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Yep, even though I don't like TOS "City on the Edge of Forever" is one of those titles that turn on the part of my brain that gets all wistful and starry eyed...
...the more the pity that the episode is a lackluster time travel piece.
With a title like that I would have hoped for something...more Asimov perhaps? Something that truly sends the characters to the "Edge of Forever", perhaps into deep time to a point where matter starts to decay and galaxies blink out of existence. Something beautiful and frightening and haunting.
Not Kirk flirting with a rambling social worker in the 1930s.
...the more the pity that the episode is a lackluster time travel piece.
With a title like that I would have hoped for something...more Asimov perhaps? Something that truly sends the characters to the "Edge of Forever", perhaps into deep time to a point where matter starts to decay and galaxies blink out of existence. Something beautiful and frightening and haunting.
Not Kirk flirting with a rambling social worker in the 1930s.
Yep, even though I don't like TOS "City on the Edge of Forever" is one of those titles that turn on the part of my brain that gets all wistful and starry eyed...
...the more the pity that the episode is a lackluster time travel piece.
With a title like that I would have hoped for something...more Asimov perhaps? Something that truly sends the characters to the "Edge of Forever", perhaps into deep time to a point where matter starts to decay and galaxies blink out of existence. Something beautiful and frightening and haunting.
Not Kirk flirting with a rambling social worker in the 1930s.
I was beginning to think I'm the only one who doesn't think that much of this ep. My main reaction to it is (and always has been)---boredom. Nice to see someone else who isn't too impressed by COTEOF.
Silly it might be, but I find Spock's Brain more entertaining than COTEOF.
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky and Is There In Truth No Beauty? both strike me as rather pretentious titles.
I'm fond of the simplicity of The Last Outpost. It's just a shame that the episode lets the title down. Absolutely anything could happen at a last outpost of a long dead civilisation (or even one that is near extinct, aside from the titular place) but instead we got Bad Ferengi in a pretty boring story.
Also, consider this another vote for For the World is Hollow... - brilliant title.
Cheesey as it is, I can't help but love the puntastic Q-Who. I love how it sums up Q's actions - he sends the E-D far across the known galaxy to say "yoo-hoo" to something nasty. Always makes me giggle a little, even now.
Also, consider this another vote for For the World is Hollow... - brilliant title.
Cheesey as it is, I can't help but love the puntastic Q-Who. I love how it sums up Q's actions - he sends the E-D far across the known galaxy to say "yoo-hoo" to something nasty. Always makes me giggle a little, even now.
Is that what they were aiming for with that title?! Years later and I'm still learning new things.
Yeah that's the thing with evocative titles like "The World is Hollow", "Last Outpost", and "City on the Edge of Forever". If you hear them before seeing the episode, or even learning what it is about they can conjure up powerful images the episode has no chance to live up to, for various reasons.
And if you give an average piece of 60s/80s television a title that would be more suited to an Isaac Asimov or Jack Vance story then it can end up sounding a little bit pretentious, I agree.
Though to be fair "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" probably got as close to the images the title conjured up for me as it was possible within the format of Star Trek. It is a rather good episode imho, as far as TOS goes.
However, I don't want to fault them too much. As a hobby writer I know myself how you can start off with this beautiful, haunting image/phrase in your head and then when you write the story down and let it live it can end up depressingly mundane... that is probably doubly true for anything that has a any restrictions as screenwriting for 60s television must have had and with Roddenberry and his re-writes looming over you.
Yeah, that's a nice title for a pretty disappointing story. I remember the creators saying in Cinefantastique that they thought that story had a potential poignancy that they missed. One of the many missed opportunities in TNG's tumultuous first season.
Two DS9 episodes:
Far beyond the Stars: Sisko as Benny Russell, a black SciFi writer who had difficulties to sell his stories during a time where blacks had still fight for their rights. And besides, I could see some of the recurrent cast unmasked.
Treachery, Faith and the Great River: of course, as I´m a Vorta
. I liked, how they dealt with the problem of a defective clone and Odo´s interaction with Weyoun.
Far beyond the Stars: Sisko as Benny Russell, a black SciFi writer who had difficulties to sell his stories during a time where blacks had still fight for their rights. And besides, I could see some of the recurrent cast unmasked.
Treachery, Faith and the Great River: of course, as I´m a Vorta
. I liked, how they dealt with the problem of a defective clone and Odo´s interaction with Weyoun.
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