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Yeah, I liked the unusual sets and lighting effects as well.

I always liked "Spectre of the Gun" as well. The sets there were similarly minimalistic, by design in that case. I liked how Chekov even went through a door, instead of around the wall at one point.

And that was my first exposure to the Gunfight of the OK Corral and for years because of that episode I thought the Clantons were the good guys and the Earps the bad guys.

At the time I saw "Specter of the Gun", I was already familiar with the versions which make the Erps the good guys and the Clantons the bad guys.

I think that it is rather accurate to say that both opinions were half right and half wrong.

The writers had to make the Clantons the relatively good characters because the Melkotians were usiing the Earps as the executioners of the protagonists.

But in the story, the reason why the Melkotians considered the Earps to be sinsister and unbeatable killers is that the Melkotians got that information from Kirk's memory of the old west and his ancestor's role in settling it. Posssibly from family stories handed down the centuries. And thus I deduce that some of Kirk's ancestors had the surname of McLowery or Clanton.
 
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You could make a pretty damn good rap video out of footage from TOS.

When I was thinking how it could be done, I played Gangsta's Paradise and a ton of episodes came to mind. Mostly "A Piece of the Action" but also "I, Mudd", "The Cage", "The Empath", "The Enterprise Incident", and some others.

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Kirk's down with the 'hood.

No, I haven't edited together such a video yet. But I can just picture it.
 
Of o course the Nazis didn't augment or improve themselves or do anthything to make themselves ubermesnch, they believed that they were already ubermensch, even though they weren't.

Plus the very word uebermensch was misappropriated from Nietzsche's philosophies, were it just described a person, any person, regardless of genetics or ethnicity, who lived to their fullest potential.
 
I think you can make this argument for several TNG and VOY characters.

And which characters would those be?

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"Take me out to the Holosuite" - Sisko. As someone who takes nothing but joy in baseball, he of all people should understand that it's for fun.

TBF, Solok was prejudiced against humans in general, and Sisko ego had gotten the better of him with Solok before. That's how he got pinned in a wrestling match with him.
 
“STD” does not work because I’ve never heard anyone ever call Voyager “STV”. It also immediately brings my hackles up because it’s used by THAT section of the fanbase as a juvenile insult.

All the more reason to reclaim it and rob them of their "insult".

Several fan fiction sites use STV and STE for the earlier one-word series.
 
Of o course the Nazis didn't augment or improve themselves or do anthything to make themselves ubermesnch, they believed that they were already ubermensch, even though they weren't.

Pervitin (Meth) was a hell of a drug,
 
Ok, sorry to double up, but I just watched "Latent Image", and I have an opinion based on it.

Janeway's initial response, deleting his memories of the incident, was the right course of action.

Voyager had one, count him ONE trained physician available. And, like it or not, he had a malfunction that was killing him. The good of the crew demanded that the doctor work properly.

The principle is similar to amputating a hand to save the whole person. I don't want to have one hand. I don't want to be physically unable to button my trousers, wash my hands, grate cheese. But I recognize that it's better than the alternative. The doctor should have as well, since removing gangrenous body parts is undoubtedly in his programming.

If he wanted the memories returned, it should only have happened after (1) Voyager was back home and the doctor's suiciding would only harm him, or (2) after his program had been sufficiently modified so that he could accept his actions, like a human physician would.
 
Well, Quark of course. Tom Paris looks like a smooth talking type. And there's a bit of smarmyness about pre-beard Riker, too.
Those choices make sense.

From TNG, Troi would have been an interesting choice as well, as would have Dr. Pulaski.

From VOY, Chakotay, B’Elanna & Tuvok would have fit in, if those roles weren’t already filled in by Sisko/Kira, O’Brien & Odo respectively.
 
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