Week four of the “new Series” Star Trek.
This week’s episode The Naked Time
A recap of the rules
No one can user later undiscussed episodes.
The movies are a no no.
Later Star Trek series are out of bounds as well. We’ll treat this as Star Trek Year Zero.
New Episodes Air Tuesday Nights at 8pm on NBC
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You may treat this as it were the sixties on the grounds that the discussion sticks to the show. Each new episode is a new episode
Ok here we go
One problem with the title, aside from Sulu dancing around without a shirt there were no naked people. Even in the begining Spock claims that there was a woman showering in her clothes.
Seriously, not a bad episode. Spock is becoming more interesting. We learn that he needs to be in control of his emotions and when he loses that he goes a little flakey and weepy. Gotta wonder what is behind that, perhaps it is his human ancestory.
So the Enterprise is on another pick up mission, at least they are staying for scientific readings of the break up of the planet (By they way can any science folk out there tell me why the gravity keeps yanking them while the plante shrinks? I assume the mass would remain constant therefore the gravitational pull would too)
Uh what is with the isolation suits with the big air holes and ability to remove teh gloves so easily. And why would this guy take his gloves off when he can see something really screwy had happened?
Things I have learned this week:
Sulu is now a helmsman, next week Sulu is the engineer.
This was a pretty good episode, talking about the balance of forces in the mind, played against the tough choices the captain must face with his marooned men freezing on the surface, etc.
But GEEZE! That first scene, just before the credits when the “bad” captain “beamed” aboard, learing and looking shiftily from side to side? What a ham that guy is!
Er what show are you talking about? This was about a disease that released the crews inhabitions and endangered the ship when one crew member shut down the engines while orbiting a dying planet.
Maybe you are talking about some Lost in Space episode.
Overall I thought the episode was pretty cool. Sulu the musketeer. And they actually managed to give us back story about Kirk, Spock and the nurse without having to stop everything to explain it to us.
However, I’m starting to wonder a little about the science fiction part of the show.
This “cold start” of the engines had apparently never been done before, even in a laboratory. Good thing the whole ship didn’t blow up right there. What do you want to bet before the season is over they’ll wind up doing some other things that have never been tested?
And how come the doctor had to rip Kirk’s shirt off to give him the antidote? I thought those fancy syringes could work right through the uniform.
(BrotherCadfael, you have this episode mixed up with another one that had not aired yet, so by the rules of the thread, we have to either ignore you or explain you away somehow.)
Oooh! I loved the TIME TRAVEL idea at the end! I hope they make use of that for an entire episode or two.
The EV suits were a joke, I thought. Goodness, we have better than that even now. It’s as tho they couldn’t afford to use replicas of space suits such as those in our own Gemini space ships. It looks like they bought some rain suits form Sears, for crying out loud.
A couiple of high points for me were the asian guy (Solo?) running around with the sword and the ultra funny Kevin O’Reilly.
One other thing that bugged me, and I wonder if we have the science to even accurately discuss it: why would the planet’s breaking up affect their orbit like that? It seems like it would be more likely to lose orbit outwards rather than falling towards the planet. I might just have to go to the library and see what new books are out about planetary and/or space science.
As a hijack, did anyone else see that hilarious F Troop last week? What a hoot!
I was kind of wondering why they didn’t just blow through the door into engineering with one of those phaser rifles, rather than carefully cutting through the bulk head (apparently in the shape of the state of Texas) to unlock it.
I did like how you learn a bit about each character through their intoxication. Poor, sad, lonely Kirk. I wonder if they’ll ever introduce a romantic interest for him?
And the Vulcanian cracked a joke! Even before he got the virus or whatever. And it was a referrence to a piece of Earth literature. Maybe he’s closer to his human ancestry than he lets on.
All in all, I liked this one. Lighter hearted than the previous episodes, for sure. Riley was hilarious.
There wasn’t any time * in it either. Actually, I don’t understand what the title means. Best guess I can make - they wrote a story about some hole in space, where ‘time’ has become ‘naked.’ Then they decided to abandon that story, but kept the title for some reason. Let’s hope they don’t use the original story in the future. time travel/ paradox stories suck. I really hope they don’t go down that road.
*(Well, usually. That British show about the old man who travels in a telephone box is sometimes quite good.)
Me thinks this is just the creators pandaing to the female audience. I want to see more Rand and Urhu! Maybe they could get drunk and take thier tops off… Oh what am I saying they won’t even show a bellybutton on TV these days.
I liked this one as well, especially the Spock bit alone, it looks like they did that in one take.
Kevin O’Reilley sure overacted when he called for the doctor on the PA system, then scratched his itching hand, held it up, rubbed it several times while twisting it, then let his eyes bug out, then rubbed it some more. I got the idea that he had the virus three minutes before he stopped doing hand gyrations.
I’ve been to England and saw that Britsh time travel show, it is called Doctor Whom.
Are viruses visible and do they really reach out and glom onto people as that goop did to that first hapless schmo? It looked like they just filmed his hand below a puddle of dripping maple syrup, then turned the image ninety degrees and went slow-motion.
I’m pretty sure something might happen with him and the communications chick. Well, if NBC has the guts to let a white man and a black woman get together.
Well, remember what that new doctor guy was going on about. He kept saying, “The WATER! It’s the WATER!”
What I got out of that wasn’t that the virus was the water, but rather, that it was carried by the water. Remember they also talked about the virus being transmitted thru perspiration.
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