Miri - Based on Anything?

[A beaker full of death]

My emphasis on the second phrase. Roddenberry really did seem to conceive Trek, early on, as a way of doing a show like "The Twilight Zone" in a more practical way.

Space travel was key to the format less because he was interested in space exploration or the future per se than because he was seeking a format in which the continuing characters could encounter just about any conceivable situation or setting, at any period of history.

This somewhat naive notion that the "infinite universe" made anything and everything plausible served that end.

Unprecedentedly, I agree with every word in Dennis's post.

Save one.

 

[xortex]

I don't even have to guess, naive.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Give that xortex a kewpie doll!

 

[Captain Robert April]

What youse guys said.

Now, where the hell is that avatar from!?!

 

[A beaker full of death]

Home movies.

 

[xortex]

Signing off now. Goodnight everyone.

 

[A beaker full of death]

G'Night Xortex!!

 

[Forbin]

seriously, Beaker, I want that avatar as a poster.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'd like to see more of this "home movie"...

 

[A beaker full of death]

seriously, Beaker, I want that avatar as a poster.

By unbelievably popular demand....

 

[Forbin]

You're a beaker full of kindness!

 

[Captain Robert April]

Now, how 'bout a clip?

 

[estar9821]

Oh yes, I wish there were better female characters in TOS. It was the 60s...but wasn't the whole point looking ahead to the future, when they rightly predicted men and women and people of all races would be more equal?

Back to the topic of Miri: The episode reminded me of a book I read, "The Declaration" because of the theme of trying to prolong life. In the book, the drug succeeded in prolonging life for everyone, and the conflict was moral issues. It also made me think of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, because that's certainly how the children behaved.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Compared to a lot of 60's tv, Star Trek was practically a weekly feminist rant.

 

[I am not Spock]

Roddenberry's 'parallel Earths' pitch made a lot of business sense, really. They could reuse any old costume or prop lying around on the Paramount lot. And avoid making elaborate non human looking aliens most of the time.

Wonder what happened to that in the 24th century Treks? We rarely see parallel Earths after TOS (although, there are plenty of humanoid looking aliens)

 

[Captain Robert April]

Bigger budgets and more advanced techniques in prop making and set building. No need to write an episode that uses that old fort or the medieval castle set; now they can more easily build new alien stuff.

Of course, if you really want to reuse that old fort or medieval castle set, there's always the holodeck...