Keep in mind that this episode was written by Robert “Psycho” Bloch. :eek:
“Metamorphosis,” on the other hand, has never appealed to me. What, Cochrane falls in love with a reanimated corpse, and Kirk just leaves them on that planetoid?!? How the hell is he going to report Hedford’s death to Starfleet? And why was no attempt made to recover her body?
For that matter, why didn’t The Companion cure the Commissioner before she croaked? She’d kept Cochrane alive and young and in perfect health all this time! Did she just let Hedford die out of spite, so she could take over her body and make love, sweet love, to Zephraim?
COCHRANE: Screw that! Kirk, get me the hell off this rock!
The best part was watching Chekov get scared to death. :o It all went downhill from there.
Yes, Janet’s boobs were spectacular, but I liked neither her nor the love story, and I couldn’t stomach that douchebag Commodore. The ending was so contrived, I’ve always wondered whose ass they pulled it out of. Clearly, they had a deadline to meet that week!
The most interesting thing was seeing what they thought Shatner et al. would look like in old age. Man, did they get things wrong! :eek:
Not just silly; it contains almost all of the worn-out plot devices used in every Star Trek satire ever written. About the only thing missing is Uhura admitting she’s frightened.
As far as I can see, there’s no good reason The Companion couldn’t have cured Hedford. Not sure how much of her reasoning was spite and how much pure calculation, but The Companion is certainly not an unselfish being. She wants Cochrane no matter what!
Yeah, she was cured after The Companion took over her body on the brink of death! So she’s still essentially a reanimated corpse who had no say in what was about to happen to her.
There’s really no need to give me a verbatim transcript of this episode. I’ve seen it many, many times, and my opinion has not changed **at all **over the years.
Nancy was gonna be dead. One suspects she may have been quite happy to be alive, even if it was as part of a merged being.
As for the episodes, I will say only that The Omega Glory is on my worst 10 list, and Piece of the Action is one of my three most favorite episodes. The Fizzbin scene is priceless.
Amok Time is a very good episode. It’s also completely stupid, for a whole BUNCH of reasons that are easily listed by the same people who find it fun to rip up Star Trek episodes over things like plot holes, etc. Which points out that the way to watch Trek is not with the eye of the critic, but rather with the soul of the fan.
Gotta admit, “Omega Glory” is a good Prime Directive story until the last act.
As for “Assignment: Earth,” I’d’ve walked through hot lava barefoot to see more of Terri Garr. YUM-O! :o
(Apparently, she was not appreciative of the attention she received from Gene Roddenberry and to this day will not talk about her role on Star Trek.)
Please do not embark on the third season without first reading the analyses of the merits/demerits of “The *Enterprise *Incident” in a couple of other threads.
Yeah, she was originally supposed to be preggers, right? IIRC, in the ST:Continues episode, Apollo asks about her and it turns out she’s serving on another ship. No mention of any pregnancy or offspring.
Yeah, those wacky NBC censors. I remember reading about them in The Making of Star Trek: “The censors have said that the top of the breast can be shown almost to the nipple, but no part of the underside of a breast may be seen. Perhaps they think moss grows under there?” -Roddenberry
I think that was a Whitfield quote, actually, but what the hell?
It was the ban on navels that got me. In Genesis II, Roddenberry made sure the mutants had double circulatory systems so he could have twice the number of navels applied to them. (This was particularly fetching on Mariette Hartley. :o )
In “A Private Little War,” Nancy Kovack (also :o ) really was semi-nude when she was bathing under the waterfall, and one of her boobs was clearly visible from the side. Bob Justman had the film editor tack on twice as much film before he showed it to the NBC censor, and of course they “compromised” by having the film restored to its original cut!
