Star Trek-RM: Whom Gods Destroy… Grading/Discussion

[AstroSmurf]

This is the grading & discussion thread for Star Trek Remastered airing the weekend of 05/24/08.

Whom Gods Destroy

The U.S.S. Enterprise is ordered to deliver a new medicine to a facility for the criminally insane beneath the surface of Elba II. The new drug is designed to help the Federation eliminate mental illness forever. But when Kirk and Spock beam down to the underground asylum they find that it has been taken over by Gath of Izar, a former famous starship captain. With the facility at this mad man’s mercy, the captain and his first officer are forced to play a mental game of “cat and mouse” to stop Garth from escaping from the planet or ending all their lives.

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[cooleddie74]

C-.

Average remastering.

Nothing exciting or great about the original script and episode, and the new CGI Remastering efforts were just average. New orbital shots of the Enterprise with Elba II now a more Venus-like, toxic-looking world. The shots of the ship firing phasers at the asylum's protective force field was meh. So-so.

 

[Kryton]

Wow...I normally pick this up overnight on a Boston feed, but it actually happens to be showing locally right now.

Weird!

 

[Kryton]

Queen to queen's level 3.

 

[RAMA]

Horrible, mostly unwatchable episode. Yvonne Craig is a Pilsbury Dough boy of a an Orion slavegirl.

RAMA

 

[Outpost4]

This is certainly one I haven't watched for years. Pretty bad. I had noticed that in his tirade after first being asked for the password, when Lord Garth is pounding the floor, his ring breaks off, flying to the side. Oops.

Not much new in the remastering biz. I froze the last shot of the Enterprise leaving the planet. Thinking of the Court Martial conversation, we get a momentary view of the part of the ship with the ion pod. No pod. I guess it's only there when the plot requires it to be.

 

[Cyrus]

I like this episode. Very entertaining and quite a bit of humor. It's too bad some of the funny stuff became victims of syndication cuts this time around (Marta writing Shakespeare, Garth tossing the explosive to the Andorian & Tellerite).

I liked the new cgi planet.

The soles of Marta's feet were not green in the early part of episode, but they were green during the dance scene. She was hot either way.

Spock was pretty daft in this episode. There were plenty of ways he could have figured out which Kirk was fake. And he had the option of stunning them both right away (something Kirk suggested later on).

 

[cooleddie74]

Yvonne Craig has pretty much always been the best part of this episode for me. She's delicious in almost any makeup or costume during her heyday.

 

[Hambone]

In Marta's close-ups she appeared very, very green. In the wide shots she was grayish-green.

This is an "average" episode by any stretch. It's a "good" 3rd season episode.

My local station cut the scene with the Klingon cruiser in orbit! Frickin' political ads! Don't they know ST nerds aren't allowed to vote?

 

[Kryton]

Would've been hawter if they'd had her strip off the Batgirl costume.

 

[cooleddie74]

Or there'd been a script.

 

[ZERO_of_ZERO]

I always enjoy this episode: B+

 

[Timo]

The soles of Marta's feet were not green in the early part of episode, but they were green during the dance scene. She was hot either way.

Quick poll-within-poll, guys: How many of you think Marta was really an Orion? And how many think she was as much an Orion as the average asylum occupant is Napoleon Bonaparte?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Michael]

The soles of Marta's feet were not green in the early part of episode, but they were green during the dance scene. She was hot either way.

Quick poll-within-poll, guys: How many of you think Marta was really an Orion? And how many think she was as much an Orion as the average asylum occupant is Napoleon Bonaparte?

Marta was an Orion

She just pretended to be an Orion

 

[cooleddie74]

From all I read and gleaned growing up I assumed Marta WAS an Orion woman who just happened to develop glaring mental problems, committed some sort of crime and had to be committed to Elba II.

 

[Hambone]

The soles of Marta's feet were not green in the early part of episode, but they were green during the dance scene. She was hot either way.

Quick poll-within-poll, guys: How many of you think Marta was really an Orion? And how many think she was as much an Orion as the average asylum occupant is Napoleon Bonaparte?

Timo Saloniemi

She was Yvonne Craig pretending to be Batgirl pretending to be an asylum inmate pretending to be an Orion. Even Kirk could figure that out. Her green makeup came off on his wrist when she tried to stab him.

 

[cooleddie74]

The soles of Marta's feet were not green in the early part of episode, but they were green during the dance scene. She was hot either way.

Quick poll-within-poll, guys: How many of you think Marta was really an Orion? And how many think she was as much an Orion as the average asylum occupant is Napoleon Bonaparte?

Timo Saloniemi

She was Yvonne Craig pretending to be Batgirl pretending to be an asylum inmate pretending to be an Orion. Even Kirk could figure that out. Her green makeup came off on his wrist when she tried to stab him.

Shame THAT was never a script during the last year of BATMAN. The show might have gone on a tad longer.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I protest the grading of the scripts from these butchered versions being aired. The grading should be based on the CGI only.

 

[cooleddie74]

Well, based on just the CGI it would get a C. Barely better than the episode and edited content themselves.

 

[Kryton]

Always liked Garth's crown, though.

Hmmm...in retrospect, it reminds me a little of Cochran's "Jughead hat" in "ST: First Contact".