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Post by Atoz 77 on May 29, 2009 7:58:18 GMT -6
The Melkotians were telepaths, and apparently highly afraid of contamination by other cultures. Kirk totally ignored their warning buoy and beamed down to their planet anyway, where they were condemned to death. The next thing they knew, the landing party (Kirk, Spock, Mccoy, Chekov and Scotty) were in a surrealistic facsimile of Tombstone, Arizona just in time to join the shootout at OK Corral, with them playing the part of the Clanton gang.
There were so many things to like about this episode, not least of which the great dialogue, for example -- Spock: "Captain, I strongly suggest you reseat yourself immediately, without moving a muscle of either hand. If I remember correctly, that would involve you in a what was known as a fast draw. It initiated unfortunate events."
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Post by andrewlee on May 29, 2009 8:41:58 GMT -6
I remember this one. Chekhov was shot but didn't really die. He was sent back to the enterprise
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Post by JADIS on May 31, 2009 22:09:00 GMT -6
Question: If Chekov was shot but later we discover he didn't die because all he saw as truth was the girl...then why didn't the bullets go right through him like they did during the coral fight with the others?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jun 1, 2009 7:46:53 GMT -6
My opinion is that the whole thing was a telepathic illusion created by the Melkotians. You'll note at the end of the episode, it turned out they had never left the buoy. I think that Chekov would have died, but when the Melkotians saw the way Spock figured out their situation, and the way Kirk responded by not killing Wyatt Earp, they re-thought the whole thing. "These guys aren't as stupid as they look," they thought (or words to that effect). So Chekov was spared.
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Post by kijuro on Jun 1, 2009 11:13:24 GMT -6
Did you ever see Gene Roddenberry's old OK Corral movie with DeForrest Kelley?
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Post by andrewlee on Jun 1, 2009 12:10:44 GMT -6
Kijuro. What is the old western movie called? When was it made?
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Post by kijuro on Jun 1, 2009 16:03:19 GMT -6
Okay, sorry. I got a few things mixed up. Kelley was in Gunfight at the OK Corral as Morgan Earp, and he played Ike Clanton in an episode of You Are There depicting the same events. Gene didn't write either of those.
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Post by andrewlee on Jun 1, 2009 18:38:07 GMT -6
Thanks for the right info! Don't worry about it at least you know now!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jun 5, 2009 7:40:55 GMT -6
Did you ever see Gene Roddenberry's old OK Corral movie with DeForrest Kelley? Yes, this is one of the neat ironies that made the episode so much fun. This was a 1955 movie, "Gunfight at the OK Corral", and Kelley was much younger. With Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday! Roddenberry was head writer on a western series called "Have Gun Will Travel" (which is were I got the name for the starship Paladin in my Graphics Gallery, by the way).
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Post by kijuro on Jun 5, 2009 12:12:02 GMT -6
Didn't D look striking in that film?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jun 8, 2009 7:34:23 GMT -6
He didn't have a lot of lines to memorize though. About Chekov and Sylvia -- I wonder how much of that the Melkotians put into the scenario and how much was from Chekov's own imagination. We're talking about telepathy, right? Obviously the Melkotians had no idea what a frontier town was supposed to look like or how you were supposed to behave in one. So virtually everything that happened had to be drawn from the memories of the Away Team. And just as obviously, all they knew about the west was what they had seen in western movies (or holonovels, etc.). If it was the intention of the Melkotians to execute them, there would have been no need to insert the saloon girl into the story... unless it was Chekov's own mind that put her there. It's interesting to speculate that it's very possible he had never seen a western before, and so didn't know about gunfights.
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Post by Luke on Jun 24, 2009 10:24:11 GMT -6
My favorite line from this episode was "We dont have that clockwork ticker in our heads like you do Spock. we cant just turn it on and off!"
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jun 26, 2009 7:35:14 GMT -6
I also noticed that Scotty spent most of his time getting acquainted with the saloon. I wonder if would have also survived if he had been shot? "I can't understand. There was this bourbon bottle. It was so beautiful. That's all I remember..."
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Post by Luke on Jun 27, 2009 8:19:51 GMT -6
Thats a good one!
Captain Kirk sums up their situation by saying everyone thinks they look like the clantons --
Chekov: "I dont tink that's such a bad ting, Keeptin."(Because that saloon girl keeps sitting in his lap and kissing him) Spock: "The day is still young, ensign."
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Post by kijuro on Jun 29, 2009 9:05:41 GMT -6
Hee hee, Keeptin.
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