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The two elder sons died between episodes?![]()
The two elder sons died between episodes?![]()
Is that even relevant?They show up in novels and stuff.
Is that even relevant?
I think most of Voyager's holodeck episodes are fine with the exception of the two "Irish village" ones which are really stupid!!!
Plus TOS is not even internally consistent about that. First Spock says that "an ancestor" of his (or words to that effect) was human, then something different that seems to imply that his parents are dead and then unexpectedly his parents show up. And let's not talk about Kirk's vanishing brother...
I think most of Voyager's holodeck episodes are fine with the exception of the two "Irish village" ones which are really stupid!!!
Well, Heroes and Demons never did anything for me, either.
The only defenses for TOS might be:
(a) the show was just starting out and finding its feet - even the un-aired pilot had Spock emoting with devil grins over something as boring as wind passing through a flower that made a noise in turn to being blown on by said wind
(b) 1960s TV usually had self-contained installments that did not have later episodes reflecting or referencing earlier ones (though season 3 did have a couple examples of this, such as "Turnabout Intruder")///
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CHEKOV: You know this man, Captain?
KIRK: Oh, do I know him. Harcourt Fenton Mudd, thief
MUDD: Come now.
KIRK: Swindler and con man
MUDD: Entrepreneur.
KIRK: Liar and rogue.
MUDD: Did I leave you with that impression?
KIRK: He belongs in jail, which is where I thought I left you, Mudd.
KIRK: All right, Harry, explain. How did you get here? We left you in custody after that affair on the Rigel mining planet.
KIRK: What happened to your ship?
ROJAN: There is an energy barrier at the rim of your galaxy.
KIRK: Yes, I know. We've been there.
KIRK: On Eminiar Seven, you were able to trick the guard by a Vulcan mind probe.
SPOCK: Yes, I recall, Captain. I led him to believe we had escaped.
CHEKOV: Under terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, one side or the other must prove it can develop the planet most efficiently.
KOLOTH: Let me assure you that my intentions are peaceful. As I've already told Mister Lurry, the purpose of my presence is to invoke shore leave rights.
KIRK: Shore leave?
KOLOTH: Captain, we Klingons are not as luxury-minded as you Earthers. We do not equip our ships with, how shall I say it, non-essentials. (makes an hour-glass gesture with his hands)
KORAX: We have been in space for five months. What we choose as recreation is our own business.
KOLOTH: I might also add that under terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, you cannot refuse us.
KIRK: So, they've broken the treaty.
SCOTT: Not necessarily, Captain. They have as much right to scientific missions here as we have.
KIRK: Research is not the Klingon way.
SCOTT: True, but since this is a hands-off planet, how are you going to prove they're doing otherwise?
KANG: For three years, the Federation and the Klingon Empire have been at peace. A treaty we have honoured to the letter.
STOCKER: Keep trying to raise the Romulans.:
UHURA: I'm trying, Commodore.
STOCKER: If I could talk to them, explain to them why we violated the Neutral Zone.
UHURA: The Romulans are notorious for not listening to explanations.
SULU: Lieutenant Uhura is right, sir. We've tangled with them before.
SPOCK: Fascinating. What maneuver did we use to defeat the Romulan vessel near Tau Ceti?
KIRK 1: Very good, Spock. The Cochrane deceleration.
KIRK 2: Spock, you know the Cochrane deceleration's a classic battle maneuver. Every Starship Captain knows that.
KIRK: We've got to figure this out and devise a defence against it. Is it possible that the rocks have life?
SULU: You remember on Janus Six, the silicon creatures
MCCOY: But our instruments recorded that. They were life forms. They registered as life forms.
JANICE: Spock, when I was caught in the interspace of the Tholian Sector, you risked your life and the Enterprise to get me back. Help me get back now. When the Vians of Minara demanded that we let Bones die, we didn't permit it.
I think she was Mrs. Columbo from an alternate reality though.
Didn’t she fall victim in one of Falk’s last role?
I never found a pattern to episodes I do not like. There are of course some I do not like at all, but they seem more or less random to me. I do not like the Irish-village-holodeck-episodes of VOY, I do not like quite a few episodes of the first two seasons of TNG or the first of ENT or DS9.
Albeit, one thing comes to mind: Recycled plots... for example there are DS9 (Shadowplay) and ENT (Oasis) episodes featuring a sole survivor creating his folks via holo tech. That really annoyed me.
Tos Friday's child and TNG The Wounded
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