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02-15-2021, 05:24 PM | #751 |
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The Andorian makeup in Enterprise is the best alien design update Star Trek ever did. They made it 1000 times better while keeping similar enough to plausibly be the same species.
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02-15-2021, 08:21 PM | #752 |
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02-17-2021, 10:12 AM | #753 |
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So what is your favorite episode of the original series?
My top five: City on the Edge of Forever The Cage A Private Little War Mirror, Mirror Where No Man Has Gone Before |
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02-17-2021, 10:55 PM | #754 | |
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Rounding out the top five: 2. Balance of Terror 3. City on the Edge of Forever 4. Mirror, Mirror 5. Day of the Dove |
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02-17-2021, 11:21 PM | #755 |
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This video highlights some of the special aspects of Doomsday Machine, including it's unique score and certain things the director did, including showing the entire bridge (which was only done in this episode).
20 minutes long or so, but if you like Star Trek it's worth the time. |
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02-18-2021, 01:40 PM | #756 |
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Cool vid. Thanks! I believe that I've read that Doomsday Machine was James Doohan's favorite episode too.
Balance of Terror is a classic. I'm sure you already know that it was based on The Enemy Below (1957). Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea also did a pretty good version of the story called Killers of the Deep. Last edited by Mennonite; 02-18-2021 at 01:58 PM.. |
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02-19-2021, 05:26 PM | #757 |
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I'm rewatching some early TNG. Abysmal. It's amazing that this show made it to season two. I don't think this show would have ever become a classic if Gene Roddenberry hadn't gotten sick.
The best of a bad lot: Conspiracy Too Short a Season Heart of Glory The Battle I also watched season seven's Phantasms: There are some clunkers in the final season, but I think it's generally underrated. |
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02-19-2021, 09:31 PM | #758 |
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The first couple of seasons were pretty lame. I thought the pilot sucked bad enough that didn't watch it further. In fact, I really didn't like anything about it at first - the ship design, the uniforms, the characters, any of it (it really is amazing how unattractive they made Troi early on). Riker kind of seemed like a Kirk knockoff, and I remember describing the show to someone as "Kirk in space with his snooty dad." And Wesley was Jar Jar before there was a Jar Jar. I had no interest in it.
Then a couple of years passed, and I started hearing that it had improved, so I gave it another chance. That was the beginning of the third season. The uniforms were better, the characters were fleshed out, the stories were more compelling, and they started the Worf dishonor arc, which was really cool. Even the Enterprise D finally started to grow on me a bit, although I still don't like it nearly as much as the original. By the time Yesterday's Enterprise came along (still my favorite TNG episode) I was completely hooked. The following year the station that aired it started showing reruns every night at 6:00, so then I watched the episodes from the first and second seasons for the first time. They were mostly klunkers, but there were a few gems that stood out. The Measure of a Man is probably the best early episode. |
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02-19-2021, 10:27 PM | #759 |
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Can we all agree that the Defiant is far and away the best ship in all of Trek?
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Sulu also goes running off after Don Juan at one point which is kinda funny in hindsight. Written by the great Theodore Sturgeon. He also wrote Amok Time. |
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