The Enterprise Incendent

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

What do you think of this episode?As for me I like e every bit of it.I love the whole esponage that was going on. I think the dangerous game Spock was playing between Kirk and The Romulan Comander was not really right thing to do,but it all turn out the way it was suposed to.I also thought thought the part where Kirk dressd up as Romulan was pretty cool too!

 

[sbk1234]

I never understood why so many seemed to dislike this episode, including the writer who had her name removed. I thought it was a good episode; one of my favorites.

 

[trevanian]

As for why the writer wouldn't have liked the alterations, it is kinda like doing a really good antiwar flick and having enlistment go up afterwards. Write something that is supposed to echo the realife PUEBLO, but then somebody makes it into a 'we're always in the right, so we are entitled to do bad shit and get away with it' story ... that's a serious subversion of intent.

I don't think she took her name off it, though; otherwise she wouldn't have gotten hate mail for the spock/romcomm scenes.

 

[Forbin]

The major suspension of disbelief, of course, was that Kirk could speak Romulan well enough to be a spy. We tended to ignore stuff like that in the 60s.

 

[ToddPence]

I never understood why so many seemed to dislike this episode, including the writer who had her name removed.

DC Fontana didn't have her name removed from this episode, as it appears in the credits. You might have this episode confused with "The Way to Eden", which she did have her name removed from.

 

[DevilEyes]

As for why the writer wouldn't have liked the alterations, it is kinda like doing a really good antiwar flick and having enlistment go up afterwards. Write something that is supposed to echo the realife PUEBLO, but then somebody makes it into a 'we're always in the right, so we are entitled to do bad shit and get away with it' story ... that's a serious subversion of intent.

I don't think she took her name off it, though; otherwise she wouldn't have gotten hate mail for the spock/romcomm scenes.

And she said she didn't even write the romantic scenes and thought it was a mistake. I seem to remember that one of her objections was that a Romulan Commander wouldn't have acted so naive and fallen for Spock's deception.

 

[startrekrcks]

Is that when Kirk disguised himself that episode by the way Shatner looked really cool.

 

[sbk1234]

I never understood why so many seemed to dislike this episode, including the writer who had her name removed.

DC Fontana didn't have her name removed from this episode, as it appears in the credits. You might have this episode confused with "The Way to Eden", which she did have her name removed from.

I did a little checking. AParently she wanted to remove her name, but was talked out of it.
My mistake.

 

[T'Bonz]

And she said she didn't even write the romantic scenes and thought it was a mistake. I seem to remember that one of her objections was that a Romulan Commander wouldn't have acted so naive and fallen for Spock's deception.

It was and a Romulan Commander wouldn't have been so stupid, or else she'd have never made it so far in her career.

 

[Forbin]

She made it so far by always wearing a miniskirt!

 

[Sir Rhosis]

I have a copy of Fontana's first draft, and the spock/Romulan scenes are even more embarrassing than what aired, so in this case I take her complainsts with a grain of salt.

Sir Rhosis

 

[James Wright]

Which version of the episode did you see, the remastered version or the original version?
What'd you think of Kirk with the ears!?


James