Shore Leave

[startrekrcks]

I love this episode especially when Kirk had a fight with Finnegan, that fight music was awesome. What do you think of the episode and why

 

[Admiral Shran]

I loved it because I thought Emily Banks was stunningly beautiful. Yes, I know, I'm a pig.

 

[Jeri]

It's my fave; I just love all the possibilities of a place like that and how it turns the cast around in different ways.

 

[Timo]

I like to worry about the mechanistic details, so my take on "turning the cast around" is that there was something psychoactive in the atmosphere of that place... Nothing harmful, just something to break the ice and set the mood.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Forbin]

I'd deeply fear what my mind would conjure up in that place!

 

[Jeri]

It could make for a pretty much unlimited series of Trek novels with all the characters.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I love everything about it. And i think McCoy is a hoot in it.

 

[startrekrcks]

especially with the two women and when Ruth turned up I think William Shatner's Kirk is a ladies man which I really enjoy what do you think of him when he is like that with ladies?

 

[Jeri]

I remember somebody years ago saying Jim would have liked Tasha Yar -- and that he had a predilection for "fine-boned blondes."

 

[scotpens]

I loved it because I thought Emily Banks was stunningly beautiful. Yes, I know, I'm a pig.

And Shirley Bonne (Ruth) wasn't exactly chopped liver either.

It's my fave; I just love all the possibilities of a place like that and how it turns the cast around in different ways.

The amusement park planet is sort of TOS's version of the holodeck, but what are the capabililties and limits of the technology? You can bring people from your past and characters from your imagination to life in the form of realistic androids, but can you wish whole environments into existence? Is it like the great Krell machine in Forbidden Planet, which could project matter anywhere on the planet, in any shape or form, by the power of pure thought? If that's the case, let's hope the keepers of the “Shore Leave” planet remembered about those nasty monsters from the Id!

 

[Jeri]

If they've been watching our "historical documents" blasted out into space during the radio and television broadcast age, perhaps they will. J/K. They seem to have a fail safe built in to the works.

 

[Forbin]

I couldn't go there with my wife, that's for sure. The parade of hot young chicks from my high school class, plus Elke Summer, Diana Rigg, Eliza Dushku and Mila Kunis, would be difficult to explain.

 

[scotpens]

If they've been watching our "historical documents" blasted out into space during the radio and television broadcast age, perhaps they will. J/K. They seem to have a fail safe built in to the works.

Yes, they do seem to have it rigged so that no one can actually get seriously injured or killed. Of course, that's what they said about Westworld.

I couldn't go there with my wife, that's for sure. The parade of hot young chicks from my high school class, plus Elke Summer, Diana Rigg, Eliza Dushku and Mila Kunis, would be difficult to explain.

I concur with your taste in women, but who's Mila Kunis?

Personally, I'd also conjure up Jacqueline Bisset and Angie Dickinson -- a bit younger than they are now, of course.

 

[Vonstadt]

I love the whole fight with Finnegan! His relationship with Kirk is an out and out riot! The music is GREAT! The fact Kirk gets to kick in the teeth (eventually) the guy who bullied him the academy is fantastic! Plus being Irish myself, I merely enjoyed the look and feel of all the fight scenes. The actor who played Finnegan was hilarious!

A fun little episode with a bit of a mystery that is now very cliche. I like this episode and will watch it whenever I catch it on.

Vons

 

[Neutral Zone]

Great episode, nice touch of fantasy for the crew and a break from the normal alien encounters, and for a change no one suffers a permanant death. Reminded me a little of Westworld and Futureworld films.

 

[T'Girl]

I concur with your taste in women, but who's Mila Kunis?

Mila Kunis's Star Trek tie-in is that she was in the 2007 move "After Sex" with
Zoe Saldaña (Uhura), and yes they had sex.

 

[sbk1234]

Liked it, but I have to admit the first time I was a little let down by the ending. I didn't think it lived up to the set up.

Still, great episode. Good humor. I am a bit surprised that AFAIK, Kirk's relationship with the real Finnegan was never really followed up on. In my mind, Finnegan ended up being a hard as nails Admiral, who would have been a great antagonist for Kirk. Kind of like Admiral Necheyev on TNG.

 

[Forbin]

I concur with your taste in women, but who's Mila Kunis?

Personally, I'd also conjure up Jacqueline Bisset and Angie Dickinson -- a bit younger than they are now, of course.

You may know Mila Kunis as Jackie from "That 70s Show." She also starred in "Max Payne" as the sister of the dead Russian hooker.

Here's some wallpapers of the adorable little minx:
http://www.skins.be/mila-kunis/wallpapers/

btw, I also agree with your choices!