Star Trek-RM: Requiem for Methusaleh… Grading/Discussion

[Phillip Culley]

...the correction of "Reena" to Rayna in the Louise Sorel credit, so the name finally (after 39 years!) matches the "Rayna" signs posted by the earlier versions of her in the episode itself.

How strange - they corrected this, however a while back they retained the 'Gumato' credit from A Private Little War. Did they clear up the 'Scpipt Supervisor' error from far too many credits?

 

[Kryton]

The Gumato: Sponsored by Wrigley's. Try our pleasure planet as well.

 

[gottacook]

I just saw a week-delayed rebroadcast of "The Way to Eden" on a Baltimore station, which I likely won't be able to pull in over the air after February. Noticed that the reversed image of Kirk as he watches Sevrin grab & eat the poisoned fruit is still reversed, with insignia on wrong side of uniform. Wonder why they didn't correct that? Would have been easy - perhaps it was left in place deliberately?

 

[cooleddie74]

One of my five favorite Season 3 episodes since I was a teenager. Great story, if hackneyed in spots. The new Remastered "Flint castle" and orbital shots are very, very nice and above average in many respects.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

So did "Mr. Privacy" Flint build the castle himself? Was it those chintzy robots? Or did he kill the contractors after they were finished?

 

[cooleddie74]

I just saw a week-delayed rebroadcast of "The Way to Eden" on a Baltimore station, which I likely won't be able to pull in over the air after February. Noticed that the reversed image of Kirk as he watches Sevrin grab & eat the poisoned fruit is still reversed, with insignia on wrong side of uniform. Wonder why they didn't correct that? Would have been easy - perhaps it was left in place deliberately?

I noticed too, but then even George Lucas in the super-expensive STAR WARS movies from 1977 to 2002 left in mirror reverse shots of droids and equipment to save having to shoot new images.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

i have a question .
i may be wrong but didnt james blish use the scene with spock and kirk or something like in city on the edge of forever??

No, Blish went back to Harlan Ellison's version of the "City" script and used many lines (especially those for Edith's mission speech), plus a variation of a couple lines from its epilogue as the finale of his short story adaptation of the episode.

Ellison's epilogue was in Kirk's cabin. Spock comes to try to talk to him.
FTR, Ellison had originally written a line referring to Kirk's refusal to act in Edith Keeler's death that went something like, "No other woman was ever offered the universe for love."

Since in the aired episode Kirk did indeed act by stopping McCoy from saving Edith, Blish changed the line to "No other woman was almost offered the universe for love."

So, in summation, Blish used lots of Ellison's original dialogue, plus his original ending. It did not come from Bixby's "Requiem For Methuselah."

Sir Rhosis

 

[pookha]

ack i messed up the question.
i was wondering if what blish had used could have come from an earlier script for city and had inspired the ending scene in Methuselah.
it makes more sense as an ending scene for city.


sorry about that.

 

[cooleddie74]

For the record, for those not in the know...James Daly was the father of Tyne and Tim Daly.