Comments on: It’s Playtime For The ‘And The Children Shall Lead’ Preview

By: Fidgit

Fidgit — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:04:26 +0000

OK, here is my 19 (GAWDAWFULS) and why, the worst first:

“The Omega Glory” Two words: E Plebmnista
“The Alternative Factor” Run around, fight, fall off cliff. Repeat.
“Spock’s Brain” Brain and brain, what is brain? Think we all agree here.
“And the Children Shall Lead” Hail Hail Fire and Snow
“The Way to Eden” Herbert!
“Turnabout Intruder” Captain Kirk, Space Queen
“Catspaw” Captain Kiiiiiirrrrk! CaptainKiiiiirrrrkkkk! Leave this place or you shall surely diieiiiieeeeee!
“Miri” Bonk bonk bad kids
“The Apple” Death to all redshirts
“Who Mourns for Adonais” Didn’t like the premise here. Didn’t like it on Stargate either.
“Patterns of Force” – Space Nazis? No thank you.
“Spectre of the Gun” – Space Cowboys? No thank you.
“Bread and Circuses” – Space Romans? No thank you.
“Plato’s Stepchildren” – Space Greeks? No thank you. Pass on the silly dancing, too.
“The Paradise Syndrome” Space Indians? No thank you. “I am Kee-rooooook!”
“That Which Survives” – I am for you, D’Amato
“The Mark of Gideon” – Silly premise and dull. Though the sea of faces scared me as a child.
“Charlie X” – Would’ve sent Charlie out the nearest airlock the moment I saw him

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:23:52 +0000

I don’t understand all the vitriol towards this episode…it’s hardly the worst.

For my money, City On The Edge Of Forever takes that title!

;-)

By: scarpad

scarpad — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:01:18 +0000

It’s just that season 3 had more bad episodes so it stood out. I always thought two were worst than this one, Requiem for Methuselah and Cloud Minders just because they have the main characters way out of Character. Kirk is ready to Give up his ship and career for a woman he meets for 10 min on an alien planet, and then after findingout she’s a robot wants to still do it ?? Huh ? In Cloud Minders the once closed off spock is giving up the details of his Mating Rituals to just any old Bim? He could’nt fess up to Kirk unless it was pried out of him. I always hated these episodes.

By: Shaye

Shaye — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:39:16 +0000

But they got spiffy new shiny uniforms too dont forget!!!

By: Michael Hall

Michael Hall — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:21:06 +0000

“I’m not watching Star Trek for looks, I’m watching it for the story and the characters, and however good the third season looked, the majority of the stories accepted that year were decidedly lacking, and some of the characters (esp. Spock) were getting totally butchered.”

Actually, on balance the third season didn’t even look all that good. Yes, the Enterprise minature shots looked their best that year, and yes, we finally got a Klingon cruiser. And the bridge and other standing sets were at their highest level of detail for the series’ run, since they were always adding new things to those sets as time and budget permitted. But the trimmed episodic budgets still showed all too often in the new sets and FX, including re-used mattes and endlessly recycled control panels. Elaborate sets, props and even location shooting were a rarity. Worst of all, cinematographer Jerry Finnerman left the show at the end of the second year, and Al Francis couldn’t even come close to capturing his rich textures and lighting schemes. In the first and second years episodes like “Balance of Terror” and “The Doomsday Machine” look and feel like small SF movies; in the third the series looks like just another action-adventure hour of television.

By: Shaye

Shaye — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:13:58 +0000

….”Hail hail…fire and snow…call the angels…we will go…far away…far to see…friendly angel…come to me!”

I LOVE Shatner and Spock in the turbo lift!

great scene from a great episode!

By: Kyle Nin

Kyle Nin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:07:52 +0000

StarTrek.com has a remastered picture of Gorgan from the episode on their website. It’s just to show how the remastered version looks sharper in both detail and color. It’s not exactly a “new” effect, just a sharper version of the original.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/TOS/article/28095.html

By: Jim J (Empath liker)

Jim J (Empath liker) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:27:37 +0000

Good observations, Jim (#140)! I just wanted to put up my name a different way, for once-LOL!!!

By: Jim (Empath Hater)

Jim (Empath Hater) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:00:58 +0000

129 – Uh, actually yes, they really were that bad. Most of those on my bottom five I saw for the first time long before TNG or any other spinoff started, and I didn’t like them then either. My history with TOS is pretty black-and-white; most episodes I tended to either like or dislike immediately, and my opinion rarely changed with subsequent viewings. The only one I can think of where I’ve drastically changed my opinion since the first time I saw it is “Whom Gods Destroy,” which I initially didn’t like but now ranks up there as another one of my “guilty pleasures,” thanks mostly to Steve Ihnat. I also like “Lights of Zetar” better than I used to, but that’s only because the possession scenes with the glowing faces and garbled speech used to scare the $%&@ out of me as a kid. It’s still not one I feel like watching very often, but I’m not as actively hostile towards it as I used to be.

130 – I’m not watching Star Trek for looks, I’m watching it for the story and the characters, and however good the third season looked, the majority of the stories accepted that year were decidedly lacking, and some of the characters (esp. Spock) were getting totally butchered.

131 – Hi Jim! Nice to meet you!

By: Dr. Beverly Crusher

Dr. Beverly Crusher — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:53:08 +0000

Clearly it is all Will Wheton/Wesley Crusher’s fault for the demise of Star Trek TOS…during it’s Third Season in 1969.

He has bashed William Shatner since 1996 when he did not like the way Shatner signed his autograph and sent the snivling kid on his way.

…”Shut up, Wesley!” – The Ent-D’s crew’s fave reply/comment to that ever annoying Wesley Crusher.

;-)