Interesting. Did the overall location still look the same as when the episode was filmed?
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Interesting. Did the overall location still look the same as when the episode was filmed?
Eerily identical.
I've always wanted to visit that facility. Not open to the public, though, I'm assuming?
A Piece Of The Action and Patterns Of Force are for me, the two worst Star Trek episodes ever made.
They are quintessential Star Trek.
They are both okay shows, Patterns being better and there are worse to come in season three believe me!
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There was a Mel Brooks comedy about singing and dancing Nazis, if I remember correctly.
It was a comedy about producing a musical about Nazis as part of confidence scheme. Later made into a Broadway show and a musical comedy film. Considered a classic on film and stage.There was a Mel Brooks comedy about singing and dancing Nazis, if I remember correctly.
The year was 1983, and I was watching a lot of VH1. To Be or Not to Be was promoted with a music video in heavy rotation, called "The Hitler Rap"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mel+brooks+rap
One of the SS men in To Be or Not to Be was played by Christopher Lloyd, of Star Trek III Klingon fame. It was a better WW II story than we got in "Patterns of Force."
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Seeing Spock-o trying to disguise his pointed eyebrows and ears with an SS helmet was pretty ridiculous.
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To avoid confusion, THE PRODUCERS was the early Mel Brooks movie with the singing and dancing Nazis. "Springtime for Hitler," etc.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE was a different Mel Brooks comedy featuring Nazis. That one was a remake of a classic 1942 movie starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. (The original has much more teeth, IMHO, since it was actually filmed and released when the Nazis were still a genuine threat.)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE was a different Mel Brooks comedy featuring Nazis. That one was a remake of a classic 1942 movie starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. (The original has much more teeth, IMHO, since it was actually filmed and released when the Nazis were still a genuine threat.)
A great one. Spock's whole situation, very affecting, and it must be the worst thing he was ever put through. His mastery over the pain, after they've gotten across just how extreme it is. Kirk's position of having to slaughter a million people if no solution is found. Even the fake look of the creatures had a good line to help us accept it... about how they don't look quite "real", and their having come from so far away that physical laws might be different. That got my imagination going, as a kid. They were great at those little SF ideas to chew over, as covers for flaws.Anyone else out there in interspace like Operation : Annihilate?
We get a moment where a principle character may have injured another by making a stupid, irresponsible mistake-- the blinding of Spock. That I only picked up on and appreciated as an adult. They dropped in hints during season 1 that McCoy just might lean toward incompetence or irresponsibility... just as they played around later in with the idea that Kirk might be a bit carried away by his own authority.
The only real flaw is the title, which started out even worse: Operation: Destroy!
Don't forget "The Alternative Factor" and "The Way to Eden."
Thank you. I totally conflated the two movies in my head when I wrote that post. You sorted it out. And it's weird, because I do know both movies.
E-yep. Brooks' is of the opinion that you attack your enemies by making fun of them. In The Producers the confidence scheme is sell 1000% of a play, then produce something so terrible it closes at the intermission, because no investors will expect returns from a bomb, so they deliberately look for the most terrible and offensive script imaginable, the opening number of which goes a little something like this...
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