I "Kinda" Liked Way to Eden

[Warped9]

Maybe I missed something but who was Joanna and we didn't see her in any episodes did we (Or the movies).

Joanna was supposedly McCoy's daughter from his failed marriage and, no, she never appeared in any episode or film, but she has been in at least one if not more published novels...or at least referenced. I think she was also in John Byrne's Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor---a very good read.

 

[DoctorJones]

I agree, I 'kinda' liked it too.
The space hippies' music wasn't that bad either :P

 

[Timo]

This is also one of those episodes where the modernized visual effects were spot on - the flying VW Kleinbus couldn't have been hippier! Although there was something subliminally groovy about the original Tholian modification, too.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[tomalak301]

This is also one of those episodes where the modernized visual effects were spot on - the flying VW Kleinbus couldn't have been hippier! Although there was something subliminally groovy about the original Tholian modification, too.

Timo Saloniemi

That was one of the first things I noticed about this episode. Having not seen the Remastered version, this version looked like a Tholian Ship with nacelles. Wasn't too bad of a design actually.

 

[Warped9]

This is also one of those episodes where the modernized visual effects were spot on - the flying VW Kleinbus couldn't have been hippier!

Timo Saloniemi

Yeah, and thus reinforce the dig detractors have for the episode.

 

[ToddPence]

Joanna was mentioned in TAS "The Survivor".

 

[xortex]

You know, pairing her up with Kirk makes me trust women writers even less than men.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Well, to be technical, in the outline for "Joanna" (I'm not sure if Fontana wrote a full script draft or not), Kirk and Joanna do not "pair up" or "mess around." It merely says that they "warm" to each other, he finds her intelligent and attractive and they have dinner, where Joanna asks him a lot of questions about how her dad's been doing, why he won't talk to her, etc.

Now if there was a full draft written, maybe they did those things...

Sir Rhosis

 

[MrPointy]

I didn't like it much, though I guess it's enjoyable in context.

 

[Gary7]

I know a couple of people in their 20's who are intrigued by the 60's... the styles, the social focus, etc. At least one of them got into Star Trek via TNG, but later checked out TOS. "The Way To Eden" was a fascination to them, like a pseudo time capsule on the 60's. Others I've met find TOS curious from a nostalgia point of view, but hardly ever feel compelled to watch it. It's the later Star Trek series that catches their interest.

 

[tomalak301]

I know a couple of people in their 20's who are intrigued by the 60's... the styles, the social focus, etc. At least one of them got into Star Trek via TNG, but later checked out TOS. "The Way To Eden" was a fascination to them, like a pseudo time capsule on the 60's. Others I've met find TOS curious from a nostalgia point of view, but hardly ever feel compelled to watch it. It's the later Star Trek series that catches their interest.

Well, I'm 26 and one of the things I like about Star Trek was the various attitudes that were shown in that series being put into that context. For example, the Kirk/Uhura kiss, today doesn't seem like a big deal, but back then was almost taboo. Same thing with Way to Eden. Yeah the hippie thing might have gone a bit too far, but at the time, that was a mentality that was going on, at least here in the Bay Area. I think that's why I didn't mind it as much as other people did.