Pick 1 Episode, Add, Modify or Delete One Thing To Improve It

[Nerys Myk]

So you change the skin color in the process? Racial reassignment surgeries?

If they can make a human look like a Romulan or Klingon, I think making an Indian into a Anglo-Saxon should be a breeze.

 

[Maurice]

But why go that far? It's just silly. And, lest we forgot, Khan was basically white looking in TWOK.

 

[Nerys Myk]

But why go that far? It's just silly. And, lest we forgot, Khan was basically white looking in TWOK.

Fans don't like simple. They need boxes to tick and overly complex explanations. ( And then they complain about them )

 

[Kor]

As I said above, I'm OK with absolutely no explanation at all. The notion of plastic surgery comes from one of the IDW comics.

Kor

 

[FormerLurker]

But why go that far? It's just silly. And, lest we forgot, Khan was basically white looking in TWOK.

People keep saying this. Take someone dark-complected and keep them out of the sun for fifteen years. I think they'll pale some.

 

[Nerys Myk]

People keep saying this. Take someone dark-complected and keep them out of the sun for fifteen years. I think they'll pale some.

I don't think Montalban was that much of a method actor.

 

[Samuel]

or Khan having lighter complexion in TWOK than in "Space Seed."

Kor

I blame all those years he spent on the island..

 

[Maurice]

I blame the brown greasepaint they laid on him with a trowel.

 

[johnnybear]

IDW did a prequel comic that depicted Khan being physically changed from his TOS self into the form in which he appeared in ST:ID. IMO, it should have just been left a mystery. In the movie itself he made a vague hand-wavy statement about how the whole "John Harrison" persona was a smokescreen. No details were necessary, just like no details were ever necessary about the difference in Klingon appearance over the years, or Khan having lighter complexion in TWOK than in "Space Seed."

Kor

Well the John Harrison bit and the fact that Kirk wasn't the one who found Khan's sleeper ship mean nothing to me to be honest but Khan's lighter skin in WOK could be because he'd been living on Ceti Alpha V for all those years!
JB

 

[FormerLurker]

Johnny, what did I say four posts ago? It was always thus.

 

[Talos IV]

In "The Conscience of the King," replace the spray bottle used to poison Lt. Riley with a quickly-dissolving tablet.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I dunno about that one...by using something readily available in engineering, there's room for doubt as to how it wound up in Riley's drink. That tablet better run through his system and out lightning fast, leaving no trace of its nature.

 

[Green]

I think his point was the "off the shelf" 1966 spray bottle kind of blows the "centuries in the future" illusion.

 

[Captain Brodry]

In "Spock's Brain" (I know, I know), lose the idea that the brain has to be removed and replace it with Spock being abducted and hooked into the Eymorg compound controlling system so his brain could run it (I actually thought the description of what Spock's brain was doing was pretty clever).

This would eliminate the brain-restoration scene, as well as the preposterous remote-controlled Spock bit. This hardly saves the episode, but it's something.

Guess we may have to change the title while we're at it.

I think they were trying to play up the horrific aspect of Spock's brain being surgically removed while his body was left to die. The thieves didn't count on his incredible Vulcan physical strength to keep his body alive while brainless. Also, it having a remote-controlled Spock afforded Kirk those moments when he could display those pained expressions at seeing what had been done to his friend. I wonder, did the horrific aspect play out well in the sixties, or did it seem campy then too?

 

[Captain Brodry]

I'm surprised that mirror Spock didn't immediately notice that the passive, subdued Kirk he beamed up wasn't the mirror Kirk.

Why would he have taken that chance? When Kirk plays back Mirror Kirk's bio, it paints him as a pretty ill-tempered psychopath. Mirror Spock also knows that Mirror Kirk has a way of making his enemies disappear.

 

[Captain Brodry]

I would have made Mirror, Mirror a two-parter. The action happens too quickly and seems forced with too many "now, I gotcha" moments (Mirror Spock tries to foil the plan and is knocked out, Mirror Sulu comes in to finish the job and gets knocked out, McCoy stays to heal Mirror Spock but then Mirror Spock rapes McCoy's mind to find out where the others are, Moreau asks to go with and then pulls a weapon but Uhura quickly subdues her, Mirror Spock comes back again with mind-raped McCoy to add a little more suspense, Kirk takes the time to give his speech, and all's well that ends well). The episode needed more time to be developed into a really good story. A sub-plot of the Mirror crew on the Prime Enterprise temporarily taking over that ship might have added some different action and given us a chance to experience the Mirror versions of Kirk, McCoy, Uhura, and Scotty in more detail. Maybe have it end with Mirror Spock disregarding Kirk's advice about reforming the Empire as an interesting way of presenting a moral relativist argument. After all, why should the Terran Empire be exempt from the Prime Directive?

 

[Green]

That counts as one change?

 

[Captain Brodry]

That counts as one change?

Make it a two-parter episode: one change. I just elaborated on it a bit.

 

[Talos IV]

I think his point was the "off the shelf" 1966 spray bottle kind of blows the "centuries in the future" illusion.

Yes. That's what I meant.

Instead of that spray bottle, maybe a vial with a dropper or something like it? That way they could keep McCoy's subsequent line about Tetra-lubisol ("a milky substance. Someone could have gotten careless.")

 

[Pauln6]

I would have made Mirror, Mirror a two-parter. The action happens too quickly and seems forced with too many "now, I gotcha" moments (Mirror Spock tries to foil the plan and is knocked out, Mirror Sulu comes in to finish the job and gets knocked out, McCoy stays to heal Mirror Spock but then Mirror Spock rapes McCoy's mind to find out where the others are, Moreau asks to go with and then pulls a weapon but Uhura quickly subdues her, Mirror Spock comes back again with mind-raped McCoy to add a little more suspense, Kirk takes the time to give his speech, and all's well that ends well). The episode needed more time to be developed into a really good story. A sub-plot of the Mirror crew on the Prime Enterprise temporarily taking over that ship might have added some different action and given us a chance to experience the Mirror versions of Kirk, McCoy, Uhura, and Scotty in more detail. Maybe have it end with Mirror Spock disregarding Kirk's advice about reforming the Empire as an interesting way of presenting a moral relativist argument. After all, why should the Terran Empire be exempt from the Prime Directive?

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