So, Star Trek season 3...
May. 31st, 2010 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I find it difficult to believe that "Spock's Brain" and "The Enterprise Incident" come from the same series. Did contemporary audiences suffer explodey!brain from the discombobulation of seeing them in consecutive weeks without fair warning?
Memory Alpha informs me that the team of the time considered "The Enterprise Incident" a failure. Which just goes to show that authors should never be allowed to judge their own work, because it was made of EPIC WIN, and as soon as I have spare time that doesn't need to be devoted to packing or writing fic for that fest I totally forgot about until last night and OH HAI the deadline is today! I am going to seek out fic involving Spock and the Romulan commander in the movie-verse.
Speaking of explodey!brain, I am a wee bit sad that Assignment: Earth never got picked up for a series, because it had the potential to be, like, a cross between Sapphire & Steel, The Avengers and some kind of Cold War drama. On the other hand, using what might well be the very last episode of your show to introduce a whole different show? Pretty shitty move, Roddenberry. Not quite on the level of, "Surprise! From now on, 'Horns of Nimon' is the season 17 finale!" -- although, as everyone knows, Nimons >>>>> Shada, but still.
It's especially a shame, because "Bread and Circuses" is a great satire about television culture, full of cancellation!bitterness. And random religious parallels which are only marginally more subtle than a Left Behind novel, but cheerfully undermine Trek's future claims that humanity has "outgrown" religion.
AND NOW, I'm having stomach cramps due to some bad ham at lunch, but I'm also hungry. Solution: a shot of Mylanta followed by toast. LIVING IT UP, BABY!
Memory Alpha informs me that the team of the time considered "The Enterprise Incident" a failure. Which just goes to show that authors should never be allowed to judge their own work, because it was made of EPIC WIN, and as soon as I have spare time that doesn't need to be devoted to packing or writing fic for that fest I totally forgot about until last night and OH HAI the deadline is today! I am going to seek out fic involving Spock and the Romulan commander in the movie-verse.
Speaking of explodey!brain, I am a wee bit sad that Assignment: Earth never got picked up for a series, because it had the potential to be, like, a cross between Sapphire & Steel, The Avengers and some kind of Cold War drama. On the other hand, using what might well be the very last episode of your show to introduce a whole different show? Pretty shitty move, Roddenberry. Not quite on the level of, "Surprise! From now on, 'Horns of Nimon' is the season 17 finale!" -- although, as everyone knows, Nimons >>>>> Shada, but still.
It's especially a shame, because "Bread and Circuses" is a great satire about television culture, full of cancellation!bitterness. And random religious parallels which are only marginally more subtle than a Left Behind novel, but cheerfully undermine Trek's future claims that humanity has "outgrown" religion.
AND NOW, I'm having stomach cramps due to some bad ham at lunch, but I'm also hungry. Solution: a shot of Mylanta followed by toast. LIVING IT UP, BABY!
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Date: 2010-05-31 09:17 am (UTC)And they did.
Enterprise Incident is fun- Mission Impossible in space.
Bread And Circuses, yeah, that's a real WTF bit that Uhura delivers at the end... And not for the intended reason!
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Date: 2010-05-31 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-31 12:56 pm (UTC)*would like to hear Karl Urban say that line*
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Date: 2010-06-02 10:18 pm (UTC)"Spock's Brain" got infinitely better (for a certain value of better) for me when my roommate and I decided it should be redone as "Kirk's Cock" since it is the obvious equivalent and surprisingly easy to keep all the dialogue the same.
Season three, in general, is just... sad. Never more so really than when a good episode happens, and you remember they exist.
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Date: 2010-06-08 03:02 am (UTC)Every few years, I reread Price. And then I reread Fate, and then I am sorry. Last time, I put a note in the end of Price to just stop there, no matter how good an idea it seems at the time to read the next one.
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