Forgetting for a moment they should never have attached a date to the Eugenics Wars, I somehow or other find this episode nowhere near as compelling as I once did, seeing as how I know how everything is going to turn out in another few years.
*“Doctor McCoy is frankly amazed at his [Khan’s] physical and recuperative power.” *I’d be amazed too if I found someone who hadn’t had a whiz or a dump in 200 years. What, bodily functions cease entirely during suspended animation? Or was Khan just wearing a pair of maximum absorbency Depends?
How many historians are there in this world who are hot females brimming with hormones, and how come I’ve never met one? :dubious:
Hot female psychiatrists (Helen Noel)
Hot female lawyers (Ariel Shaw)
Hot female yeoman who have an alternative universe “arrangement” with their captains (Marlena Moreau)
Hot female ex-girlfriends who became batcrap crazy (Janice Lester)
And, of course, hot female social workers (Edith Keeler)
The key word in my question was “entirely.” Over 200 years, **something **has to, uhm, “trickle down.” Otherwise, what you’ve got is a corpse. (Note that their hearts were still beating, albeit slowly.)
I especially loved the “painfully obvious stunt doubles” fight scene in the Engine Room, though I was a little disappointed that Kirk didn’t get his tunic torn in this one.
I wonder how many Engine Room fights/confrontations/stand offs there were in the course of the series?
“Court Martial”;
“Space Seed”;
“The Enemy Within” counts, I should think;
“Day of the Dove”…
When I saw it as a kid, I thought Kirk had pulled out a dampening rod from the reactor to beat the hell out of Khan. I wondered if one of the Enterprise reactors would go critical, but I figured Scotty would repair it.
Recent thread touching on the Marla/Khan attraction (and as usual veering off into several other issues with the episode and the show, but coming back to the subject every so often). TL/DR on that subject: She had a thing for the old times when Men Were Men.
With a torn shirt, he would have killed Khan Noonian Sighn, and we would not have had the film that brought Star Trek back, need I name it, The Wrath of Khan.
One does kind of wonder what that rod was for. It’s obviously not attached to anything, since Kirk pulls it out so easily. It’s almost as though it were there just so Kirk could produce a handy weapon out of nowhere.
I recall another Engine Room Fight (don’t remember which episode) where somebody grabs a great big wrench, which is just sitting there by itself on a little table in the corner, like it was on display or something. I’m starting to think that Scotty sprinkles these convenient heavy objects around Engineering at strategic locations, just in case someone needs one while engaged in desperate hand-to-hand combat.
On the other hand, hot female androids seem to be a dime a dozen.
The thing about belaying pins is that they often have a rope tied around them. And the other end of that rope is usually attached to something important.
