrocious start to embarrassing finish and all points in between. And the week after that, we’ll sign off with a Special Bonus Re-watch of the original series pilot, “The Cage”!

After that… who knows? When we find out what’s next, we’ll let you know, but I hear rumors that Dayton and I might be busy writing books or something….

 

[Deranged Nasat]

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What can I say about “Turnabout Intruder” that hasn’t already been muttered by its producers between slurred, drunken curses of shameful regret?

 

[David Mack]

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For those of you who have been taking this wild ride with me and Dayton Ward through the third season of the original Star Trek television series, over at the tor.com blog, we present our Season Three Wrap-Up.

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This is not quite the end of our travels, however. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding,” we end by arriving at our beginning and know the place for the first time. Which is a puffed-up way of saying that we’ll be back next week with a special bonus Star Trek Re-watch of the original series pilot, “The Cage.”

As usual, please leave all comments on the Tor.com article, to help me and Dayton stave off our editors’ inevitable question:

“Why did we hire you two blockheads in the first place?”

Damned if we know, Hoss.

 

[David Mack]

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As promised, here is the special bonus installment of the tor.com feature Star Trek Re-watch by yours truly and Dayton Ward. This week we turn our sights toward the original series pilot, “The Cage.”

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It’s a mixed bag of the sublime and the ludicrous, but one that both of us enjoyed tremendously despite its rough edges. Click on through to read Dayton’s hilarious recap and my in-depth analysis. Make sure to leave all comments on the tor.com article so that they might consider hiring me and Dayton to write something else for them. Someday. If we’re lucky and promise to stop peeing on the carpets.

That’s the end of the road for us on the Star Trek Re-watch trail, and it’s been a fun journey, everyone. Our thanks to all of you who have come along for the ride.

 

[ClayinCA]

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Great job, guys. (And FWIW, I too would like my very own Yeoman Colt to bring me coffee. And stuff.)