Episode of the Week : Spock's Brain

[TREK_GOD_1]

The glaciated planet and surface details on the studio set are enough to give this a passing grade of 6 (even thought the poll closed yesterday). TOS made steady FX and art direction improvements as it went along, and this was a great example of the show using cleaner FX that did not age as fast as other work..

 

[ZapBrannigan]

The glaciated planet and surface details on the studio set are enough to give this a passing grade of 6 (even thought the poll closed yesterday). TOS made steady FX and art direction improvements as it went along, and this was a great example of the show using cleaner FX that did not age as fast as other work..

Are you referring to the original version or the CBS Digital? CBS added some significant scene extensions to the planet surface.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Are you referring to the original version or the CBS Digital? CBS added some significant scene extensions to the planet surface.

I mean the original version--

 

[Timo]

The TOS-R-augmented establishing shot at beam-down was gorgeous, but the background mountains and glaciers were only added to that single shot. They wouldn't have hurt the rest of the planetside action, but apparently that would have been too expensive (and the set did all right there with "faraway" papier-mache mountains of its own, in certain shots).

Which all left me wanting of something similar to the "Enemy Within" sky matte/light job, with the high altitude cloud impression to enhance the feeling of bitter, freezing cold. The shade of uniform blue chosen just didn't work for me, is all.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[The Old Mixer]

6) We get one of the best McCoy scenes ever, where he's transformed by this unimaginable knowledge from the Teacher. It's a shame that when a questionable premise is sold so well by actors, with total commitment, that so few fans seem to notice or appreciate it. McCoy's desperation is well played...

I always liked that part myself. Kelley really sold it. "A child could do it...a child...."

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

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[Drone]

Well, we got one clip here for illustrative purposes, but I guess off the top, I wouldn't think that their vocal stylings in Plato would have been at all objectionable to either, given their real world efforts in that realm ( I gather Nimoy rather more than Shatner). I'm sure there have been any number of threads regarding that subject over time, but I don't think I've ever run across any of them in my relative short tenure here. Anyone willing to point the way, as I would find commentary about their relative abilities, material choices, and critical reception quite interesting to read about amongst forum members, as opposed to just getting Wikipedia's take.

 

[UnknownSample]

Kirk imitating a horse in 'Plato's Misguided Children' even made lobotomized Spock cringe.

Uh huh. As I said, you're supposed to cringe. They're being through demeaning crap, for no reason other than the fact that the "Platonians" are able to do it and get away with it, and it's supposed to be disturbing.

 

[Push The Button]

Uh huh. As I said, you're supposed to cringe. They're being through demeaning crap, for no reason other than the fact that the "Platonians" are able to do it and get away with it, and it's supposed to be disturbing.

Imagine what MIrror-Kirk would have done to Parmen and the Platonians afterward, I don't think the word cringe would be sufficient.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

3 here. Would have been lower except that the sheer wretchedness of it ended up giving it some "so bad it's good" bonus points.

 

[johnnybear]

Why did McCoy never pronounce his Ds? Southern linquistics I guess! "Hers is the mind of a chile!"
JB