I like the woman the cat turned into much better. My wife hates Teri Garr for some reason. When I was watching this episode one day she came in and said she couldn’t stand the voice of the Teri Garr character - who I didn’t realize was Teri Garr until the credits ran.
I would have paid large sums to be able to sit and watch William Shatner watch this for the first time.
Lumpy & Vyager,
Thanks for the info on Tholian Web spacesuits.
hat they wee used once and not again makes them neater in my mind.
Seriously, just watch them all. Best if in order, or some reasonable approximation.
The good ones are good. The okay ones are still good. Even the bad ones can be entertaining, and help you reflect on the characters and the show.
Sure, Spock’s Brain is notably bad for the plot. The writer did it to prove the point that any old dreck could be produced as Star Trek (I believe it was to prove Roddenberry was clueless).
Then there’s the space hippies one from Season 3, The Apple, where Spock is a cool rockin’ hipster and Chekov is a prim stick-in-the-mud. That one stands out because the characters have no coherency to how they had been established.
The Omega Glory is heavy-handed.
They’re still interesting.
In the few years my local station ran them in the afternoons and I was watching them, there were several that ran 2 or 3 times. There were a few that ran 7 or 8 times - notably The Paradise Syndrome (the Indians and the pyramid) and A Piece of the Action (Gangsters in Space). Then there were a couple that only ran once. One was The Omega Glory, one was The Trouble With Tribbles. I could never figure out what guided those decisions. I would have happily watched both of those episodes again.
The Paradise Syndrome (the Indians and the pyramid) and A Piece of the Action (Gangsters in Space)
It’s a fun game to rename the original episodes so that people instantaneously know which one you’re talking about. Maybe for another thread…
Once when I was watching syndicated ST:TNG reruns, my wife came into the room and asked, “Is this Crunchy Bugs?” (referring to Conspiracy). I replied, “No, this is the Prelude to Crunchy Bugs” (it was Coming of Age). We both knew what the other meant.
I later wrote a musical composition titled “Prelude to Crunchy Bugs.”
Perhaps, but after NBC grudgingly renewed them for Season 3, and out them in the Friday time slot (not a good time for a show supposed to appeal to young people - this was before we invented geeks) Roddenberry pretty much washed his hands of the show and started working on other series. ideas. So it didn’t wind up proving anything.
And was one of the original episode plot ideas from the ST proposal. This one we can blame Roddenberry for.
Paradise Syndrome is one of the few episodes I’ll turn off. (The Empath is another.) First, I hate amnesia plots. Second, the Enterprise sub plot is stupid.
A: Why not call a tow truck. They aren’t that far away, and it is not like Star Fleet doesn’t know where they are. Second, even if warp is broken they have impulse - they could have gotten to the planet a lot faster than the damn asteroid. Third, I don’t buy that Spock would have screwed up like that. The only reason for them to meander along with the asteroid is for Kirk to have time in his little Indian wonderland. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Heinlein said that both he and Gerrold stole the concept from Ellis Parker Butler’s “Pigs is Pigs”.
I don’t know
it might be right
Displaced-and transplanted-Native-American pussy
is mighty tight.
Actually, that’s “The Way to Eden” – “The Apple” was a Season 2 episode, with a primitive alien race whose “god” ordered them to kill the Enterprise crew.
(Don’t feel badly; I’ve confused those two thematically-similar titles more than once.)
The Cage had an Adam and Eve under current, too.
Vina: He doesn’t need you. He’s already picked me.
Yeoman J.M. Colt: Picked her? For what? I don’t understand.
Vina: [Dripping with a mixture of indignation and sarcasm] Now there’s a fine choice for intelligent offspring!
Yeoman J.M. Colt: [puzzled] Offspring, as in children?
Number One: Offspring, as in… he’s ‘Adam’. Is that it?
If only he had watched the other greatest Trek Movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Or if only Peter Weir directed the new movies.
Or if Peter Weller played Captain Kirk.
Is anybody out there not having a good time?
The writer of Spock’s Brain was Gene L. Coon, using the name Lee Cronin. Coon had left Star Trek after the second season and went to work for Universal, but contributed scripts and stories in the third season. He didn’t want it to get out that he was moonlighting, hence the pseudonym. Under the name Lee Cronin, he also wrote or contributed the story for Spectre of the Gun, Wink of an Eye, and Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Using anti-matter to destroy a giant amoeba? :dubious: 
Yep.
We had goooooood drugs back then!
Maybe she was the human Isis as well? Despite Internet claims to the contrary, her identity has never been reliably established.
Barbara was also in the third-season dreck “Plato’s Stepchildren,” one of my top five all-time worst episodes.
He also worked for Wild, Wild, West and turned out an episode based on the same idea behind “Wink of an Eye.”
At that point, where the budget had been drastically cut, Roddenberry had basically moved on to other things, and key staff like Solow, Justman, and Fontana were also bailing, they were forced to rework junked scripts that were gathering dust in the files.
“Last Battlefield” was originally the story where the alien society had blacks who discriminated against whites. Neither Roddenberry nor Coon ever got it to where they were comfortable putting it into production. “Way to Eden” was originally the story where Kirk and McCoy’s daughter Joanna got involved with each other. The third-season producer rejected the idea because he didn’t think McCoy was old enough to have a grown daughter, and Chekov’s Russian girlfriend was introduced instead. “Enterprise Incident” was supposed to mirror the capture of the USS Pueblo off North Korea in 1968. The producer and network thought the idea was “too risky,” so it became a lame espionage plot.
And so on, and so on.