Week 13

This last week was a bitter sweet one. I finished all episodes of TOS. That's right, all of them. While I will miss watching Season 3 Kirk holding in his gut, I am also excited to move onto some new Trek. Well, sort of new. Next up is The Animated Series (TAS). Yes, TAS is a new acronym in my Star Trek vocab. I've never seen a single episode before. Looking forward to it.

This last week of TOS was a pretty good one. It featured some hotties, had cut back on the dramatic camera effects, everyone's hair is back to normal, and the stories are more interesting, even if they are a little Shatner-centric. The Lights of Zetar was notable for it's love interest actually being between Scotty and a girl, even getting in the way of Scotty's only true love, the Enterprise. Requiem for Methuselah has Kirk falling in love with a robot and fighting over it. The Way to Eden had a dumb hippy cult get their bare feet burned by the acid grass of Eden. All Our Yesterdays was a good episode co-starring hotty Mariette Hartley. And finally Turnabout Intruder was a very fun episode just to watch Kirk act like a woman, which I think he did pretty well.

I can see how the show was canceled. The budget had gotten too large while the viewers had shrunk. The sets for the planets in the 3rd season were very elaborate when compared to the simple one room sets of season one. Heck, half the time season one just went to the mountains outside Hollywood to film alien planets.

In any case, TOS, you will be missed.

72. The Lights of Zetar •••
    
73. Requiem for Methuselah ••••
    
74. The Way to Eden ••
    
75. The Cloud Minders ••••
    
76. The Savage Curtain •••
    
77. All Our Yesterdays ••••
    
78. Turnabout Intruder ••••
    

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Week 11 & 12

Been a slow two weeks for my Star Trek fix. It was compounded by the fact that my neighbor tilled up my Comcast connection and so I missed a couple nights, on the weekend no less. So for the past two weeks I've only seen 6 episodes. While the content of this batch of episodes is better than the early Season 3 ones, the art direction is still out of wack. I'm not sure who they hired, but the guy should have worked on some Stanley Kubrick wanna-be, not Star Trek. But in any case, there were a few episodes that were thinly veiled exploration of some issues here on planet Earth, such as racism (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield), overpopulation (The Mark of Gideon), and even political marriage (Elaan of Troyius). Definitely an improvement over the last batch.

66. The Empath •••
    
67. Elaan of Troyius ••••
    
68. Whom Gods Destroy •••
    
69. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ••••
    
70. The Mark of Gideon ••••
    
71. That Which Survives •••
    

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