Random Star Trek discussion

Randomly pulled up "The Wounded" from TNG and, although it's a really good episode overall, there is some oddly sloppy writing in it.

Troi calls the Cardassians "our allies," an unusual way to refer to an unfriendly power that you just happen to have a treaty with.

Data is randomly carrying out helm instructions. (Maybe they couldn't afford to give an extra at conn any lines?)

The crew stands around the bridge watching a tactical display as the Phoenix blows up two Cardassian ships ... and then Picard orders a change from Warp 4 to Warp 9?

"The Wounded" is one of those episodes whose stock has risen with me since I first saw it. It's got some of O'Brien's best moments, it gives more dimension to the Cardassians, has some moments of suspense (just in space battles playing out on a viewscreen!), has a very solid guest star in Bob Gunton, and ends with a great Picard scene ("We may pity him, but we will not dismiss him" and "We'll be watching").

You know Minstrel boy? Well I used to imagine a boy composed entirely of Minstrels (a choc sweet in the UK) that can fire Minstrels out his hands and fly around leaving a path of Minstrels like sandman from Spider-Man 3.

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Rope!



Cleaned up version

Did you notice the difference between them before it was pointed out?

Yes. Even when I first saw it when I was 6 or 7.

Question from elsewhere: how many women did Kirk genuinely love during his life?

Edith Keeler is one. Miramanee when he had amnesia. Carol Marcus seems like there was definitely something there. Lori Ciana was serious enough they killed her in TMP to get rid of her. A few other maybes, but I think that's my list.

There was also Antonia he was with in the Nexus in Generations, so she would have to make the list of Kirk's true loves. In Shore Leave, there was a woman from his past who they managed to conjure up, I think named Ruth.

Janice Lester from Turnabout Intruder is a possibility for him to actually have loved before her envy made them break up. Ariel Shaw from Court-Martial could have risen to more than a thing. And Rayna from Requiem for Methuselah is another possibility but one I find doubtful; he professes love IIRC, but he just met her and she's an android.

Rayna's loss was so traumatic, Spock had to use the "forget" spell.

Yeah, but I haven't seen the episode in so long, how much was actual feelings for Rayna and how much was just trauma about how it all went down?

Antonia is definitely another possibility.

I'm kind of envious of people who got to watch TOS totally fresh, even if it was in syndication.

I grew up on TNG but we didn't get any of the UHF stations that aired TOS reruns in the '80s, so all of my TOS came from novels, the Alan Dean Foster adaptations that the library had, and books like the Stephen Whitfield "Making Of" and Allan Asherman's compendium, so I don't think there's a single episode that I didn't already know the basic plot of before I ever saw it.

Frakes stole his TNG uniform.

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I was in first grade and came home from school one day to see that the regular afternoon cartoon show (Warner Brothers, Popeye, etc) had been replaced with this...space...show.

At first I was mad, but by the end of the week my classmates and I were using leftover popsicle sticks to fashion phasers to play Star Trek during recess.

That station ran the show in strip syndication for a number of years, Monday through Friday at four and at 10:30pm on Saturdays. The first time I saw "The Devil in the Dark" was on a Saturday night after the late local news and it scared the hell out of me.

What do women and the Jem Hadar have in common?
They both get cranky when they’re not getting any white.

Shatner before TMP, but after TOS

That is one awful toupee.

Would it have been funny if on "Rocks & Shoals" 3rd Remeticlan said to Keevan "Don't be tight with the ketracel white"?

In fairness, conservatives pitched a fit about "The Outcast" too.

(FF)
It...it..it was different somehow!!!