Star Trek 3x19 The Cloud Minders

La-di-da La-di-da curls hair sucks on pinky finger

“The only way you’ll use that device again is on one of us.”

Kinky.

“If Captain Kirk appears again…kill him.”

How is that smart? Are they willing to take on the whole Starfleet? How does he think he would get away with that? What a goober!?!

Dude needs a decent shave and haircut, imho

he must secretly be mining zeenite in a kinky troglyte dungeon :eek:

From David Gerrold:

"It was intended as a parable between the haves and the have-nots, the haves being the elite who are removed from the realities of everyday life – they live in their floating sky cities. The have-nots were called “Mannies” (for Manual Laborers) and were forced to live on the surface of the planet where the air was denser, pressure was high, and noxious gases made the conditions generally unlivable. The Mannies torn between two leaders, one a militant, and one a Martin Luther King figure. (Mind you, this was in 1968, shortly after King was assassinated, and just before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.)

Nice background, 'Talos - thanks!

These elite folks are fools and very close-minded.

I like the prison garb.

Star Trek: Enterprise Executive Producer Manny Coto has mentioned on several occasions that if the series had gone on to a fifth season, they would have done a prequel episode to “The Cloud Minders” which would have featured the city of Stratos.

Did the original ep have a flat screen display like we just saw?

The image of the planet river, seen from the Cloud City balcony, is the Hadramawt Plateau dry river basin in southern Saudi Arabia, taken by astronauts on the Gemini IV orbital mission in 1965.

For the remastered effect, the distant mountains on the horizon are based on a different photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.

sigh I’m tired of prequels.

Yes. It’s always been there. I guess they decided to use that instead of the conference room table-top one.

OMG - bad bra fitting!!

Yeah. At the time I felt it was “Release of the fan fiction”!!

Isn’t that an aerial view of the Mississippi River delta?

Or is it no bra with extremely pointy boobies? Vanna? ur secret?

“Dig as the Troglytes do. Dig. With your bare hands!”

Um, don’t they have those digging tools that they’ve referenced several times already?

gaffer tape yeeeoooowwwwwww