If they did it as Mary Worth they’d be halfway through the first story when they got canceled three years in.
How the #### has Forbidden Planet not been remade? Take all the elements that really work (The themes, the Sci-Fi…that frigging monster!!) and improve the…shall we say a little bit of cheesiness from some of the actors?*…maybe a Westworld type HBO mini-series.
*Don’t get me wrong, I love them all, but there’s room for improvement.
You know they’d ruin it. Make it “dark”. Put in fake lens flare. Make everyone assholes. Add a “conspiracy”,
If you could change just the weak parts, it would be great. But they can’t help themselves. Look at the remakes if The Andromeda Strain, Night Stalker, Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Star Trek…
…Psycho, and that was almost a shot-for-shot remake.
Not that I want to see Forbidden Planet remade, but casting it would be an interesting challenge. I’m thinking George Clooney as Morbius, and Melissa Benoist as Altaira. I don’t have a good choice for Commander Adams yet. He needs to be the serious, square-jawed hero type; Jeremy Renner, maybe.
Or would it work to do a distaff version; Sigourney Weaver as Morbius, Cate Blanchett as the Commander, and Daniel Radcliffe as Altair.
As we know, Forbidden Planet was plagiarized from Willie the Shake’s Tempest, so a remake would be a remake of a remake. It would be much more interesting to see a reworking of the story where C57-D is caught up in a different story where several Bellerophon survivors have been through the educator (they all tried it and most of them died but a handful made it through) and the planet is a combat zone of id monsters that the survivors have not yet come to understand (they still think they are just local anomalies).
Or even Helen Mirren as Morbius; she did play Prospera in 2010.
Watching Day of the Dove. Chekov’s tricorder scan has returned “no life forms,” but they’re surrounded by plants that resemble pink pampas grass.
This happens with Spock’s tricorder all the time, too. Are tricorders unable to acknowledge plant life as life?
I think the “no life” is short for “no animal life” depending on context.
Or no intelligent life.
“My tricorder says there are no trees on the planet. The forest must be blocking my scans.”
Hell, maybe Chekov just doesn’t know how to use a scanner. He declared Ceti Alpha 6/5 completely devoid of life, and unable to support life, but there were 20-odd healthy humans within walking distance of where they beamed down.
Honestly, if Chekov was that bad with the scanner, who knows what civilization might have been wiped out if the Genesis test had gone on without finding Khan.
Okay, I’ve got a few more episodes under my belt. It’s getting to be a real power-through-it type achievement at some points. I was happy to recognize the Riddler in “Let This Be Your Last Battlefield” (was I the only one who thought that Gorshin was letting his inner impressionist channel Shatner in some of Bele’s scenery-chewing?).
The Helen of Troy episode bugged me quite a bit. In previous episodes, nothing got Kirk up on his high horse faster than when somebody interfered with an individual’s agency (admittedly, usually one of his crew). But when it came to marrying off the Princess of Elas against her will to the Trojan king, he’s right there on board with the plan (even though he got Tristan and Iseult-ed when he dried her tears without a handkerchief). What’s that, Kirk? Individual agency is all right for Federation officers, but planetary monarchs are servants to their people? Gotcha. Could have at least made a speech, though.
Watching Kirk putting his boots back on after his tryst with the queen of the Scalosians in “Wink of an Eye” gave me a newfound understanding of the term “quickie.”
In “Whom the Gods Destroy” I thought it was clever to have a passphrase/countersign set up (although it seemed a trifle coincidental that this one time it turned out to be needed, they just happened to come up with the idea). Even cleverer would have been a contingency countersign to let Mr. Scott know to have Security stun and take into custody the parties being beamed aboard.
Kirk wasn’t there to overthrow the established government of two planets, which is what would have happened if he had played “rescue the princess” in that case. Yeah, sucks to be a princess but that’s always been the case here on Earth.
I saw “And The Children Shall Lead” last night and noticed something at the end… After defeating the Gorgan they set course for starbase whatever (to drop off the kids, I assume). But no mention of going back to Triacus first to pick up the security detail they left stranded there when the ship left orbit.
I’m always amazed how non-crewmembers seem to have free run of the ship. What are those kids doing on the bridge and in engineering anyway? Doesn’t the ship have any restricted areas that at least require a security escort? (In this episode there are two guards stationed on the bridge at the turbolift doors, but they are pretty much useless.)
That actually would have made for a much better story. Kirk would have then had a legitimate claim to diminished capacity (“I was high on love, Admiral!” 
) if he had interfered with the diplomatic mission, instead of being disgraced as a deranged lunatic. Which is exactly what would have happened if “The Enterprise Incident” bore any resemblance to real life.
(Of course, the characters act that way “because it’s science fiction.” 
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They were more useless than usual because the children were clouding their minds, obviously.
As for the ones abandoned on the planet, eh, they’ll be alright. Since the last two to go through the transporter were dead, I imagine they’d be hesitant to trust the process anyway. (“We’re not fallin’ for that trick again!” 
)
If it were Picard, I might agree. But Kirk had no problem overthrowing governments if he thought they were bad. The first one that comes to mind is in “A Taste of Armageddon,” where he upends the main treaty of the two governments because he’s hoping that having to face the inhumanity of actual war will cause them to seek peace. He also had no problem upending any civilization run by a computer, or of re-introducing the American Way in that one episode I won’t even bother googling to know the name of.
“The Omega Glory”
No, “Return of the Archons.” Or “The Apple.”
I missed the reference to “computer.” So either “Archons” or “Apple.” Or “I, Mudd.” Or “Shore Leave.” Or “The Changling.” Or “Spock’s Brain.” Or “For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky.” Or “That Which Survives.” Or…