Not sure what this means, but if it means to say “Hey, Bub, you try start from scracth and try to do better”, I am not here to peck at Roddenberry…only to swap observations.
I am surprised no one mentioned how lithium crystals were the original fuel for the Enterprise, but at some point (when?) it evolved into dilithium crystals. Perhaps they latter is more energy efficient. Remind me to ask Scotty when he’s relaxing with his technical journals.
Also, at the end of “Tomorrow is Yesterday”, the pilot is about to beam back to earth (in his proper era) when Kirk calls him over the intercom at the transporter. The machine is unmanned at this instance, and this visitor knows exactly which button to press to answer the page and say one last goodbye.
Someone commented that Spock’s parents only appear once. Interesting that they did not appear in Amok Time when he was supposed to be betrothed, or officially married. (Did they know the girl was going to reject him anyhow? We can only speculate…)
Overall, I say thanks Mr. Roddenberry for a job well done in taking us where no man has gone before. I wonder if previous generations felt just as excited about Buck Rogers?
You ground it up and smoked it, didn’t you?
Not that I blame you; I did the exact same thing with my Raimi Necronomicon.
Disturbingly, that is almost completely true.
Thank you. The other examples are exactly why I used the word “ordinarily.” Which I now spell correctly, heh heh.
“This Side of Paradise” had Spock with a wide smile much of the way through, but obviously that was the spores “talking.”
I’d say that Spock was intended to be relatively free of emotions due to the alien side of his heritage and years of training in logic-oriented sublimation. He was portrayed as honestly baffled by certain emotional extremes around him, and that wasn’t supposed to be an act.
Struggling to maintain that he was completely devoid of all emotion, OTOH, was ultimately self-defeating. The ending of “Galileo 7” was an example of Spock pulling semantic acrobatics to frame his act of desperation as the result of pure logic. The bridge crew didn’t buy it, partly because they knew him so well by then.
Just the fact that Spock did have some emotions made him an interesting character, one with broad appeal, particularly to the lonely and socially alienated.
It was refreshing that he admitted to having some, although he didn’t want to discuss them, in “Spectre of the Gun.” He was certainly capable of mourning the apparent death of a crewman that was so young and that he constantly worked with. Admitting as much left McCoy and Scotty with nothing more to say.
True Blue Jack
Pointing out TOS errors = Shooting fish in a barrel. The idea is that there’s really no challenge to it.
I always thought UESPA was to Starfleet what JPL is to NASA.