Great singing voice! He should sing Country AND Western!
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Your not wrong I didn’t really like the singing scenes in that episode but he could definitively sing
There’s a place outside of Chicago he could play at.
I like Way to Eden more than I like The Alternative Factor. The jam session was pretty cool. There is nothing about Alternative Factor that I found redeeming.
It is very difficult to answer because I really love everything so much.. But out of all the tos as a woman, probably the mudds women when women are sold to the lithium miners workers.. And still I understand that this is a different era and at that time women were also presented as furniture in some films... so I forgive them and understand the point of the story. Beyond that, i wanna belive that it's maybe also to wake up the women at that time... very optimistic of me o.O
It's strange to forcefully look for a negative things in such an excellent series that has no other competitor to this day
It's strange to forcefully look for a negative things in such an excellent series that has no other competitor to this day
Doctor who used to be a pretty good competitor until the new season
Spock's Brain.
The Alternative Factor for me. All of the commonly cited S3 "clunkers" have some redeeming parts. The Alternative Factor is confusing, illogical, makes McCoy look like a total dunce, and is actually a little boring or at best repetitive at times. That's incredible for TOS. But even TAF has its moments; Shatner's performance is excellent, e.g. Nimoy too.
It's been too long since I've watched season 3 so I can't really say what my absolute least favourite episode is. But I can say that in this thread The Alternative Factor is currently way in the lead, with Plato's Stepchildren, Spock's Brain, and And the Children Shall Lead as runners up. And right behind them is... Balance of Terror??
I thought Enterprise actually did a great job of resolving this! The Romulans managed to stay out of the heroes' sight the whole series by using undercover operatives and a drone ship, and by just not turning on the view screen. Balance of Terror already established that when they're defeated they like to nuke their own ship and leave no survivors, so it did give an explanation for how Starfleet fought a war without ever seeing a corpse.
It's almost like hating E.T, isn't it? (Yet my best friend actually does.)
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As much as I despise the nightmare-fodder monster, creepy score, and Doc-Smith-preposterous concept of "The Man Trap," it at least had a few redeeming virtues, most of them involving character development.
"And The Children Shall Lead." Period. Bad concept, bad SFX, bad casting of the "big bad," and massive character-abuse of the principal cast.
"And The Children Shall Lead." Period. Bad concept, bad SFX, bad casting of the "big bad," and massive character-abuse of the principal cast.
Yeah I really did not enjoy the man trap it was the first episode of Star Trek in general that I had watched and I almost didn’t watch the second episode but in the end I did and now it’s one of my favourite shows
I don't see what the canon "problem" is with Balance of Terror. The particulars of the history of the Earth-Romulan War work just fine within the context of Star Trek (1966-1969) as its own standalone show. If the later shows had difficulties with it (mainly because of trying to shoehorn in Romulan stories that weren't needed), then that's their problem, not TOS's. 
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Here's your answerHow could any TOS episode possibly be WORSE than "The Way to Eden"?
The Way to Eden actually has an interesting idea underneath some strange choices: the idea that what is paradise for some is poison for others. It actually showcases the idea, if a bit poorly, that Spock would discuss around "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations."
Is it great? No. But do I hold it in higher regard than several other episodes? Definitely.
Indeed. If I'd been in that situation, there would have been no "almost."
I've told this story many times before, and will probably tell it many times again, so if you've already heard it, feel free to scroll past.
The first two partial episodes of ST that I ever watched were the ending of "A Taste of Armageddon" and the beginning of "Space Seed," both in strip-syndication, both while still in elementary school (probably 5th grade), both because of lead-ins to other series I watched.
The first complete episode I saw was "The Devil in the Dark." A beautiful story about reconciliation between the human population of a mining colony, and a native being who had every reason to consider the humans to be a bunch of murdering monsters.
Not long after that, I saw "Operation: Annihilate." A story about a parasite colony-creature that could not be reasoned with. Admittedly, the idea of intense UV being less harmful than intense visible light was shaky at best, but if we assume that it was a particular narrow frequency band of UV, it becomes less so, and certainly we're not talking "Doc Smith preposterous."
Then, after I'd seen most of the series, it cycled back to "The Man Trap." The salt vampire's "Young Nancy" guise closely resembled a beloved music teacher who serviced the "general music" classes at my school (and probably one or two others in the district), which made the true appearance of the species all the more shocking and nightmare-provoking. If it had been my first exposure to ST, it would have also been my last. It was at least a decade before I could bring myself to see the episode again, and could appreciate the character development that was perhaps its only redeeming virtue. And eventually, I realized that the whole premise of a species that metabolized sodium chloride was utterly preposterous (and it wasn't until I'd read both versions of "Doc" Smith's Triplanetary that I could see the analogy, or coined the phrase, "Doc Smith preposterous": given that it's almost impossible to tie up sodium+ ions or chloride- ions into something insoluble, that would keep them from finding each other and re-forming as common salt, that notion is as preposterous as the idea of radium as a jewelry or currency metal [sure, it's rare, but it's rare because it spontaneously decays into other elements, in the process emitting harmful radiation] or using iron [literally the most stable element in the whole Periodic Table] as an energy source).
Wow that’s crazy what are the chances
What are the odds sounds better
The odds of what? Being repulsed by the weak concept and nightmare-fodder of "The Man Trap"? Well, I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones. The odds of getting hooked by "The Devil in the Dark"? Again, I can't possibly be the only one.
Oh, and welcome to the squirrel-cage (and look out for the nuts). You've entered a realm populated by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Star Trek geeks, Including a number of currently active ST novelists.
Oh, and welcome to the squirrel-cage (and look out for the nuts). You've entered a realm populated by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Star Trek geeks, Including a number of currently active ST novelists.
I always liked Balance Of Terror, it's a good episode imo.I don't see what the canon "problem" is with Balance of Terror. The particulars of the history of the Earth-Romulan War work just fine within the context of Star Trek (1966-1969) as its own standalone show. If the later shows had difficulties with it (mainly because of trying to shoehorn in Romulan stories that weren't needed), then that's their problem, not TOS's.
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