"A Fistful of Datas" is a ton of fun. "Emergence" is enjoyable, too, and pretty humorous.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I've talked enough about my opinion on City on the Edge of Forever.
My dislike started out as disappointment with a title like that I excepted a story that was a lot more...Jack Vance-like...instead of "we're going to the studio back-lot and dressing up in period wear yet again"
Piece of the Action: I don't like mobster movies (no not even the Sopranos), so why would I like that episode? Same goes with Fistful of Datas and Westerns or the Sherlock Homes episodes or the Dixon Hill ones. They just all happen to be genres I'm not generally interested in.
The only holodeck episodes I like are Captain Photon (because I do enjoy old, corny scifi) and Hollow Pursuits (because it actually does something with the holodeck, instead of just using it to dress the actors in period wear.
I obviously enjoy them more if I'm into the genres, but that's just a bonus. The real fun for me is just watching characters I like play.
Yeah I disagree with that, obviously, watching the characters LARP doesn't really interest me.
Unless we're talking about different things, It's "Proton" not "Photon".
I love "The Way to Eden". It's a guilty pleasure of mine. It always has been. And finally, finally, finally someone else in the Online Trek Community is backing me up. Groovy!
It's written by people who don't get hippies at all, and that's what gives it its unintentional charm. Alice's Restaurant this isn't, but I don't mind. And people who are too uppity don't like this episode, that makes me like it even more.
It's written by people who don't get hippies at all, and that's what gives it its unintentional charm. Alice's Restaurant this isn't, but I don't mind. And people who are too uppity don't like this episode, that makes me like it even more.
It's not even close to the worst episode of TOS. I'm not even sure it's in the Bottom 5.
Ditto!
"And The Children Shall Lead" is the worst piece of... (I'll let you guess what) of the whole franchise... I couldn't even watch it to the end the first time. I don't even care to know how it ends although it wasn't hard to guess. Plus the guy playing the ghost or whatever is one of the worst actors I've ever seen. I mean, what happened? He got something on the director or something?
Pretty close. Melvin Belli wasn't an actor — he was an attorney for celebrities and others (including Jack Ruby). I believe I heard his casting was a publicity stunt.
Jack Ruby? When you say celebrities, you mean mobsters, don't you?
They did say and others, as in other people, not just celebrities. But, as @Silvercrest notes, Melvin Bell was not an actor, so his performance is understandably terrible.
Yeah, I know, but the Mob has their own lawyers.
Plus I don't think it's understandable to cheat the audience with second-rate material.
It's completely understandable. I don't like it, and I avoid that episode for sure. But, I don't see it as not understandable.
I'll have to reread his book to be sure. I don't recall any horse heads though...Maybe Shatner was afraid that he'd find the head of one of his horses in his bed...
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Well, I disagree but let's leave it at that.
Ok...I don't see how people cheating other people isn't understandable. But, I'll respect the request to leave it at that.
I mean others.
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