Tuesday, April 7, 2009
10 PM Eastern - 7 PM Pacific
3 AM (WED) UK/Ireland
4 AM (WED) Germany
11 AM (WED) Seoul
1 PM (WED) Melbourne
“He must be stopped. Held. Destroyed if necessary.”
View the entire episode online HERE.
Tonight’s episode is a perfect of example of an “everything goes wrong” Star Trek episode. The plot is jumbled and doesn’t make sense, the effects are lame, the editing is choppy and repetitive. The concept may have looked good on paper but the execution went wrong. This is my least favorite first season episode. I haven’t seen it in quite some time. It should be interesting watching with others.
Yeah, I agree with you on all counts. Very poorly edited together. Viewer is easily confused.
It’s not memorable to me except for it being confusing. (But even a poor Trek episode is fun to mock with this crowd 
)
One thing that got me thinking however, is that fact that it includes on location footage–in other words—outdoors.
I’m trying to think off the top of my, head, but, even in the mere 3 seasons TOS had, they seem to have a much more generous number of outdoors episodes than any other Trek series. Granted, in the later years they could do more interesting things in studio, but there’s nothing like outdoors for conveying the idea of being on a strange new world.
Speaking of funny, let’s count how many times Lazarus falls off a cliff.
Agreed! On location shoots are unfortunately also very time-consuming and expensive, and can really interfere with a production schedule, with bad weather, accessability, etc…all the things a struggling production crew want to avoid!!!
The actor who plays Lazarus comes back as a Klingon officer in Trouble With Tribbles (but who am I talking to? Of course you already know that )
Screw 'em. Me wants my location shots. Me has wants and must haves!!
Robert Brown played Lazarus. You’re confusing him with Michael Pataki who played Korax in ‘Trouble with Tribbles’. He is famous for:
“The Enterprise should be hauled away as garrrrrrbage!”
Later Michael also played Karnas from the TNG episode ‘Too Short a Season’.
I checked Memory Alpha for the names of the characters. I ain’t that good.
Followed immediately by a nice roundhouse to the jaw from Mr Scott !
Really? Wow. That blows me away. I was sure that was the same guy.
And later Kirk asks Scotty “So you punched the Klingon because he insulted the Enterprise, but not because he insulted [me]”?
Scotty replies “Aye Sir. This was a matter a pride.”
Love it.
Look very similar. Fu Man Choo mustache and all.
LOL, I believe the Klingon called Kirk “A tin-plated dictator with delusions of Godhood…” Great thing about that ep is having the entire script from David Gerrold’s book.
Yes!! I just went rooting around my attic last night, and I found my beloved Star Fleet Technical Manual. And in the same box was the rest of my oldest and 1st Trek stuff and that includes the David Gerrold book.
And “The Making of Star Trek” (which I know you have too.)
This is the very first episode I ever saw. I must have been four.
Which you can D/L here, I think (PDF)
http://www.benbellabooks.com/gerrold/Tribbles.pdf
Alternative or Tribbles?
Alternative Factor. Followed by The Starlost.
checking in
We’re starting at 10:15 right?
I mean we’re not starting on time like a bunch of wild barbarians, right?
I was hoping so. The soup for dinner just finished up so… yeah.
Fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!