List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched
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Short Treks: "The Trouble with Edward."
I have drawn some conclusions:
1. They really should have called in David Gerrold at least as a consultant.
2. It seems to be playing very fast and loose with conservation of mass -- what exactly are the tribbles eating, that allows them to breed at a rate several hundred times what was previously established, and pack the ship until the hull cracks?
3. The non-sequiturs and discontinuities (particularly about tribbles reproducing slowly and being delicate) can best be explained by noting that Edward Larkin is unreliable. In the sense of an unreliable narrator, although he's not the narrator.
I have drawn some conclusions:
1. They really should have called in David Gerrold at least as a consultant.
2. It seems to be playing very fast and loose with conservation of mass -- what exactly are the tribbles eating, that allows them to breed at a rate several hundred times what was previously established, and pack the ship until the hull cracks?
3. The non-sequiturs and discontinuities (particularly about tribbles reproducing slowly and being delicate) can best be explained by noting that Edward Larkin is unreliable. In the sense of an unreliable narrator, although he's not the narrator.
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ENT: Babel One
There should have been a season 5, damnit!
There should have been a season 5, damnit!
Errand of Mercy and despite how much I love the episode and the actors involved -- the fact that Kirk and Spock are trying to push complete and utter pacifists into a guerrilla war against an ruthless adversary literally hundreds of years more advanced than they are who has already threatened to kill a thousand organians for every Klingon that is killed is beyond ridiculous and is my opinion immoral. And of course the fact that since the organians have no modern Communications the only one place on the planet where the Rebellion could take place is the one city that they happened to land in. So they kill a few Klingons and blow up a few facilities and the Klingons exterminate that Village utterly and then they can still use the rest of the planet as an arms Depot if that was their intention. I guess the episode had to have an action angle.
DS9: "The Adversary" - Star Trek's take on The Thing was OK, but there was an awful lot of stupid going on to pad this ep out to 44 minutes. I won't go into the stupid here as this isn't a review thread, but I will point out that Sisko has never looked such a fox than in his dress uniform with hair and beard! 
Isn't that the point though; that the Federation (USA) is no better than the Klingons (USSR) ?
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I didn't take it that way. Not exactly. I mean, the Klingons were there to conquer and subjugate. The Federation was there to help people they viewed as defenseless.
The Organians enforce a peace in the end. The Klingons are unhappy because they don't get to partake in a "glorious" battle, but Kirk is also perterbed. Why? Because he likes war? I don't think so. I think that, one, he chafes at the idea of godlike beings laying down rules for mere mortals. What gives them the moral right to do so? And, two, I don't think he relishes the idea of a cold war full of subterfuge, treachery, and gray (at best) moral quandaries - a simple straight on "may the best man win" fight would be greatly preferable.
I've always taken the episode as an allegory for the WW2 generation having to deal with a cold war caused by the existence of nuclear weapons. The Organians are a (seemingly benevolent) version of The Bomb in this scenario. You have a type of peace, but potentially at a very high price.
Far Beyond the Stars (DS9). This is probably my favorite DS9 episode.
I agree. That is why my analysis of the episode involves the Enterprise carrying some sort of "Instant starbase" which could be deployed within minutes to defend the system from the Klingons, once the Organians gave their permission. That might seem technologically implausible, but at least it doesn't make the Federation, Starfleet, and Kirk so willing to "fight to the last Organian" to hamper the Klingon invasion of the Federation.
Short Treks: "Ask Not."
Yes, I know, it's a rehash of act 5 of TNG: "Coming of Age." But it's a brilliant rehash, possibly the best on the DVD.
And to think that both episodes grew out of a one line in TOS: "Bread and Circuses," almost throwaway, about Merik's backstory.
Yes, I know, it's a rehash of act 5 of TNG: "Coming of Age." But it's a brilliant rehash, possibly the best on the DVD.
And to think that both episodes grew out of a one line in TOS: "Bread and Circuses," almost throwaway, about Merik's backstory.
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