I don't know why you think this requires arguing over, but I'm sick of getting drawn into petty fights over opinions, so I'm not going to participate.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I don't know why you think this requires arguing over, but I'm sick of getting drawn into petty fights over opinions, so I'm not going to participate.
Funny thing about the space knives....when I was a kid, I lived quite a bit away from the tv station that aired Trek on the UHF channel so that, like a lot of us, I had to deal with a lot of tv snow. Like...a lot. So for well over a decade (probably until I got my first VCR copy) I couldn't tell those were actual knives. I thought it was some vortex or tunneling effect (sort of like the later wormhole from TMP).
I was pretty let down when I saw a pristine copy of the ep and they were literally....knives. Like actual knives. I was like "What the fuck?! How is that scary? They are literally knives in space!"
I still discover new stuff in Star Trek because of that tv snow and having not seen a lot of the eps since the 90's.
"And the Children Shall Lead." So bad that the main villain is a defense lawyer who failed to get his client off, nor anyone else based on this episode.
Not everything can be the lady who had Charlie Evans take away her face.
Yeah, that one still holds up today. As for the space knives, I know Sulu was under the influence but...they're knives...in space. How is that not Sulu's thinking? Even worse, what were the producers thinking when it came time to come up with something to freak Sulu out?
Guy 1: "I got it...knives in space!"
Guy 2: "But wouldn't Sulu just think how ridiculous that is?"
Guy 1: "No."
Guy 2: "Okay then"
I know third season gets a lot of... grief.* But there ARE reasons for that.
* Thank you SFA for making me self conscious about swearing!
Don't bring a knife to a phaser fight.
Hallucinations do not operate by logic. That's like telling a depressed person to stop being sad.
Can i sneak in a question about The Wrath of Khan movie?-
When Chekov and another crewman beamed down to that hostile 'sandstorm' type planet and were captured by Khan and his followers and taken to their cargo container home, why did the two refuse to answer Khan's simple question about why they'd beamed down?
No wonder Khan was annoyed and put them wriggly things in their ears..
Can i sneak in a question about The Wrath of Khan movie?-
When Chekov and another crewman beamed down to that hostile 'sandstorm' type planet and were captured by Khan and his followers and taken to their cargo container home, why did the two refuse to answer Khan's simple question about why they'd beamed down?
No wonder Khan was annoyed and put them wriggly things in their ears..
Because it was none of Khan's business why they beamed down. Chekov made it crystal clear that Khan was an enemy. So he and Terrell weren't going to tell him shit.
Khan deserved to be told off and left behind to rot.
I have to agree with this. Some of them are much much worse than bad
"Normally I wouldn't care but the ship's knife defenses don't arrive until Tuesday."
Wrong Sulu.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it works. If it were so easy to will away hallucinations, people wouldn't need medical treatment for psychotic episodes, schizophrenia, etc.
Hallucinations: Definition, Causes, Treatment & Types
A hallucination is a false perception of objects or events involving your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. They have several possible causes.
my.clevelandclinic.org
Space knives were dumb, but we're not psychologically compromised*. Asking us to put up with it, as it dragged on and on, that was dumb. What a waste of an episode!
* — Unless we are.
Roddenberry didn't seem to like "The Cage" too much, because he said in a "Making Star Trek" -type book that he tried to be "too proud" with it but I'm not sure what he meant exactly, but at a guess i'd say he'd have preferred chunks of it to be left on the cutting room floor.
Later in the same book there was a "Notes for scriptwriters" chapter which said "We maintain a fast pace", so perhaps he'd decided The Cage was too slow-moving and wanted things speeded up from then on.
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