She’s gonna blow any second now! :eek:
Admiral! We’ve got WHALES here!
Or “There be whales here” whichever way it’s said, the post stands unedited.
Mostly because I missed the edit window.
The reboot needs to go back to San Fransisco in 1986. They love Italian.
Triskelion is a bad episode. On the other hand, the monetary unit in almost every household I’ve lived in has been the quatloo.
But it was Angeligue Pettyjohn’s catapult to fame. She used to be a regular at the San Diego Comic Con, selling and autographing photos of herself wearing the skimpy silver suit from that episode. Some years, she herself would be wearing the suit. (And, behind the counter, she had other photographs of herself without the suit…)
Even spoofed on The Simpsons, in the episode where Homer and Barney become astronauts; NASA scientists wager, in quatloos, as to who will survive training.
Yip. We know this because the only reason she was attracted to Kirk was because she was in human form. At least, I remember there being something either stating or heavily implying that.
“That excites me. You excite me! Why?”
“For the same reason you excite me. You’re a very … beautiful woman!” SNOG
Shatner, for one, remembered her years later. 
Wow - I thought I would be the first person to choose “The Empath” but it seems other SDMB members share my opinion.
Technically, I don’t think it is really bad. Its big problem is that it lacks anything. (Or maybe I should have said it lacks everything?)
I must admit from my first viewing I was taken aback by its enormous insignificance and its astounding unimportance.
Well I’ll stop my comments and give someone else a chance to discuss the nugatory nature of this Star Trek adventure.
For me, this is a very 60s episode. Even more so than Space Hippies. It’s like one of those Bad Acting Schools where class projects such as “Just emote! No words!” will be assigned on a regular basis.
Plus, Gem had an Audrey Hepburn kind of look to her, imho. The Bad Guys’ appearance almost seemed like a last second add in. Having them remain unseen would have helped, maybe…
Even at that, we get to see Kelley as Bones do his best Shatner Ham Fest rendition, so it’s not all bad.
Again, an imho post, but the Space Hippies should really be called Space Beatniks.
ymmv
It could be worse – remember those two redshirts left on the planet in “And The Children Shall Lead” (the ones they thought they were beaming up before they found out they’d left orbit and, oops, beamed two other redshirts into empty space).
Why?
They just seem more beatnik-y than hippy. That improv jam session is what really does it for me. Go back to movies and TV in the 50s to see similar examples.
Now, the free love bit of it is hippy-ish, but even that isn’t exclusively hippy.
Early to mid 60s was a pretty big mix of things, tho. That’s why I put IMHO and YMMV
I hate it when that happens.
Transporter Protocols, Lesson One: Scan first, beam second.
Hippies were sort of latter day beatniks. The Star Trek episode seems of the late 60s hippy period to me, particularly their attire and free love. Their Star Trek protest is very much of the late 60s Vietnam/Woodstock period although beatniks protested and they were both of the counter culture. If you want to think of them as beatnik, I can see that, but it’s just as easy to classify them as hippy, and that’s probably what the script writer had in mind.
I think it can go either way. Hence the imho and ymmv. Nice discussion.
For me, one of the most 60s of ep ideas was A Private Little War. Two superpowers arming and interfering with a local conflict screams VIETNAM! to me. Altho, I guess we could cite Korea as an influence as well.
Some eps seem to continue issues from the 50s into the early 60s, and some almost seem a little prophetic of the 1970s. The naturist earth shoe wearing back to nature farmers of This Side of Paradise come to mind. Of course, the seeds were already there in the 60s, it just seems to have been really noticeable (to me) in the early to mid 70s.
Yeah, beatniks were very over by that time, no doubt killed off by Maynard G. Krebs.
I saw it when first aired, and there was no doubt in my mind they were hippies. I spend a lot of time in the East Village, so I knew them in their native habitat.