Star Trek TOS Re-Watch

[ZapBrannigan]

According to Wikipedia:

It's unknown if Gene added the dancing sexy alien priestess or not, but I'd bet 'yes'.

It's definitely worth rewatching. Thinking further on it, I rescind my "C" grade. It's a good episode wrestling with a difficult subject with no easy answers.

I read somewhere that during Nancy Kovack's shower scene, they deliberately shot too much skin, including major side boob. It was part of a negotiating strategy: make the network standards guy veto that exposure, so he would feel obligated to allow lesser things to stay in the episode. Basically, he would get corralled into a sliding scale to keep from feeling like a meanie.

 

[Commander Troi]

I had forgotten almost everything about the episode except Nona healing Kirk. Nancy made an impression.

 

[Farscape One]

I had forgotten almost everything about the episode except Nona healing Kirk. Nancy made an impression.

She certainly made an impression on me when I was younger.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

It was part of a negotiating strategy: make the network standards guy veto that exposure, so he would feel obligated to allow lesser things to stay in the episode.

Like the extra violent bits Scorsese often throws in. BID.....*

(*but I digressed.)

 

[Poltargyst]

She certainly made an impression on me when I was younger.

Yep.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Yep.

I saw her Nancy Kovack two years back for my final nostalgia con. But it's my brother who still thinks about her just about every week. I always did like Tyree's mostly good nature. And hair.

 

[Uhura's Song]

I am starting this project but am going in production order, and onitting The Cage until I hit The Menangerie.

One thing I never noticed before in Where No One Has Gone before, is that DeForest Kelley in the background of the Kirk/Spick chess scene? Seems improbable, but freeze it when Kirk is talking to the viewscreen.

Am I crazy?

 

[Commander Troi]

No, DeForest wasn't in it.

 

[Farscape One]

I am starting this project but am going in production order, and onitting The Cage until I hit The Menangerie.

One thing I never noticed before in Where No One Has Gone before, is that DeForest Kelley in the background of the Kirk/Spick chess scene? Seems improbable, but freeze it when Kirk is talking to the viewscreen.

Am I crazy?

No, it isn't him. The first produced episode after the second pilot, "THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER", is the first episode DeForest Kelley appears in.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I mean, yeah, it resembles him in the hair, but nah. Just a passing similarity. It would have been all over fandom decades ago if it was Kelley.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

No, it isn't him. The first produced episode after the second pilot, "THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER", is the first episode DeForest Kelley appears in.

McCoy and Uhura not only debuted together, they left together as well in TUC. Rand also began with CORBOMITE, of course.

 

[Commander Troi]

"Return to Tomorrow" written by John T. Dugan (under the pen-name "John Kingsbridge")

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Ann Mulhall have their bodies borrowed by old and powerful aliens, who wish to build themselves android bodies. They are the last survivors of their people.

I had totally forgotten that this is the episode with the "risk is our business" speech!

Sargon is noble af. At first, Henoch seems merely playful as he flirts with Chapel (Nimoy plays him beautifully). Then he makes the poison and mucks with Chapel's mind and shows he's a dick.

Diana Muldaur does a terrific job showing how Thalassa loves being embodied again and doesn't want to be stuck as an android. She also does great when Thalassa realizes she's been corrupted and has to take out Henoch.

Henoch is drunk with power, terrorizing the crew. Using Chapel, who he thinks is under his control, to undo him is awesome. I love her expression when she comments that she and Spock shared consciousness!

I didn't recall Kirk/Sargon dying in this! Even knowing it wasn't permanent, it still shocked me for a moment.

A pulpy SF premise executed well. I agree with Chapel that Sargon's and Thalassa's goodbye is sweet.

 

[Tallguy]

Nimoy is AMAAAAAAZING in this.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Nimoy is AMAAAAAAZING in this.

Yeah he's on fire in this one.

 

[Commander Troi]

I found myself not going, "oh, it looks weird to see Spock smiling and flirty," but completely buying into "this is Henoch and he's a manipulative bastard who enjoys causing trouble." Nimoy totally sold me.

 

[Henoch]

Yeah he's on fire in this one.

No, McCoy was on fire in this one:

 

[fireproof78]

"Return to Tomorrow" written by John T. Dugan (under the pen-name "John Kingsbridge")

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Ann Mulhall have their bodies borrowed by old and powerful aliens, who wish to build themselves android bodies. They are the last survivors of their people.

I had totally forgotten that this is the episode with the "risk is our business" speech!

Sargon is noble af. At first, Henoch seems merely playful as he flirts with Chapel (Nimoy plays him beautifully). Then he makes the poison and mucks with Chapel's mind and shows he's a dick.

Diana Muldaur does a terrific job showing how Thalassa loves being embodied again and doesn't want to be stuck as an android. She also does great when Thalassa realizes she's been corrupted and has to take out Henoch.

Henoch is drunk with power, terrorizing the crew. Using Chapel, who he thinks is under his control, to undo him is awesome. I love her expression when she comments that she and Spock shared consciousness!

I didn't recall Kirk/Sargon dying in this! Even knowing it wasn't permanent, it still shocked me for a moment.

A pulpy SF premise executed well. I agree with Chapel that Sargon's and Thalassa's goodbye is sweet.

Definitely one of my favorite episodes and I love the SF concepts presented throughout. It's an interesting concept presented so well, and seeing the actors being different people is always fun. A solid outing.

 

[Farscape One]

Not to mention having Kirk's excellent "Risk is our business" speech.

 

[Commander Troi]

I love Shatner's little grin when he says, "Risk... risk is our business."

 

[Tallguy]

I love Shatner's little grin

Full stop.