Comments on: “Whom Gods Destroy” Remastered: Review + Screenshots & Video [UPDATED]

By: nx-2000

nx-2000 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:28:37 +0000

*Garth himself became one of my favorite characters”* – sorry!

By: nx-2000

nx-2000 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:26:56 +0000

#102 – Garth of Izar is actually my favorite Star Trek novel, especially since it gave Captain Garth such a detailed, realistic, and honorable portrayal and Garth himself one of my favorite characters. You get to see the man Garth really is, and as Admiral Mendez notes, Kirk really did take Garth as a model; his unconventional brilliance, his wiliness, and his willingness to bend or even break the rules to do the right thing were traits that he essentially picked up from Garth. When you see Kirk and Garth working together in the novel, it really does seem like Kirk is a younger version of his hero, the Garth of his generation.

I was also deeply touched by Garth’s reflections on his life in Starfleet and whether or not he’d outgrown the service, because it’s very much like how many veterans in the real-life military ponder the service that they had given so much to, and had believed so much in – the sacrifices and achievements that had sapped so much from them over the course of decades, something that, for Garth, weighs down even harder because of his added burden of guilt. The novel was a great way to bring his story full-circle, and give him an end that he deserved.

By: Chris Dalton

Chris Dalton — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:36:42 +0000

Steve Ihnat was one of the best character actor’s that graced both late Sixties and early Seventies Cinema and Television. WHOM GODS DESTROY was an excellent Star Trek episode, and in my opinion, certainly better than the first season dud DAGGER OF THE MIND(which WGD has been constantly compared with over four decades).

Ihnat’s performance as Garth Of Izar was really multi-dimensional and real. At first I had him mistaken for singer/actor Andy Williams(since Steve did resemble him). He just had the ability to make a character real and convincing with that marvelous speaking voice he once had. You could tell that he was clearly enjoying the role and having fun acting it out.

Definately one of the best Star Trek episodes and one that produced a sequel from Pocket Books back in 2002 called GARTH OF IZAR.

If you haven’t read the sequel, check it out. It’s worth the read.

By: Caroline Miniscule

Caroline Miniscule — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:46:40 +0000

oh, forgot to say, if people are interested in a background story on Garth of Izar, and why his madness took the form it took, check out

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5285991/1/The_Madness_of_Garth_of_Izar

and for a few rewritten scenes from the episode itself…

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5278799/1/Whom_Love_Destroys

By: Caroline Miniscule

Caroline Miniscule — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:42:24 +0000

I also am a big fan of Steve Ihnat’s. He certainly does play this role very flamboyantly…perhaps because there was a brand new director at the helm who let the actors do whatever they wanted. Watch any other Ihant performance, he’s usually much more subdued. His Mission Impossible episodes are classics. There’s a tribute website to him, called Brief Candle.

As for Yvonne Craig’s “chunkiness” – get real. There was a funny news article a couple of days ago. Pot bellies are “in” for men, now. But of course if a woman isn’t a bag of bones, she’s fat.

By: Loop

Loop — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:45:32 +0000

I can’t figure why folks have it in for the third season. The worst show of all the original series is ‘The Alternative Factor’, which is just embarrassingly stupid. Misused terms, completely pointless
and meandering logic-free script. Whom Gods Destroy used to annoy me when I was a kid but now I kind of like it because Steve Ihnat is so charismatic. I remember watching it and thinking, “how come this guy isn’t a bigger star?” The answer was because he was DEAD. He died in 1972 or something. Ed Asner made some speech about him at the Emmy Awards that year, what a great guy he was. People out in the audience dabbing their eyes: oh we lost another genius. Screaming pot smokers at the after-party: “He was brilliant” (imagine the word ‘brilliant’ in italics cause I’m too lazy to see if I can do it on this web page)

By: Captain Archer

Captain Archer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:00:56 +0000

“why do the old screenshots always look superior?”

What are you smoking? The original Enterprise had an identity crisis in the original shots. Im a pilot E! No a series E! Wait? GRRRRR

By: Engon

Engon — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:42:15 +0000

Check out this image. That is not Shatner, it’s his stunt double…

tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3×14/Whom_Gods_Destroy_348.JPG

Compare to this image of Baxley…

memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Freeman.jpg

By: Engon

Engon — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:36:54 +0000

95.

If it’s Paul Baxley, he looks a lot more like Shatner in this episode than he did in “Trouble with Tribbles.”

By: neonknights

neonknights — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:30:39 +0000

80.

Shatner’s stunt double in this episode was Paul Baxley, a regular stand-in for Shatner who played Ensign Freeman in “The Trouble with Tribbles” and other smaller roles throughout the series.