A mashup of TOS, Back to the Future, and Antman's quantum everything. Last three things I watched this week.
Forbiden Planet Movie, Thoughts and Questions on there Universe.
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TOS's first season was 30 episodes (that was the TV standard up to that point in 1966)
In 1967 most TV series shifted productions to make 26 episodes a season; and that paradigm continued up until the late '80s when some series full season orders were 22, 24 or 26 episodes.
As far as TNG is concerned the only short season was season 2, and that was because of the writer's strike in 1988.
All the rest of the Berman 24th century series seasons were usually 26 episodes, with the exceptions of their first seasons because in both cases they launched in January.
ENT was also designed as a 26 episode per season series, but as production went along Scott Bakula balked at that after the second season, so season 3 was 24 episodes; and season 4 was 22 episodes in length
Too bad. They could have used the last four episodes (of 26) to build up to a decent finale.
(Not to pin too much blame. TNG and DS 9 were the only ones to have a decent, proper, planned, finale.)
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As a matter of fact, I've never seen that show. It really does sound stupid on its face so I am not really curious and perfectly ok not knowing about it for the rest of my days...The kids show from the 70s with the guy in a gorilla suit??
Being a linguist may have helped him survive the brain boost. You see several philologists in sci-fi...Out Of The Silent Planet...
The self destruct could mean they had enemies, or that one of their number knew what horrors awaited.
All we saw at the end was a flash of light...
Perhaps Morbius became one with the machine in dying. The doctor also dying might actually have helped the self destruct, as the death of Morbius also helped serve as a negative control?
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Possibly, then again he only got a partial brain boost, not a complete one like his captain or later the doctor.
TNG and Voyager has finales that stood on their own, referencing material from the whole series, there wasn’t a proper buildup in the episodes right preceding them.
What I mean is that Ent’s finale sucks on its own and the number of episodes is not the issue!
if it was a planned feature one would imagine it to blow up only the machine, not the whole planet...seems a bit overkill!
possibly.
About finales: Ds9's is the only one that's fully integrated into the series, closing up a few plotlines that were going on, IE, the Dominion war, the Pah-wraiths attempt to take power, plus minor ones like Julian and Ezri, Sisko's destiny, Worf, O'Brien, Odo, and Kira... Most of the plots had been going on for at least half a season... That's PLANNING!!! Nothing like that in any of the other series, not even TNG, although TNG would be the second-best in that respect.
You'd think they'd be like a dozen different safety features to prevent that from happening. The Krell were supposed to be wise and super-intelligent, not reckless and stupid.
There probably were, but here they did that intentionally.
Why have a self destruct? Why not?? Never mentioned, but I doubt the Krell were the only species in the galaxy at the time, even if the Krell were 1000's of years ahead of them technology wise, Its a sensible precaution, like the Self Destruct on Za Ha Duum in B5. Don't want otheres to come an ran sack the place!
IOW, burn the village in order to save it... that makes sense... not in the slightest.
It would be like putting a huge charge of c4 under your house and make it go boom in case of a home invasion...Who would do that?
Russia in WW2?
I figure Morbius isn't as knowledgeable about the Krell as he imagines himself to be. The Krell may have planned a first step of non-instrumentality but planned further to go full non-physicality becoming some kind of creatures of pure thought and energy. The self destruct was just the clean up device after they transitioned to a higher plane of existence.
I don't know if you could claim the Krell where that forward thinking at that point in their development. They designed a machine that tapped into their own subconscious and released hidden desires and fears the Krell themselves at the time didn't realize still existed. If they were that forward thinking you would think they would have installed a kill switch that would disable the device once the subconscious carnage started. But no, per Morbius' description - their society was destroyed in a single night of absolute carnage, and the Krell never understood how or why it was occurring.
They probably didn’t realize it was occurring at all, to be fair.
They just didn't think of it. They weren't gods or all knowing in spite of Morbius's opinion they were some moral paragons. Sort of the point of the film. Hubris breeds nemesis.
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Forbidden Planets.
