Comments on: “Requiem for Methuselah” Remastered Review + Video & Screenshots

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:59:41 +0000

Rayna…..that’s wonderful. I hope you’re a fan of Star Trek like your mum? It’s certainly a beautiful name…I’m sure you do it justice. LOL…if I’d been a girl, my mum wanted to call me Samantha….from Bewitched!!! Your mum had much better taste….although my mum did watch Star Trek as she fancied the pants off Kirk. In the end, I turned up as a boy….and my dad got his wish that I was named Matthew….after Sir Matt Busby….the legendary manager of Manchester United – which is a complete honour for me, as I’m a huge fan of Manchester United, just like my dad. Still, I’m just a bit little jealous of your Star Trek name…although I’m glad I’m not a ‘James Tiberius’. :)

By: Rayna

Rayna — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:45:02 +0000

This is where my name came from – Thanks mom!

By: Higgs Boson

Higgs Boson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:31:35 +0000

This episode is actually a disappointment for me. I think the story is weak because the characters Flint and Kirk act in a highly improbable way. For Kirk, thinking with his little head (by aggressively chasing the android woman) and insulting his host (and his subordinates) in the process suddenly is more important than investigating the wonders of meeting a person who has lived for more than 6000 years and who has seen humanity rise from a bunch of savages to a space faring people. And who even was a part of that history himself.
And for the same token, for such a large historic character, Flint himself also behaves highly improbable: getting into silly rolling fights with Kirk, turning into an immature adolescent plagued by jealousy. And all that silliness is fought over an android who Flint could easily re-create if he wanted to, just like he did with the robot M4 when it became necessary.

Not my most favorite Star Trek episode at all. The basic concept of the immortal being Flint is compelling though; the writers lost out on a chance to turn this into a much better story.

By: Commodore Z

Commodore Z — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:45:57 +0000

#108: Some years ago, the Sci Fi Channel did this with TOS. They ran the episodes uncut in a 90 minute timeslot, and they added about 15 minutes of interviews with the actors and writers and such to fill out the rest of the period. I thought it was great, but it didn’t last too long, unfortunately.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:15:32 +0000

Does that make M4 a sort of mechanized Calaban?

By: Engon

Engon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:59:03 +0000

“Rayna” might also be a corruption of “Miranda,” Prospero’s daughter in “The Tempest.”

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:03:44 +0000

This episode was cheesy in so many ways. My favorite line was, “Don’t interfere Spock, we’re fighting for our woman!” (or something like that) I saw all the original episodes in reruns during the 70’s. I’m pretty sure they didn’t air the bad ones as often.

By: Daoud

Daoud — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:45:43 +0000

If only they’d release “full cut” versions that would occupy a late night 85-minute timeslot. Most stations are running these in the wee hours anyway. You’d think CBS could package a 2-hour block (less the 5 minutes that local news used with Leno and Letterman starting late), with a sitcom like Cheers in the lead 30 minutes, and Star Trek taking the 90. The way they stretch things with commercials and all, it could work.

This episode is the perfect example of terrible cuts.

They want 40 minutes of program in a 60 minute block now, and this has just butchered Star Trek. I’d like to see the CBS-R team have been given an extra 15 seconds here or there, just to insert some more graphics… and include the “Next on Star Trek vignettes”.

Glad someone clarified the Kapec ^Capek connection… but I’ve always noted the “Rayna” too… meaning her name is in a way “Queen” of the Capek Robots.

The name of the planet being Holberg has always fascinated. I wonder if the author meant to evoke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg
“Holberg was both unmarried and childless, but in the end of his life had a small fortune.”

He’s definitely a candidate for those who think Flint only *claimed* to have been a number of the famous people, and new them from being close to them and perhaps “influencing” them. So, in this interpretation, Flint left a big clue in the name of the planet’s system.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:33:53 +0000

I sure wish the red and green navigational lights on top blinked a lot brighter, as I really miss that….

The matte is really good however.

By: jeannie Spock

jeannie Spock — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:38:21 +0000

Thank God I don’t live in the US – cutting out McCoy’s last scene is diabolical.
I believe they cut the scene in Amok Time where Chapel visits Spock in his cabin too – one of the most dramatic and telling scenes of the series.

At least here in the UK we seem to get the full episodes (of the old versions anyway). I am sure they won’t cut any of the remastered versions when they eventually decide to air them.