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connielane at 07:27am on 08/06/2012
connielane at 07:27am on 08/06/2012Jumping ahead to the movies for a sec, for the sake of the 1982-ness of my summer, but not before a couple more episodes bring me to another iconic Trek race.
25/24 - THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
- Oh, Bones and Spock, you crazy kids. When will you just make out, already?
- LOL the couldn't-be-more-obvious camera zoom on Spock when Leila appears.
- You know, I imagine there were a lot of Spock fangirls before this episode aired, but I'll bet there were a LOT MORE after it aired. There's something about seeing a character who is anti-romantic being suddenly romantic.
- I had a Forrest Gump flashback when Spock was hanging upside down from the tree branch. "She taught me how to dangle!"
- LMAO Bones and his mint julep!
- There's a lot of silly in this episode, but I really loved it. Especially Spock's bittersweet realization that he'd been happy for the first time in his life. Oh dear, am I becoming a Spock fangirl?
26/25 - THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
- First of all, the creature in this episode is the MOST HILARIOUS THING I'VE EVER SEEN. Wait, maybe not more hilarious than the dog in an "alien dog" costume from "The Enemy Within." But seriously, it looked like Fraggle Rock's Trash Heap with ketchup and mustard drizzled all over it!
- Sad-larious special effects aside, I genuinely enjoyed this episode. Great stuff with Kirk and Spock and McCoy. It was so bromance-y!
- Speaking of bromance, Spock's unwillingness to be separated from Kirk was so slashy I could hardly stand it. I'm not one of those people who sees slash everywhere, but man, it's hard not to with this show! I'm guessing this is not news to most of the rest of you.
- I loved the reveal of why the Horta had attacked and the resolution. This isn't the first (or probably the last) time that a perceived villain is revealed to be more than meets the eye.
- Hee! McCoy was so proud of himself for figuring out how to heal the Horta.
27/26 - ERRAND OF MERCY
- Bring on the Klingons! (Rhyme was totally intentional.)
- This was another good episode, and maybe the most ironic title so far.
- Spock was very good at pretending to be a merchant; Kirk's performance as a regular citizen was not so great.
- Kirk and Kor looked like such children in the climactic non-battle. "Why won't you let us fight and kill each other, waaaaaah!?" Kirk clearly saw it that way eventually, too.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
- My DVD started with a five-minute drift through a starfield. No menu, just stars and stars and stars and ..... zzzzzzzzz -- oh hey, the movie's finally starting.
- I'm not sure what's worse - Nimoy's hippie hair or Shatner's perm. Uhura's fro-mullet (frullet?) is kind of scary, too.
- Wow, this movie is chock full of looooooooooong shots. I have a feeling this movie could have been about 90 minutes long if it weren't for things like that needlessly slow first look at the Enterprise. Good thing the music was so great in that scene that I almost forgot about it.
- Bones, what IS that on your face?!?! You look like a bear!
- Hey, the other captain is Seventh Heaven Dad!
- Kirk's obsession with having control over the Enterprise was a little annoying, and while I guess Spock had a reason for being there, this felt like a poor excuse for "getting the band back together."
- I did like the V'Ger plot, and that's the kind of story that could only be told on film.
- However, I had to laugh at the whole "join with the Creator" thing. That's the kind of thing that actually *doesn't* work on film. Maybe in a novel or something, but on film there's just no way to take it seriously.
- No matter what faults there are in the movie, Jerry Goldsmith's score is flawless, especially that main theme. Was this where the world first heard that theme? Didn't it go on to be the theme for TNG and pretty much all the other Trek shows? I have a fondness for the original theme, but this one has so much more wonder and majesty that's so much more fitting for adventures in space. Very influenced by John Williams's Star Wars score, I think. It also must have been the chief inspiration for the Galaxy Quest theme.
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
- Okay, huddle up, movie. Chekov was not a part of the Enterprise crew when we met Khan. I'm not sure how he's introduced in the second season (maybe, like so many other crew members, it's just as if they've been there the whole time and we've just never seen them?), but regardless, Khan had no interaction with Chekov whatsoever when he was on the Enterprise, and he and his gang have been stranded on Ceti Alpha V ever since (right?). So the whole thing about remembering his face loses whatever weight it might have had if it had been someone else who *was* there. [/pedantic]
- Other than that, though, OMG THIS IS LIGHT YEARS BETTER THAN THE FIRST MOVIE.
- Love the reveal of Khan, making everyone wait while he removed all his face covering. Ricardo Montalban is SUCH a scenery chewer! Perfect foil for Shatner.
- So Genesis is basically ... a really good version of terra-forming? Ah well, I guess there's more to it than that, especially given what's hinted at in the last shot.
- This was just a good, solid action adventure and amazing storytelling. Good, credible, threatening villain. Fairly believable defensive tactics by the good guys. A good low point for the heroes, stranded on the dead planet ("KHAAAAAAN!" Sorry, but you know that has to happen whenever you talk about this movie.). And a good resolution brought about by meaningful sacrifice. No offense to Dekker from the first movie, but it meant so much more for it to be a character we'd been heavily invested in. And I love how Spock just calmly gets up from his chair to go to the engine room, like it's no big whoop.
- Yes, I cried. SPOCK FANGIRL FOR LIFE.
- Once they established the hopeful possibility that the Genesis technology could bring Spock back, I was hoping they wouldn't do some cheesy reveal where we see his eyes open. Thankfully, they spared us that and ended on just the right note. The "coffin" is on the newly born planet and ... hey, it could happen. Wonderful ending.
- I find myself really sad that there's no longer a Star Trek Experience in Vegas. I went a few years ago, but at that point I'd only seen a few episodes and the magic was totally lost on me.
- Oh dear, I've converted, haven't I?
25/24 - THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
- Oh, Bones and Spock, you crazy kids. When will you just make out, already?
- LOL the couldn't-be-more-obvious camera zoom on Spock when Leila appears.
- You know, I imagine there were a lot of Spock fangirls before this episode aired, but I'll bet there were a LOT MORE after it aired. There's something about seeing a character who is anti-romantic being suddenly romantic.
- I had a Forrest Gump flashback when Spock was hanging upside down from the tree branch. "She taught me how to dangle!"
- LMAO Bones and his mint julep!
- There's a lot of silly in this episode, but I really loved it. Especially Spock's bittersweet realization that he'd been happy for the first time in his life. Oh dear, am I becoming a Spock fangirl?
26/25 - THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
- First of all, the creature in this episode is the MOST HILARIOUS THING I'VE EVER SEEN. Wait, maybe not more hilarious than the dog in an "alien dog" costume from "The Enemy Within." But seriously, it looked like Fraggle Rock's Trash Heap with ketchup and mustard drizzled all over it!
- Sad-larious special effects aside, I genuinely enjoyed this episode. Great stuff with Kirk and Spock and McCoy. It was so bromance-y!
- Speaking of bromance, Spock's unwillingness to be separated from Kirk was so slashy I could hardly stand it. I'm not one of those people who sees slash everywhere, but man, it's hard not to with this show! I'm guessing this is not news to most of the rest of you.
- I loved the reveal of why the Horta had attacked and the resolution. This isn't the first (or probably the last) time that a perceived villain is revealed to be more than meets the eye.
- Hee! McCoy was so proud of himself for figuring out how to heal the Horta.
27/26 - ERRAND OF MERCY
- Bring on the Klingons! (Rhyme was totally intentional.)
- This was another good episode, and maybe the most ironic title so far.
- Spock was very good at pretending to be a merchant; Kirk's performance as a regular citizen was not so great.
- Kirk and Kor looked like such children in the climactic non-battle. "Why won't you let us fight and kill each other, waaaaaah!?" Kirk clearly saw it that way eventually, too.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
- My DVD started with a five-minute drift through a starfield. No menu, just stars and stars and stars and ..... zzzzzzzzz -- oh hey, the movie's finally starting.
- I'm not sure what's worse - Nimoy's hippie hair or Shatner's perm. Uhura's fro-mullet (frullet?) is kind of scary, too.
- Wow, this movie is chock full of looooooooooong shots. I have a feeling this movie could have been about 90 minutes long if it weren't for things like that needlessly slow first look at the Enterprise. Good thing the music was so great in that scene that I almost forgot about it.
- Bones, what IS that on your face?!?! You look like a bear!
- Hey, the other captain is Seventh Heaven Dad!
- Kirk's obsession with having control over the Enterprise was a little annoying, and while I guess Spock had a reason for being there, this felt like a poor excuse for "getting the band back together."
- I did like the V'Ger plot, and that's the kind of story that could only be told on film.
- However, I had to laugh at the whole "join with the Creator" thing. That's the kind of thing that actually *doesn't* work on film. Maybe in a novel or something, but on film there's just no way to take it seriously.
- No matter what faults there are in the movie, Jerry Goldsmith's score is flawless, especially that main theme. Was this where the world first heard that theme? Didn't it go on to be the theme for TNG and pretty much all the other Trek shows? I have a fondness for the original theme, but this one has so much more wonder and majesty that's so much more fitting for adventures in space. Very influenced by John Williams's Star Wars score, I think. It also must have been the chief inspiration for the Galaxy Quest theme.
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
- Okay, huddle up, movie. Chekov was not a part of the Enterprise crew when we met Khan. I'm not sure how he's introduced in the second season (maybe, like so many other crew members, it's just as if they've been there the whole time and we've just never seen them?), but regardless, Khan had no interaction with Chekov whatsoever when he was on the Enterprise, and he and his gang have been stranded on Ceti Alpha V ever since (right?). So the whole thing about remembering his face loses whatever weight it might have had if it had been someone else who *was* there. [/pedantic]
- Other than that, though, OMG THIS IS LIGHT YEARS BETTER THAN THE FIRST MOVIE.
- Love the reveal of Khan, making everyone wait while he removed all his face covering. Ricardo Montalban is SUCH a scenery chewer! Perfect foil for Shatner.
- So Genesis is basically ... a really good version of terra-forming? Ah well, I guess there's more to it than that, especially given what's hinted at in the last shot.
- This was just a good, solid action adventure and amazing storytelling. Good, credible, threatening villain. Fairly believable defensive tactics by the good guys. A good low point for the heroes, stranded on the dead planet ("KHAAAAAAN!" Sorry, but you know that has to happen whenever you talk about this movie.). And a good resolution brought about by meaningful sacrifice. No offense to Dekker from the first movie, but it meant so much more for it to be a character we'd been heavily invested in. And I love how Spock just calmly gets up from his chair to go to the engine room, like it's no big whoop.
- Yes, I cried. SPOCK FANGIRL FOR LIFE.
- Once they established the hopeful possibility that the Genesis technology could bring Spock back, I was hoping they wouldn't do some cheesy reveal where we see his eyes open. Thankfully, they spared us that and ended on just the right note. The "coffin" is on the newly born planet and ... hey, it could happen. Wonderful ending.
- I find myself really sad that there's no longer a Star Trek Experience in Vegas. I went a few years ago, but at that point I'd only seen a few episodes and the magic was totally lost on me.
- Oh dear, I've converted, haven't I?