Comments on: Review: Amok Time Remastered

By: Lou Ligon

Lou Ligon — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:10:59 +0000

I’m aware about this previously, however there was clearly some helpful bits that completed the image for me personally, thanks!

By: dil

dil — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:32:55 +0000

Still disappointed in the edits. Shouldn’t have to sacrifice dialog for the new cgi. Christine never got to tell Spock we are bound for Vulcan. And T’Pau never asked Spock if he was human or Vulcan. Not here, I recorded these shows and watched it (those parts) three times and they were omited. Critical dialog. Still like the shots of the land that Spock’s family has held for two thousand years.

By: Buckaroohawk

Buckaroohawk — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:40:20 +0000

billy (#121 & #123)

Exactly! Saying that DRB’s reviwes aren’t in your taste is fine. No writer has ever won everybody over with their prose. Saying that he is somehow dismantling your ideology with these reviews, however, is another thing entirely. Some people who visit here are just WAY too sensitive.

I take everybody here at face value. I’ve had some great discussions here, and a few dust-ups as well. We’re all fans of Trek. It means a lot to each of us. Sometimes most of us are in agreement, sometimes there are debates, sometimes arguments; but that’s what really makes Star Trek special. It means something a little different to each of us and trekmovie.com is a place where we can expand our horizons a bit. There may be a few who refuse to do that, but in the long run they’re the ones who are missing out.

I’m glad we had this talk, too. Maybe it will spur others to put down their phasers and shake hands.

By: Dennis Bailey

Dennis Bailey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:55:22 +0000

#129:

Thanks. I can’t take too much credit for “First Contact,” though – my writing partner and I did the first draft teleplay and it went through two more drafts by other writers on staff. I think Michael Piller is entitled to the lion’s share of credit for what you saw on screen.

By: Doc Horror

Doc Horror — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:11:45 +0000

The only reviews I care to read are Dennis’ *because* he uses humour/sarcasm.They’re fun….a change of pace, and right on the mark. And lately I’ve just gotten tired of the obsessivness of too much of fandom, especially both Trek and Comics.

Evan Dorkin had it right with Eltingville:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyus5kz8wB0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQTok05ufU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTAGIkYsAdY

Chill out. It’s all just made up stuff.

Dennis, I knew you wrote “Tin Man”, didn’t know you wrote “First Contact”. I remember for years thinking it would be cool to see an ep from the aliens point of view. And it was. Didn’t like that the movie took the name of one of the best eps of the show. Thanks for a great work of Trek!

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:09:34 +0000

by the way I will be on a panel discussion at the upcoming wondercon next month

I will do my best to keep the sarcasm at an appropriate level

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:07 +0000

You’d never get everyone in the room: certain people would complain that the doorman had a sarcastic tone of voice! ;)

By: Dr. Image

Dr. Image — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:17:05 +0000

Anthony, there should be a Trekmovie.com convention and everyone should be locked in a room with baseball bats.
Well, maybe not the latter… but to hear a bunch of fans get into screaming matches, live and in person, WOULD be entertaining…

By: Toonoon

Toonoon — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:59:22 +0000

WHERE’S OPERATION ANIHILATE??

By: YARN

YARN — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:50:03 +0000

“There’s no way that T’Pau would hold McCoy’s little bit of chicanery against Starfleet or the human race, of course. That’s like suggesting that Tony Soprano would whack a guy for talking to the Feds. So, she covers Kirk’s hinder with Starfleet.

Like they were really gonna discipline him just for disobeying direct orders.”

We don’t know when T’Pau requested Enterprise be redirected to Vulcan. It could have been done before she got T’Punked (perhaps Spock issued a personal request to her in a desperate bid to get to Vulcan).

This point aside, one must admitted that the end works out a bit too conveniently. If this ceremony is so big on its honor code that they bring in masked extras from the MadMax to enforce da’ rules, you have to think that she might not respond favorably to being duped by the doc’s doping. If anything, you would think that McCoy would have damaged relations with Vulcan — instead T’Pau issues them a get out of jail free card. Does not seem quite right, does it? Of course, you do have to tie things up at the end of a compartmentalized show like this (unless it is a two parter), but it feels like a Deus ex McCoy.

It would have, perhaps, been better to have established that Kirk was about to be honored with a promotion, title, or medal — and then to have him lose it for playing fast and loose with his orders. The show could end Kirk talking about how he was happy to sacrifice losing that honor (and stalling his career) to help his friend.