Thanks.
Must be their clothes or lack thereof compared to the tube Ma wore in Star Trek 90210.
One thing about The Cloud Minders, Vanna has no interest in Kirk. Vanna is all business, devoted to her cause, intelligent and does not swoon over Kirk or Spock like almost every other female they encounter. It is refreshing.
Thinking about it, Scotty was more of a ladies man than Kirk in the series, having seemingly been involved enough with a coworker that it took alien possession to break them up.
Also, Scotty is the only member of the TOS crew who ended up with a dead hooker on his hands, another first.
Excuse me, gentlemen. Does the name “Dr. Helen Noel” mean anything to you?
Hell, yes. This heterosexual male agrees with you.
And Droxine was interested in Spock’s mind. Really, she was!
I thought of her, but I don’t think she counts, since as a woman she couldn’t get combat experience.
I know her reputation well. Once I gave a paper at a conference in a track at the same time as one where she was speaking. I would have much rather seen her than me.
No she isn’t. I think it is the Fredericks of Bedrock style that gets me going.
Big teeth? What about the female form that one of the Kelvans assumed (not to mention the clothing)?
Tis raining here, so no fireworks. I am off to watch The Deadly Years and add my mite to the discussion.
Um…she didn’t swoon over KIRK. She was totally into the Vulcan, only she knew swooning wouldn’t get her anywhere.
Droxine was into Spock. Vanna was the rebel leader. She dressed up sexy, as I recall, in a bid to get close enough to Kirk to knife him, but for her it was all business.
Vanna is one of the miners, silly Skald–the one who leads the rebellion.
I got halfway through TDY and realized I can’t stand this episode. The endocrinologist obviously had Daddy issues and watching an old Kirk is just no fun (plus it’s disconcerting because he doesn’t look like that now that he is the age they were trying to depict!).
Off to watch The Ultimate Computer because I can’t recall that one off hand.
ooh! Might be my new sig. Shiny!
How many times must I tell you people to stop bothering me with facts!!!
It strikes me that Ms Palin would have made a great ST alien.
I liked The Ultimate Computer–very man vs machine, with humanity winning out. No female aliens, though–only Uhura provided some estrogen for this one.
I am really irked by the stupidity of BOTH of my browsers (or the site): if I try to skip a scene I get a screen that says “this program has been blocked by an AD blocker in your browser” or some such. There is NO such blocker. I’ve tried in Safari and FF–FF works marginally better.
I may end up just getting the shows off YouTube. :rolleyes:
She’d look hot with some rubber thing on her face, a’ la Voyager aliens. 
If it keeps her from talking, I’m in favour.
I got the same message when I tried watching in IE. I ended up pressing the CTRL key when I clicked on the link, and that seemed to work. Still, very annoying.
I am also watching the TOS episodes for the first time ever (thanks to the Dope). I watched “Journey to Babel” first and then “Balance of Terror.” I was mightily confused when in “Balance of Terror” the Romulan captain was clearly Spock’s father from “Journey to Babel” and still in Vulcan make-up. What the hell?
I guess they liked the actor so much from the first episode that they brought him back to play Spock’s dad. That’s what I get for watching the episodes out of order.
Ah, but that’s the perfect episode for your own OP! You asked: “Ever been left puzzled by a plot line in TOS? … Do you have any plot or characterizations in TOS that make you go 
or :dubious: later?”
In The Omega Glory (basically Roddenberry’s 4’th of July episode, which I just watched on the 4’th of July), there the crew is, hundreds of light-years from Earth, when a Yang carries in Old Glory itself! Yang chief Cloud William and Kirk then quote The Pledge of Allegiance – the 1950’s version into which the phrase “under God” was sledgehammered! Later, we see they have the exact same U.S. Constitution, too!
So: How the hell did that happen?!? Talk about “ and/or :dubious:”!
After seeing the American Flag, Spock briefly suggests parallel evolution, but at least the final scriptwriters knew better than to push that very far, so Spock drops it. However, otherwise they refused to offer any other “explanation”! Only Douglas Adams, with his inimitable style and imagination, could possibly have come up with one.
Talk about fitting the OP!