I guess I didn’t find that *aspect* of the film disappointing, just the casting choice and subsequent performance. The Sarek/Spock scenes were great, but were also the only ones where I found myself wanting an actor that captured the ’soul’ of the character- thinking back to Mark Lenard’s super performances on TNG, where he was so full of regret and heartache (albeit in his dotage/senility), I wished for a bit of that to show through via Ben Cross- imagine if he had chosen to show a bit more, dare I say it, emotion- you’re right in noting that his wife and planet were freshly gone; if he had shared some of that visible pain, and connected with Spock on that level, those scenes would have been just beautiful.

Really? I found it to be a perfectly fitting metaphor.

But… I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I never understood Spocks muttering of “thrusters on full” to himself/the audience. It seems an odd thing for Spock to say and it conveys nothing really to the audience.

Thank you. I know a lot of TOS fans hate “The Lights of Zetar” but it is one of my favourite episodes. Actually, Mira is described as a brilliant technician in the the episode and in the novel “Memory Prime” In the novel she comes across as more than an intellectual match for Scotty. Brilliant people are often misunderstood and are often characterized as a little strange. It isn’t uncommon for brilliant and perhaps nerdy people to have difficulty meeting others they can relate to. This is often true of the opposite sex. My huband and I didn’t get married until we were in our late forties. They are thought to be nerdy, geeky, or just plain eccentric. I think Scotty is just a bit shy and sensitive but covers it up by behaving like a wisecracking smart arse. This seems to be more true in this timeline than in TOS. Remeber from the episode that Mira is also a telepath. I think her special abilities made Scotty care about her even more. In the original timeline they never married because of their Starfleet careers. I always thought they spent their free time together as much as possible. I hope they get married and possibly have childen in this timeline. Perhaps in a ST-09 comic/graphic novel or even a novelisation.

Nice list, #58. But how’d Odo get on there..? That is, unless you count his “marriage” to Lwaxana Troi in “The Muse”…

* Henry Archer
* Richard Bashir
* Benaren
* Jack Crusher
* Data
* Magnus Hansen
* Paul Howard
* Admiral Janeway
* Kela
* Keldar
* John Kim
* Kira Taban
* George Kirk
* George Samuel Kirk
* James T. Kirk
* Kolopak
* Edward M. La Forge
* Captain Mayweather
* David McCoy
* Leonard McCoy
* Mogh
* Michael O’Brien
* Miles O’Brien
* Odo
* Owen Paris
* Tom Paris
* Phlox
* Maurice Picard
* Robert Picard
* Stuart Reed
* Kyle Riker
* Rom
* Nikolai Rozhenko
* Sergey Rozhenko
* Sarek
* Mr. Sato
* Sek
* Benjamin Sisko
* Joseph Sisko
* Noonien Soong
* Hikaru Sulu
* John Torres
* Ian Andrew Troi
* Charles Tucker II
* Charles Tucker III
* Tuvok
* Worf
* Lewis Zimmerman