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petroniaStill watching old Star Trek episodes, slowly. XD;
S01E08 Balance of Terror: "Quiet on the bridge, the Romulans will hear us!"
NO
NO THEY WILL NOT HEAR YOU
EDIT: other than above egregious physics fail, this was a really good ep! I am a sucker for the tragic manly warrior bonding nonsense I guess. This also demonstrates why Romulans are called Romulans (which is not readily apparent from later iterations), although it doesn't explain why humans call them that when they had no idea what they looked like let alone how they dressed. XD; Maybe it's the big-ass eagle they paint on their ships.
..........Why the heck does Romulus have Earth-looking birds of prey?
ಠ_ಠ
S1E09 What Little Girls Are Made Of: I was saying to Subdee that one of the most salient characteristics of TOS!Kirk is nerdery. So far he hasn't gotten into trouble because of women; women are how he gets out of trouble. What gets him into trouble is FANBOYING OVER SCIENTISTS. Invariably said scientists turn out to be ME GO TOO FAR! ME AM PLAY GODS!! I'm not sure what the creators are trying to say. XD;
I like how the pr0n version of Andrea's outfit is less revealing as the Hustler crew apparently couldn't figure out how the original was constructed. True couture genius.
S01E10 Dagger of the Mind: like the Gary Mitchell one in that I'm really not sure what you're supposed to assume Helen Noel is thinking. The way that I parse it is that Kirk is so obviously reluctant to deal with her, talking over her to shut her down etc., that she just starts messing with him (and she is at times borderline unprofessional during the mission). She's very effective w/r/t "action" stuff and is genuinely upset when Kirk is made to fall in love with her, which suggests she came up with her imaginary seduction scenario for teh lulz. Which... >_> One suspects Kirk was no match for her at the Christmas party.
S01E11 Miri: it's worth noting that nowadays the networks would risk an interracial makeout or a gay crew member, but they wouldn't risk this. I do think that's the prudery du jour: it's silly to treat a tweenager's crush on an adult - which Kirk handles as reasonably as possible - in the same way as one would treat a toddler masturbating (which also happens in the wonderland known as Real Life), although I wouldn't give it the undertone of wistful romantic untouchability a la David Hamilton that was perfectly acceptable at the time. XD; Luckily one can always turn to the Japanese, who even now must assume the indispensibleness of a visit to Planet Loli.
S01E13 The Galileo Seven: Session 1 of Star Trek: The Leadership Seminar. >_> Some of this is otm, some of it beggars belief in order to belabour the main point - it would be a wonderful thing indeed if acting in accordance with logic meant people/things other than oneself were constrained to act logically as well; Spock works with McCoy, though, so I'm not buying that as his initial hypothesis. In any case, Spock is only 1% of the dick that counsellor dude was. Srsly, you would think he was the one having a giant Neolithic stone implement shoved up his butt. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate, know what I'm sayin'.
Meanwhile there's no offending Scotty in his delicate emotions, but he's an engineer after all.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
There is no "I" in "team"; nor is there an "I" in "assraped by badly thrown spear."
On a different tip, I thought Shatner was really good here, even though the only thing he did for the entire episode was Look Worried. XD; That is sort of the thing, though: you see Kirk under emotional duress in previous episodes, similarly clamping down hard in order to keep going, but you don't get a moment where it all rushes to the surface. Here you get that, and it's quiet.
S01E14 Court Martial: I thought I was doing well because I hadn't been Derailed By Gawking for, oh, about 8-9 eps? But it just happened again, because oh my gawd is that girl wearing a FUTURISTIC SAILOR FUKU yes she is Kirk is being wailed on by a kougakusei in a shiny futuristic sailor fuku. Court martial, you don't say.
...I'll be back once I've watched the actual episode.
LATER: "Shore Leave" was not a fluke, Bones is deffo the smoothest one with the ladies. @_@ idek maybe this is stylistic preference, like Kirk's thing is he looks at you like he's completely smitten and generating this adoring glow (which I'm starting to suspect is actually one of the more arcane 60's lighting effects rather than something Shatner is projecting), whereas McCoy just puts across that you have brightened up his day considerably by being an attractive lady in his immediate vicinity. It's disarming because you don't get the sense he expects you to do anything, even when he asks straight out. Not gonna lie I can see how someone would marry then divorce this guy, the surliness doesn't show at all at the initial dating stage. XD;;
Very good ep with essentially nothing of the 23rd century about it. brb lol 4evr at all the COMPUTERS ARE INFALLIBLE flailing, gentlemen I would like to introduce you to a quaint 21st century artifact known as Final Cut Pro, you may have heard of it
Sailor fuku aside lieutenant lawyer chick's paisley thing was reasonably non-fug IMO, I'd wear it to a party. Lieutenant lawyer herself also entirely sensible vis relationship with Kirk which apparently constitutes an awesome lost weekend every 2 yrs 7 mths punctuating a high-flown career at Starfleet JAG.
No episode 12 since I wrote a rambly essay on it weeks ago.
S01E08 Balance of Terror: "Quiet on the bridge, the Romulans will hear us!"
NO
NO THEY WILL NOT HEAR YOU
EDIT: other than above egregious physics fail, this was a really good ep! I am a sucker for the tragic manly warrior bonding nonsense I guess. This also demonstrates why Romulans are called Romulans (which is not readily apparent from later iterations), although it doesn't explain why humans call them that when they had no idea what they looked like let alone how they dressed. XD; Maybe it's the big-ass eagle they paint on their ships.
..........Why the heck does Romulus have Earth-looking birds of prey?
ಠ_ಠ
S1E09 What Little Girls Are Made Of: I was saying to Subdee that one of the most salient characteristics of TOS!Kirk is nerdery. So far he hasn't gotten into trouble because of women; women are how he gets out of trouble. What gets him into trouble is FANBOYING OVER SCIENTISTS. Invariably said scientists turn out to be ME GO TOO FAR! ME AM PLAY GODS!! I'm not sure what the creators are trying to say. XD;
I like how the pr0n version of Andrea's outfit is less revealing as the Hustler crew apparently couldn't figure out how the original was constructed. True couture genius.
S01E10 Dagger of the Mind: like the Gary Mitchell one in that I'm really not sure what you're supposed to assume Helen Noel is thinking. The way that I parse it is that Kirk is so obviously reluctant to deal with her, talking over her to shut her down etc., that she just starts messing with him (and she is at times borderline unprofessional during the mission). She's very effective w/r/t "action" stuff and is genuinely upset when Kirk is made to fall in love with her, which suggests she came up with her imaginary seduction scenario for teh lulz. Which... >_> One suspects Kirk was no match for her at the Christmas party.
S01E11 Miri: it's worth noting that nowadays the networks would risk an interracial makeout or a gay crew member, but they wouldn't risk this. I do think that's the prudery du jour: it's silly to treat a tweenager's crush on an adult - which Kirk handles as reasonably as possible - in the same way as one would treat a toddler masturbating (which also happens in the wonderland known as Real Life), although I wouldn't give it the undertone of wistful romantic untouchability a la David Hamilton that was perfectly acceptable at the time. XD; Luckily one can always turn to the Japanese, who even now must assume the indispensibleness of a visit to Planet Loli.
S01E13 The Galileo Seven: Session 1 of Star Trek: The Leadership Seminar. >_> Some of this is otm, some of it beggars belief in order to belabour the main point - it would be a wonderful thing indeed if acting in accordance with logic meant people/things other than oneself were constrained to act logically as well; Spock works with McCoy, though, so I'm not buying that as his initial hypothesis. In any case, Spock is only 1% of the dick that counsellor dude was. Srsly, you would think he was the one having a giant Neolithic stone implement shoved up his butt. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate, know what I'm sayin'.
Meanwhile there's no offending Scotty in his delicate emotions, but he's an engineer after all.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
There is no "I" in "team"; nor is there an "I" in "assraped by badly thrown spear."
On a different tip, I thought Shatner was really good here, even though the only thing he did for the entire episode was Look Worried. XD; That is sort of the thing, though: you see Kirk under emotional duress in previous episodes, similarly clamping down hard in order to keep going, but you don't get a moment where it all rushes to the surface. Here you get that, and it's quiet.
S01E14 Court Martial: I thought I was doing well because I hadn't been Derailed By Gawking for, oh, about 8-9 eps? But it just happened again, because oh my gawd is that girl wearing a FUTURISTIC SAILOR FUKU yes she is Kirk is being wailed on by a kougakusei in a shiny futuristic sailor fuku. Court martial, you don't say.
...I'll be back once I've watched the actual episode.
LATER: "Shore Leave" was not a fluke, Bones is deffo the smoothest one with the ladies. @_@ idek maybe this is stylistic preference, like Kirk's thing is he looks at you like he's completely smitten and generating this adoring glow (which I'm starting to suspect is actually one of the more arcane 60's lighting effects rather than something Shatner is projecting), whereas McCoy just puts across that you have brightened up his day considerably by being an attractive lady in his immediate vicinity. It's disarming because you don't get the sense he expects you to do anything, even when he asks straight out. Not gonna lie I can see how someone would marry then divorce this guy, the surliness doesn't show at all at the initial dating stage. XD;;
Very good ep with essentially nothing of the 23rd century about it. brb lol 4evr at all the COMPUTERS ARE INFALLIBLE flailing, gentlemen I would like to introduce you to a quaint 21st century artifact known as Final Cut Pro, you may have heard of it
Sailor fuku aside lieutenant lawyer chick's paisley thing was reasonably non-fug IMO, I'd wear it to a party. Lieutenant lawyer herself also entirely sensible vis relationship with Kirk which apparently constitutes an awesome lost weekend every 2 yrs 7 mths punctuating a high-flown career at Starfleet JAG.
No episode 12 since I wrote a rambly essay on it weeks ago.
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Date: 2009-12-03 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-03 12:28 pm (UTC)Half the sentient alien species they meet look entirely human, up to and including their history paralleling (mostly Western) Earth's, and you're pondering the biology of raptors? Given the preponderance of convergent evolution in the Star Trek universe, I'd find alien avians more surprising! XDDD
I love these mini-reviews, they're just so fond. And make me want to rewatch the show as I believe I've seen all the eps but don't remember half of them at all...
There is no "I" in "team"; nor is there an "I" in "assraped by badly thrown spear."
*literal LOL*
are you using logic what are you some kinda Vulcan
Date: 2009-12-03 10:49 pm (UTC)(Where is the chocobo crackfic, is what I'm asking. But isn't it all crackfic really?)
I'll be continuing, slowly. XD These get posted on DW sooner, actually, but also sometimes out of order.
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Date: 2009-12-04 02:42 pm (UTC)I always wonder about the ಠ_ಠ emoticon; it comes off to me as a kind of traumatized perplexity, the expression that might accompany a "but why would you do such a thing????" but I dunno. Is that how you deploy it? XD;;
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Date: 2009-12-04 07:33 pm (UTC)