TAS being canon makes several really goofy concepts canon but if we can fit Megas Tu and Giant Spock into the continuity then we can find a way to explain the Bonaventure in the Phoenix-to-Enterprise 1701 evolutionary line.
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Really goofy concepts? No worse than a giant green 'Space Hand' that grabs the Enterprise in orbit (projected by the god Apollo) - See TOS S2 - "Who Mourns For Adonias"...
Or President Lincoln floating IN SPACE and conversing to Kirk directly via teh Enterprise Bridge viewscreen. See TOS S3 - "The Savage Curtain".
Or 'Brainless Spock' being wired up to be run by Dr. McCoy (with his hairstyle FULLY INTACT after his brain was removed) so they can "bring him along" as they go searching a frozen planet for his brain...? See TOS S3 - "Spock's Brain"
So, yeah, does a 50' Spock close or a magic wielding Satyr REALLY stand out as some of the 'most ridiculous' concepts ever in TOS/TAS? I think not.
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Hell, they're not even goofy by some Berman Trek standards. 
What? Cheese being able to infect Bio-Neural Gel packs and make a ship 'sick' is entirely plausible....Hell, they're not even goofy by some Berman Trek standards.
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The Jihad is part of official canon or GTFO.
Mudd's love potion is radically less dumb than the AI and Control stuff on DSC.
Force fields can have hand shapesReally goofy conceots? No worse than a giant green 'Space Hand' that grabs the Enterprise in orbit (projected by the god Apollo) - See TOS S2 - "Who Mourns For Adonias"...
Or President Lincoln floating IN SPACE and conversing to Kirk directly via teh Enterprise Bridge viewscreen. See TOS S3 - "The Savage Curtain".
Or 'Brainless Spock' being wired up to be run by Dr. McCoy (with his hairstyle FULLY INTACT after his brain was removed) so they can "bring him along" as they go searching a frozen planet for his brain...? See TOS S3 - "Spock's Brain"
So, yeah, does a 50' Spock close or a magic wielding Satyr REALLY stand out as some of the 'most ridiculous' concepts ever in TOS/TAS? I think not.
Lincoln was an alien entity created by aliens and not human
Put the skullcap back on and the hair is absolutely fully intact
Cheese can have bacterial spores, they can infect gel packsWhat? Cheese being able to infect Bio-Neural Gel packs and make a ship 'sick' is entirely plausible....
Gel packs as computer circuitry... yeah, Star Trek has always been weird.
They're some sort of quasi-living thing. Surprised they didn't do a "they become sentient" storyline.
Richard Daystrom imprinted actual human brain engrams onto the circuitry of the M5 multitronic computer and that's an early form of bioneural computing tech, however limited to actually using human brain tissue to make the M5 more adaptive and intelligent.
And we know how that worked out.
We don't talk about that.
Or...Discovery. Or Control. Or Section 31, at least for a long time. Or...the Delphic Expanse and Temporal Cold War.
Or...Discovery. Or Control. Or Section 31, at least for a long time. Or...the Delphic Expanse and Temporal Cold War.
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^^^ Been trying to track down details of that prop for decades. I believe it's a modified calculator, but what kind has eluded me. LOVE that freakin' thing.
One of those slide-out 1980s calculators that were wallet-sized would be my guess.
I had calculators that small and thin when I was a kid.
That was TNG S7 "Emergence"
Yep. And it was a decent episode, too.
