So as with the TNG thread being inspiration for this one, what was the last episode you'd seen that you had thoughts, perceptions, ideas to argue, etc?
For "Whom Gods Destroy", I'm still depressed over how Garth mastering a trait of biological shapeshifting (including mimicking of clothing that every chameleon on Earth would be in absolute awe over).
The cast is pretty solid in this; Yvonne Craig as Marta excels, and has a hankering for target practice by wanting to blow off one of Spock's ears (Did she think he was an art painter too?) Steve Ihnat certainly makes the complexities of Garth compelling (and, as with Shatner, not going OTT when opportunities to do so rose, allowing the scenes' menace to really hit). Still wish they used the wondefulness of Keye Luke more, but he makes every scene (while in the torture chair or when forced to levitate mid-air via Garth's control device (per dialogue, the brace is rendered readily visible thanks to a shadow of it being cast).
The split screen effects are excellent, though it borderlines corny with "You must shoot, but shoot both of us. It's the only way to ensure the safety of the Enterprise!" - yet it still works and satisfyingly so. Spock already brought up a issue as potential means to figure which Kirk was which, albeit one that was countered as being one that every ship commander would know. Saying something more esoteric would lead to the fight all the same... but would likely lead to the same resultant fight anyway.
Not quite "Dagger of the Mind" and oversimplifies some facets to the issues (inevitable for a self-contained 50-minute story), but it takes some interestingly different directions, and it holds its own.
For "Whom Gods Destroy", I'm still depressed over how Garth mastering a trait of biological shapeshifting (including mimicking of clothing that every chameleon on Earth would be in absolute awe over).
The cast is pretty solid in this; Yvonne Craig as Marta excels, and has a hankering for target practice by wanting to blow off one of Spock's ears (Did she think he was an art painter too?) Steve Ihnat certainly makes the complexities of Garth compelling (and, as with Shatner, not going OTT when opportunities to do so rose, allowing the scenes' menace to really hit). Still wish they used the wondefulness of Keye Luke more, but he makes every scene (while in the torture chair or when forced to levitate mid-air via Garth's control device (per dialogue, the brace is rendered readily visible thanks to a shadow of it being cast).
The split screen effects are excellent, though it borderlines corny with "You must shoot, but shoot both of us. It's the only way to ensure the safety of the Enterprise!" - yet it still works and satisfyingly so. Spock already brought up a issue as potential means to figure which Kirk was which, albeit one that was countered as being one that every ship commander would know. Saying something more esoteric would lead to the fight all the same... but would likely lead to the same resultant fight anyway.
Not quite "Dagger of the Mind" and oversimplifies some facets to the issues (inevitable for a self-contained 50-minute story), but it takes some interestingly different directions, and it holds its own.
