The Galileo Seven

[trekyourself]

I remember loving this episode the first time I saw it. Because when I initially started watching, my ex had got me into it, and I remember continuously asking her why spock wasn't in command. He seemed clearly superior for the role to me, and i couldn't wrap my head around it. This episode solved that for me. It showed me that the crew wouldn't want to follow someone who's coldly logical when it's an emotional situation. The fact that spock acted mostly correctly, and they still wouldn't listen cemented that fact for me. Made it easier to enjoy the rest of the show. Also, on a side note, my memory may not be serving correct, but there was a huge problem with shedding weight to make it off the planet. I always wondered why they never thought to remove the chairs?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I always wondered why they never thought to remove the chairs?

They couldn't fly the shuttlecraft without fixed seats. I think their heads would be hitting the walls or each other's heads.

Have you ever gone riding loose in the bed of a pickup truck? I tried it once and got tossed around. It feels very unsafe. And there were no steel mounts sticking up in the floor where chairs used to be, which would have inflicted significant injuries on me.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

The happy endings seem a little off when taken in context.

I bet someone could make a cool YouTube video weaving all of those "group laugh" moments together, while running subtitles detailing how many people died in that episode.

Although even as I say that, I thought it was hypocritical of Kirk in SfS to be all "this time we've paid for the party with our dearest blood" like Spock's life is worth more than everyone else's he's ever lost.

Well, I'd say that was more or less following the lead of TWOK's ending, where David says to Kirk, "You've never really faced death," and Kirk replies, "No. Not like this." I think you could make a case that Spock's death hit him harder than even Gary Mitchell's or Edith Keeler's.

 

[Warped9]

Although even as I say that, I thought it was hypocritical of Kirk in SfS to be all "this time we've paid for the party with our dearest blood" like Spock's life is worth more than everyone else's he's ever lost.

Well it isn't unusual to feel the loss of someone close more keenly than the loss of someone you barely know or not at all.

 

[J.T.B.]

Is that the one where you can see the second shuttlecraft in the back when the Galileo takes off but then disappears when they change the viewing angle? I can't believe they missed something so obvious.

Yeah, that's bad. Also the segments of the retracting doors are not visible in the reverse angle.

I always repeat it because it's one of the few episodes I've seen with revised VFX, but it has a good example of something discussed in the "remastered" thread: changing what was shown in the original for no apparent reason other than a whim of the new effects team. And that is the shuttle lifting off, shifting a little sideways and tilting nose-forward like a helicopter. Why?!

One thing I didn't like about the episode was the ending. Even though people died, Kirk and the rest of the bridge crew got all giggly making fun of Spock's "emotional reaction" when he ignited the fuel. It just seemed out of place to laugh about a mission where people died.

And not just laughing, but that horribly overplayed, slapping knees, wiping eyes, borderline-incapacitating phony forced hilarity, as if the little exchange between Kirk and Spock was the funniest thing any of them had ever heard. Really an awful moment in an otherwise pretty good episode.

A counter example would be the somber "Jackson is still dead" from "Catspaw," when it seems Kirk feels the loss of anyone under his command and which I find a pretty effective part of a so-so episode.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I always repeat it because it's one of the few episodes I've seen with revised VFX, but it has a good example of something discussed in the "remastered" thread: changing what was shown in the original for no apparent reason other than a whim of the new effects team. And that is the shuttle lifting off, shifting a little sideways and tilting nose-forward like a helicopter. Why?!

Yeah, and they always try to justify any change they choose to make as: "Well, this is what they would have done if only..." because apparently CGI artists have the ability to mind-read over 40 years.

I think a lot of these changes were just because, after repeatedly staring a certain effects shot for a long time, any change seems "better."