Well, They Tried But....

[Spock's Barber]

Name the episode that in your opinion starts out Fast and Furious, but ends up Slow and Tedious.

For me, it is 'I, Mudd'. The teaser and the opening minutes of the 1st Act intrigued me, but then it turned into a farcical story, with the characters acting borderlne silly. Is there still room on Elba II for these crazy Starfleet personnel?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Name the episode that in your opinion starts out Fast and Furious, but ends up Slow and Tedious.

For me, it is 'I, Mudd'. The teaser and the opening minutes of the 1st Act intrigued me, but then it turned into a farcical story, with the characters acting borderlne silly. Is there still room on Elba II for these crazy Starfleet personnel?

The silly was part of Kirk's trademarked "confuse a computer" schtick.

 

[spockboy]

Two episodes come to mind.
Arena had a beautiful start but then it slowed right down (much like the Enterprise and Gorn ship) to what was ostensibly a long and drawn out series of shots of Kirk and the Gorn walking around the Vasquez Rocks with Spock and McCoy watching them.

The second would be The Omega Glory. Exciting and intriguing opening, the actor playing Ron Tracy was excellent, great fight scenes, but then the American flag came out and all credibility was lost for me (even as a kid)
If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words (and font!-the Yangs didn't look like they could even draw a printing press never mind build one) and then trying to explain it away with some PLACE FAKE NAME HERE theory of Parallel cultures nonsense.

Oh well, plenty of other good episodes out there.

 

[ToddPence]

"And The Children Shall Lead" had a really effective, horrifying teaser - but the balance of the episode . . . well, we all know how that turned out.

 

[FormerLurker]

Two episodes come to mind.
Arena had a beautiful start but then it slowed right down (much like the Enterprise and Gorn ship) to what was ostensibly a long and drawn out series of shots of Kirk and the Gorn walking around the Vasquez Rocks with Spock and McCoy watching them.

The second would be The Omega Glory. Exciting and intriguing opening, the actor playing Ron Tracy was excellent, great fight scenes, but then the American flag came out and all credibility was lost for me (even as a kid)
If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words (and font!-the Yangs didn't look like they could even draw a printing press never mind build one) and then trying to explain it away with some PLACE FAKE NAME HERE theory of Parallel cultures nonsense.

Oh well, plenty of other good episodes out there.

The Declaration of Independence, as displayed in Washington DC, was handwritten by one the other or both of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Mass produced copies of its content were distributed, but the Declaration itself, even the copy sent to England, were handwritten.

 

[Spock's Barber]

If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words (and font!-the Yangs didn't look like they could even draw a printing press never mind build one) and then trying to explain it away with some PLACE FAKE NAME HERE theory of Parallel cultures nonsense.

Agreed. It seems that whenever the producers ran out of scripts, they said to themselves "Let's do a parallel planet show!"

 

[Sir Rhosis]

[/QUOTE]
The Declaration of Independence, as displayed in Washington DC, was handwritten by one the other or both of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Mass produced copies of its content were distributed, but the Declaration itself, even the copy sent to England, were handwritten.[/QUOTE]

Jefferson obviously hand-wrote the original drafts, which may have some of Franklin's notes on it in his hand. However, the copy we all think of when we think "Declaration of Independence," the engrossed copy, now in the National Archives, was "more than likely," historians believe, done by one Timothy Matlack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Matlack#Penmanship

Sir Rhosis

 

[Maurice]

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If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words ...

The Declaration of Independence, as displayed in Washington DC, was handwritten by one the other or both of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Mass produced copies of its content were distributed, but the Declaration itself, even the copy sent to England, were handwritten.

Ummm... it was the Constitution, not the Declaration in the episode. The former starts "We the People" and the latter "When in the course of human events".

 

[scotpens]

Ummm... it was the Constitution, not the Declaration in the episode.

Yeah, but the Yangs probably had an exact duplicate of the Declaration of Independence as well.

 

[Scotchy]

Patterns of Force. Attached by nukes, but then it's just a buncha nazis.

 

[Warped9]

I have to agree with "I, Mudd" and "And The Children Shall Lead."

 

[Noname Given]

For me it's "The Trouble With Tribbles". It starts out with Kirk, Spock and Chekov explaining all the 'tension' in the region between the Klingon Empire and Federation; and then the Enterprise gets what Chekov terms a "Code One emergency. That's a disaster call..." from Deep Space Station K-7

And after the opening credits we are treated to an episode about balls of fluff - which eventually leads to the wimpiest and most effeminate Klingon Captain we've seen from the Klingon Empire

Now don't get me wrong in that overall I still like that particular episode; but the first time I saw it I remember going (from the teaser) "This one's going to be action packed..." to "Really?"

 

[Maurice]

There's nothing effeminate about Koloth. He's just aristocratic.

 

[telerites]

Ths Deadly Years. Great Chekov scream and rotting corpse at the start but lack luster after that. It seemed to drag on and on. It got old pretty fast. Pun intended.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Patterns of Force. Attached by nukes, but then it's just a buncha nazis.

And the ending was hilarious when Skip Homeier gets shot in the stomach. The expression on his face looks more like he just got kicked in the testicles.

 

[uniderth]

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If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words ...

The Declaration of Independence, as displayed in Washington DC, was handwritten by one the other or both of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Mass produced copies of its content were distributed, but the Declaration itself, even the copy sent to England, were handwritten.

Ummm... it was the Constitution, not the Declaration in the episode. The former starts "We the People" and the latter "When in the course of human events".

You mean I've been quoting it wrong all these years? I thought the constitution started with "E Plebnista." No wonder my Presidential campaign failed.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Ummm... it was the Constitution, not the Declaration in the episode.

Yeah, but the Yangs probably had an exact duplicate of the Declaration of Independence as well.

They didn't touch on it in the episode, but I imagine the Kohms had an exact copy of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

 

[FormerLurker]

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If they had only altered the flag somewhat and all that Declaration of Independence stuff written with the exact same words ...

The Declaration of Independence, as displayed in Washington DC, was handwritten by one the other or both of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Mass produced copies of its content were distributed, but the Declaration itself, even the copy sent to England, were handwritten.

Ummm... it was the Constitution, not the Declaration in the episode. The former starts "We the People" and the latter "When in the course of human events".

Yeah, yeah, yeah . The important point was that it was not produced on a printing press, but rather by the human hand. You saved out the wrong part of the quote. I was responding to this:

(and font!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Name the episode that in your opinion starts out Fast and Furious, but ends up Slow and Tedious.

"Miri" for me. The teaser is one of TOS's very best, and ends on the provocative question of exactly how a duplicate Earth could exist. You're really dying to find out how this could be possible. And then the episode itself takes a left turn into a story about the Grups and the Onlies, with no explanation ever offered for why this planet is an exact double for Sol 3.

When the answer turns out to be "'Just because, okay?", why even raise the question?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Name the episode that in your opinion starts out Fast and Furious, but ends up Slow and Tedious.

"Miri" for me. The teaser is one of TOS's very best, and ends on the provocative question of exactly how a duplicate Earth could exist. You're really dying to find out how this could be possible. And then the episode itself takes a left turn into a story about the Grups and the Onlies, with no explanation ever offered for why this planet is an exact double for Sol 3.

When the answer turns out to be "'Just because, okay?", why even raise the question?

That's exactly why I dislike the 'parallel planet' episodes. They are just too ridiculous to explain.