I'll give this a 9! Solid episode indeed!
JB
JB
Episode of the Week : This Side of Paradise
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You nailed it with regard to Shatner in this episode. Spot-on assessment; "Shatner is on fire in this episode".
Love that entire sequence, starting with Kirk's "No...", as his face goes from dark to light when he flips some switch on the transporter console. Didn't he have some kind of club or piece of pipe in his hand when he was taunting Spock? "Aroused, Mr. Spock's great physical strength could kill, but it's a risk I'll have to take."
That line is heard in the infamous K/S slash audio clip parody "Love Trek" from at least 12 years ago.
Jill Ireland really looks ahead of her time, almost. Spock didn't always get the girl, but when he did, they were stunners, mostly. Which sort of made me believe that she was mostly after Spock as one of those "wanting what you can't have" things. But with both of them being under the influence of the spores, it's hard to know how satisfying she thought it was not having Spock acting on it under his own volition. Yet, if any woman could've so affected him using her own charms, she was the one. Unfortunately, the only good part about their hitting it off was when they both went back to normal. I would've liked to have seen more of that interaction, I liked the way they acted out their last scene, together. And I know we're supposed to be rocked by Kirk enraging Spock and their fight in the transporter room, but the whole thing felt very "staged," to me. Elias Sandoval has that cool announcer voice, though. I thought his stilted acting worked well with his predicament, being under the spore's influence. Overall, though, I find this particular episode to be very thin ... I'm sorry to say.
Aside from cringing at Spock hanging from the tree (in a jumpsuit) I think this episode is great.
I think Jill Ireland was a great match for Spock. Better than that vacuous Droxine anyway.
Spock was pretty mean to her at first. I'm not sure why. Maybe his engagement to T'Pring was hanging over his head.
I think Jill Ireland was a great match for Spock. Better than that vacuous Droxine anyway.
Spock was pretty mean to her at first. I'm not sure why. Maybe his engagement to T'Pring was hanging over his head.
Now that I think about it...why DID Spock get a jumpsuit and the rest of the crew stayed in uniform???
... Exactly!
Was it to imply they had sex? Because Spock had undressed. Asking not saying.
Or maybe they had limited jumpsuits and Spock was specialler than the rest of the crew. LOL.
The obvious downside is that the spores rob people of all ambition, turning them into lotus-eaters. Of course, you could cure people of their diseases and health problems by exposing them to the spores, then get them pissed off enough to shake off the spore-induced passivity. Maybe by yelling a bunch of "yo' momma" insults at them.
Well, now that you mention it . . .
That, but also the oblique suggestion that they hooked up, giving Spock the occasion to change clothes.
Pon Farr came early this year! lol
Well, a few staff in environment suits could run the place and let everyone with a bad injury or disease, like Bones in Touched the Sky, spend a few months in a happy passive state and then when they're cured just bring them into the sealed area away from the spores and slap them a few times and all better. Really, I don't see a downside. Yo mammas as appropriate, maybe tell them their sport team sucks, and tell them irs wants to audit them, them spores will be dead fast.
You know, perhaps they did try and exploit this phenomenon, but found it logistically impractical to haul patients all the way to Omicron Ceti and back, and instead decided to collect and concentrate the supposed key ingredients: the spores and the radiation. In the process, they ended up upsetting some sort of an ecological or physical balance and destroyed the spores for good, disturbed the radiation flux irrevocably, or both.
Wisened by this, they decided to outsource to more experienced operators when they next ran into a comparable phenomenon - hence ST:Insurrection.
Timo Saloniemi
Wisened by this, they decided to outsource to more experienced operators when they next ran into a comparable phenomenon - hence ST:Insurrection.
Timo Saloniemi
I like this episode, but I don't watch it often because it's kinda sad at the end.
However, I find that there's so much to like.
Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley are *ALL* on fire in this episode, to paraphrase what sosmicin said.
Spock is the standout. Nimoy lets loose and you can see he had a lot of fun giving Spock some freedom as it's quite an infectious fun that Spock is having. It rubs off on the audience.
Shatner and Kelley are just as good.
"Would you like to see how fast I could put you in a hospital?"
When I think of this episode and Shatner, I think of Kirk looking at his medals, smiling.
However, I find that there's so much to like.
Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley are *ALL* on fire in this episode, to paraphrase what sosmicin said.
Spock is the standout. Nimoy lets loose and you can see he had a lot of fun giving Spock some freedom as it's quite an infectious fun that Spock is having. It rubs off on the audience.
Shatner and Kelley are just as good.
"Would you like to see how fast I could put you in a hospital?"
When I think of this episode and Shatner, I think of Kirk looking at his medals, smiling.
Spock kept the jumpsuit, his brainless body later wears it again in Spock's Brain.
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