Requiem for Methuselah
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Yeah, I've said before I thought Louise Sorel was not the best casting. I've liked her in other stuff and she was fine playing Rayna's sweet and sensitive side, but the intellectual brilliance never really came across to me.
One thing preventing me from agreeing with Timo is that it's just too obvious to me that the writers' intention was that Kirk was heartbroken, and Spock's mind meld was to make him forget Rayna.
Requiem for Methuselah is so over the top, it's one of my most favourite shows, in the STAR TREK franchise. I love Flint's superhero outfit, complete with cape. One look at it and you just know this episode's going for broke. Unintentionally funny, though, is the overhead shot, whilst Rayna and Kirk play pool. It's so frigging wobbly, with its jumping up and down, that it gives the impression that the cameraman's perch is very precarious, indeed. I trying to picture his predicament and it always makes me chuckle.
Rayna's a charmer, I love how Lady-like she is, at all times. It's very endearing, to me, though I hate her wig with a passion. Speaking of passion ... Kirk's tirade about how "Human" she's become, thanks to his activating her emotions with his machismo is nuts. "... Down to the last red blood cell ... she's HUMAN!!!" Come off it, Jim ... she's an assembly-line android! But he don't care, she's alive ... ALIVE!!! And this thieving bastard is going to try to snag her off Flint's showroom floor and live out his Earthly pleasures with her onboard Enterprise.
The ass-kicking that follows is just perfect ... the cherry on top! This show has got it all and it's unabashedly uninhibited in its desire to entertain. It knows it's just a TV show and it won't be denied! Screw logic and any attempt at realism. It even throws immortality in the pot just to spice up Flint's colourful persona, as if he even needed it. They don't make 'em like this, anymore. And it's a damn shame and I mean that. It takes its own limitations, like a confined set, and squeezes every last drop of entertainment value out of it, that it can. This story has it all ...
Rayna's a charmer, I love how Lady-like she is, at all times. It's very endearing, to me, though I hate her wig with a passion. Speaking of passion ... Kirk's tirade about how "Human" she's become, thanks to his activating her emotions with his machismo is nuts. "... Down to the last red blood cell ... she's HUMAN!!!" Come off it, Jim ... she's an assembly-line android! But he don't care, she's alive ... ALIVE!!! And this thieving bastard is going to try to snag her off Flint's showroom floor and live out his Earthly pleasures with her onboard Enterprise.
The ass-kicking that follows is just perfect ... the cherry on top! This show has got it all and it's unabashedly uninhibited in its desire to entertain. It knows it's just a TV show and it won't be denied! Screw logic and any attempt at realism. It even throws immortality in the pot just to spice up Flint's colourful persona, as if he even needed it. They don't make 'em like this, anymore. And it's a damn shame and I mean that. It takes its own limitations, like a confined set, and squeezes every last drop of entertainment value out of it, that it can. This story has it all ...
Exactly. Flint's lived that long but still con't figure out women?
This is the Cliffs notes version.
On the right ... on the parquet floor ... is that a roach, or something? What is that?
...exactly how the script and broadcast episode intended it to be. Kirk caps it all off by referring to himself as a "lonely man"--supporting his fascination with / love for Rayna. He loves the 701, but that would not fill his need for the woman of his life.
I don't see the big deal. It just looks like your standard Microsoft technical manual. Which ALWAYS is missing vital information.
For example: What does the woman really mean when she says "Don't worry about it. I'm fine."
None of the above
WORRY ABOUT IT!!!! SHE'S NOT FINE!!!!!
Absolutely do NOT just do whatever you want. Do what SHE wants.
"If I have to explain it to you, then you obviously don't really care about me."
"My God...What have I done...AHHHH!!!"
I'm with Timo that Kirk was manipulating events to get to the objective. Starship Captains get to that appointment by hook and by crook, when the circumstance calls for a dynamic approach, IMO.
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