it was “City” matched with ST: IV. No doubt those who selected it noticed the difference in tone and made the selection in spuite of it or perhaps because of it. It makes some sense, though, in that we have the very comedic movie following the mostly grim drama, inasmuch as all of the episodes preceded the movies. Going from dark to light seems a good transition. Going from light to dark strikes me as something that would tend to ruin the light-heartedness of the first.
No one mentioned SF (hmmm…) as the location in both, which may have been a factor, in linking the two, above all other time-travel and earth’s-past-resurrected episodes.
Bryan, it was imaginative to link “Operation-Annihilate”. Losing Spock was like losing a brother. And what happened to Spock did seem anticlimactic in both cases. Your point about “creepy hostile creatures” seems like a bit of a stretch, in that the latter case had only an ominous hint of things to come, since they should not have existed as such, IIRC. But, what the heck.
Terminus, bingo on III! The pon farr factor may have tipped the case for choosing it over other Spock episodes. Also, good thinking as to Corbomite maneuver, although no one yet has hit on the curator choice. What I find most odd is that no one has broght up “Metamorphosis” and pointed out how it is in some ways a closer tie-in than “Changeling”. I seem to recall that both episodes were brought up by those who complained about TMP’s lack of originality.
The location of the 1930 events in “City” was implied to be New York, judging from establishing shots and Madison Square Garden cited on a boxing poster. An altered version of poster was used for the DS9 episode “Past Tense (part 2)” in which O’Brien and Kira travel through time (stopping briefly in 1930) looking for Sisko, Bashir and Dax in historical San Francisco.
Well, by “Kirk losing a relative” I refer to the deaths of Kirk’s brother, George Samuel and Kirk’s son, David.
In any case, one could probably find any number of episodes that coincide with a film on a handful of plot points. It’s then a matter of opinion on which set of congruences is the most significant.
Good call, and not a stretch at all. Both start with Klingons in trouble and while a truce may be possible, the situation is being aggravated by someone who seeks war for its own sake. You get to see Spock angry in both and at the end there’s rather corny laughter.
Oooops. I’ve got to get more sleep. Your connection was obvious (minor nitpick: Kirk lost his brother and sister-n-law. The nephew (somewhat predictably) survived his ordeal.) but somehow I got mixed up by the time I wrote my post to you. I didn’t realize my goof until the ride home. Wrong death, wrong movie. Due to various circumstances, the only other place to be online at for the rest of the evening was closed, so I couldn’t write a note acknowledging my misreading.
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Let’s just say you made a very sharp observation.
Agreed. There are any number of criterion that could used. Not just plot points but the same guest characters, same actors, presumed father-son relationships, as with the Deckers, philosophy, “tone” and so on…
