I gotta admit, I get a little choked up every time I watch the scene where Kirk tells Edith about the poet from the far left star in Orion’s belt, and “Good Night, Sweetheart” is playing in the background. The shot of New York as the song fades out really gets me. :o
It certainly sounds like it.
… And every time I watch this scene, I think of …
… naturally! 
Well, then, they wouldn’t work in space, would they? And we know they do, because we’ve seen them work, haven’t we?
The Klingons use sonic disruptors too, and we’ve all seen those green rings of energy being fired from their ships. Would they show it on TV if it weren’t true?!? :dubious:
Why, of course not!
The Histories…
Maybe it’s one of those things that only works on TV, like in that other thread.
Let’s build one and see!
Go back to the Library. 
Instead of wasting an Enterprise episode on the fan-fic Klingon Change, I much prefered Worf’s explanation in Deep Space Nine. “We do not speak of it.”
On second thought, why didn’t the other Klingons beat him up (everyone else did) for making fun of how they looked?
Because they don’t really look any different. All Klingons always had ridges (when you drop the unnecessary, misguided retcon). That whole scene with Bashir and O’Brien, in “Trials and Tribble-ations,” was a joke.
People talk about him, and then Spock, having to face the Kobayashi Maru test in Movie III. Kirk however had already faced it here-and failed.
If I were him, I’d put the onus on Edith-it should be her call what to do, not his. Have Spock recite what the next 2 decades will hold (show her the ears and the tricorder tapes if need be), let her decide. If he truly loved her, that’s what I would do. But if the future is doomed if she merely lives (no peace movement), then they might not be able to take that chance. [Note in other time travel eps/movies that things didn’t need to be perfectly reset for the future to remain unchanged]
Thank you, Sir.
You fight ignorance!
^:dubious:^
There seem to be different kinds of disruptors. I’m no expert so I usually defer to memory-alpha.com for these kind of questions. They try there best to adhere to canon if possible and provide citations for their entries.
Apparently the only time we ever saw sonic disruptors were in the episode *Taste of Armageddon. *And yes, they inexplicably worked in the vacuum of space when the Enterprise was attacked. :smack:
From the main disruptor page:
Similarities between Eminian sidearms and Klingon weapons of the same period can be explained as a result of the expedient modification and reuse of existing props to accommodate the limitations of television production budgets.
And from the disruptor cannon page:
Klingon 22nd century Klingon Birds-of-Prey were equipped with an impressive arsenal, for the time, and included wing-mounted (and belly-mounted) disruptor cannons and photon torpedo launchers. (ENT: “Borderland”) These cannons were capable of firing in either disruptor pulse or beam modes. (ENT: “The Augments”)
I reluctantly rate AF as even worse than Wink of an Eye, Enterprise Incident, Way to Eden and the unfortunately botched Menagerie I and II.
The bad science was multi-layered in this one. Matter and antimatter mutually annihilate, period! You don’t need identical bodies. (And for that matter, technically the two guys were no longer physically identical.) Oh, but it doesn’t matter in that silly corridor. But outside it two whole Universes were in peril. Uh huh.
Beyond that, the episode was very rushed in production. One of the reviewing books noted that. Perhaps that explains why Kirk, with Spock, was able to analyze how “Lazarus” appeared to be two different men when HE NEVER ONCE MET THE GOOD, SANE ONE UNTIL AFTER THAT CONVERSATION.
… and the sound effects, combined with the inter-dimensional wind and special effects, were tremendously annoying. But of course I would have been willing to accept all that had the episode made a lick of sense.
One more thing I had never considered until recently: It did seem odd that the disruption-whatever that somehow threatened all existence (but without actually lasting long enough to succeed) was detected by Star Fleet all through the Galaxy. I just assumed they had some sort of subspace device that could gather data of some sort across the whole damn thing. But someone else reviewing it was sure they did not know the difference between a “solar system” and the Galaxy. The whole episode was such a mess I find that entirely plausible.
(Spock’s Brain was in a class by itself. Some have suggested it was campy by design.)
The new, improved digitized version gives McCoy more buttons for Spock’s remote control than three.
Because that was the one thing Spock’s Brain needed to be a good episode:smack:
It needs a lot more help than that.
A good premise was buried under what apparently was a whole host of rewrites. That two men, mirror doubles from parallel dimensions, would become aware of each other’s existences, driving one of them completely around the bend, is a fascinating concept. Probably the only worthwhile part of the ep. is the one which touches on that, where the sane one and Kirk have that conversation.
Watched “The Apple” today.
My favorite moment: Kirk telling Akuta “We come in peace!” right after he’s decked him without any provocation.
I hate, hate, hate this episode, even more than I hate most of those of the third season! :mad:
There were delays caused by having to replace the guest actor. Lazarus was originally going to be played by John Drew Barrymore (son of John Barrymore, father of Drew Barrymore). He didn’t show up on the first morning of shooting, and they had to hastily re-cast the part, which couldn’t have helped an already troubled episode.
The producers filed a grievance against Barrymore with the Screen Actors Guild, which suspended him for six months as a result of his no-show. It was probably caused by his drinking (many of the Barrymores have had problems with addiction), and he only worked sporadically after that.