Miri's Planet?
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Possibly. jst depends on the author.
BTW, Miri's planet was probably one of the lamest ideas in all of Star Trek. Even worse than Omega Glory's planet.
BTW, Miri's planet was probably one of the lamest ideas in all of Star Trek. Even worse than Omega Glory's planet.
It's time like these (Miri's Planet, Omega IV) that I have no choice but to turn to The Preservers as some sort of desperate attempt to make things all right. LOL
It's worse than that; he's dead, Jim... Er, I mean even the Preservers can't be used to explain away this one. Transplanted humans recreating similar cultures, mmmmmm, maybe, but duplicate tectonic plates resulting in exact recreations of our land masses? No, you'll need something like a bloody "Q" pulling a "divergent" Earth and solar system from an alternate time-line to write off this one.
Sincerely,
Bill
Sincerely,
Bill
By Cold War, I think they meant "Ice Age."
I will watch Spock's Brain before I watch this episode. When I was a kid and began watching Star Trek I used to like this episode but as I have gotten older this episode hasn't aged well. I find the duplicate earth pretty lame and the kids and their "bonk bonk" crapola pretty annoying.
Back in the day, there was still some talk about doing TOS in a semi-serialized manner: the time travel of "Naked Time" might have dovetailed directly into "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and so forth. If TOS really had been written in this manner, with sequels of sorts, perhaps the Duplicate Earth concept could have been explored more in a separate episode - possibly in one where a Triplicate Earth is found.
"Omega Glory" probably doesn't have to involve entire civilizations from old Earth traveling through space and time to take over Omega IV and continue their war there. It would suffice for one lunatic time traveler to go there, as single meddlers have been shown to have considerable influence over primitive populations in episodes such as "Patterns of Force" or "Bread and Circuses"...
Timo Saloniemi
"Omega Glory" probably doesn't have to involve entire civilizations from old Earth traveling through space and time to take over Omega IV and continue their war there. It would suffice for one lunatic time traveler to go there, as single meddlers have been shown to have considerable influence over primitive populations in episodes such as "Patterns of Force" or "Bread and Circuses"...
Timo Saloniemi
I heard the idea was to have the one episode lead to the other, but not that there was talk of doing it semi-serialized. What's your source for that assertion?
That'll be the day when I make an "assertion" about the backstage goings and comings of Star Trek; I really know zip about them. But "episode leading to another" is what I meant by "semi-serialized", as opposed to actually serialized through entire seasons.
I think I heard the bit about "Naked Time"/"T is Y" back when the intended, multi-stage connection between "Conspiracy", "The Neutral Zone" and "Q Who?" was first being discussed. TOS never did any connections past the two Mudd episodes, even if the later episodes name-dropped some early bits. Alas.
Timo Saloniemi
I think I heard the bit about "Naked Time"/"T is Y" back when the intended, multi-stage connection between "Conspiracy", "The Neutral Zone" and "Q Who?" was first being discussed. TOS never did any connections past the two Mudd episodes, even if the later episodes name-dropped some early bits. Alas.
Timo Saloniemi
I always liked "Miri" - the "another Earth" thing was just one of those "Gosh, wow, cool!" little skiffy frissons; I was already buying the notion of a spaceship full of Navy boys zipping around the cosmos at FTL speeds, after all.
I'll take "Miri" over "The Omega Glory" any day. With "Miri" I simply forget the duplicate Earth aspect and look at the main story, the adults died out leaving only the kids.
With "The Omega Glory" it's just bad all the way around. I can buy a captain going rogue but I can't separate the rest of the idiocy the was I can with "Miri".
With "The Omega Glory" it's just bad all the way around. I can buy a captain going rogue but I can't separate the rest of the idiocy the was I can with "Miri".
They're both good in their crazy way. What happens in Trek is so unlikely to be anything like life in the 23rd c., that to expect realism (a la Arthur C. Clarke's) is hopeless. Miri is "the one with the crazy kids." Omega is "the American flag one." Chee-z, fun, dramatic. I love it. Gotta go get some Trek on. Thanks for the inspiration.
I compartmentalize Classic Trek a lot as
Planet of the __________________
Nazis
Yankees
Gangsters
Children
and so on... Works for a lot of episodes, and is very helpful when talking about something with the non-Trek fan members of our cast.
Planet of the __________________
Nazis
Yankees
Gangsters
Children
and so on... Works for a lot of episodes, and is very helpful when talking about something with the non-Trek fan members of our cast.
It was supposed to be, but they kinda screwed up the dating for that for it to work. You would have to fan-wave that the crews left in the 2050s, then hit a wormhole to the 1050s or earlier on their new planet.
The thing is, the “duplicate Earth” gimmick is completely unnecessary to the story; in fact, it’s never mentioned again after the pre-credit teaser. It was just a cheap hook to keep viewers tuned in by ending the teaser on a “WTF??” note.
Your point is?
It is a teaser, after all.
It is a teaser, after all.
So, in other words, there was not, in fact, "talk about doing TOS in a semi-serialized manner".
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