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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 3, 2010 8:33:04 GMT -6
The fight to the death was what spoiled that episode for me. Namely the technicality of letting the woman "die" just long enough to cancel her marriage contract, then bringing her back. It would seem to me that legally that wouldn't work, and ethically it wouldn't be acceptable for Dr. Crusher to be a party to it.
Racism? I didn't think it had any racist stereotypes at all.
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Post by kijuro on Dec 4, 2010 0:50:56 GMT -6
The racist tones were said to come from the fact that the planet is full of backward-thinking black people astonished at a "superior white culture."
Also, the first director was reportedly racist to all the black actors.
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Post by Arkroyal on Dec 7, 2010 17:00:18 GMT -6
Doesn't the cheating the fight to the death also make you think of Amok Time?
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Post by Luke on Dec 8, 2010 13:21:52 GMT -6
Oh yeah! They surely knew we long time trekkies would be reminded of that. I think they did it on purpose.
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Post by kijuro on Dec 8, 2010 16:23:03 GMT -6
What about "The Last Outpost?" Who else thinks that there are a lot of story possibilities with the T'Kon?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 10, 2010 8:45:40 GMT -6
Yes, that was a missed opportunity. And what do you suppose the Guardian was? Some kind of machine? I mean he had been waiting for thousands of years and didn't seem to broken up to hear that the empire was no more!
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Post by Luke on Dec 11, 2010 8:41:53 GMT -6
That was the one with the planet with all those huge crystal structures all over the place, wasn't it? But I'm pretty sure the T'konian empire was used again. The one with the USS Yamato and the probe that injected a virus into the computers?
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Post by kijuro on Dec 12, 2010 15:12:58 GMT -6
Iconians. They may have been related. Yeah, this episode had those crystals and the Ferengi. I think the guardian was actually a man, trapped like Scotty was in Relics.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 13, 2010 8:20:34 GMT -6
Yes, you're thinking "Contagion" a season Two episode. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
The thing I remember about "The Last Outpost" was that this was our first look at the Ferengi. Remember the way the captain's viewscreen image was blown up to make them look more fearsome than they really were?
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Post by Luke on Dec 15, 2010 12:18:33 GMT -6
Yes sir, that episode really made the Ferengi out to be a serious threat. Their ship was supposedly a match for the Enterprise. I was kind of disappointed when they got bumped down to little more than comic relief.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 17, 2010 8:16:41 GMT -6
Exactly. They WERE a serious threat at first, but then... Yar came off looking good in that one too, as I recall.
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Post by Luke on Dec 18, 2010 9:34:24 GMT -6
Moving along, "Too Short a Season" is next, isn't it?
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Post by kijuro on Dec 19, 2010 0:16:17 GMT -6
Can't remember seeing it, sorry.
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Post by Arkroyal on Dec 19, 2010 12:39:49 GMT -6
Neither do I, now where's Memory Alpha for a prompt?
OH YES, now I remember, it's the one with the old guy who gets younger through some illegal experiement and the hostage crisis thing and all the convulatations.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 20, 2010 8:26:52 GMT -6
Yes, that's the one. I have to say I considered that a pretty pointless story, since it was primarily about some guest star who wasn't even a member of the crew. About the only interesting thing was the Prime Directive ramifications. The admiral had solved the original crisis by doing something similar to what Kirk did in "A Private Little War" -- giving one of the warring factions weapons. Instead of ending the war, it merely escalated it, as I remember.
But the next in sequence after "The Last Outpost" was "Where No One Has Gone Before". Starfleet Commander Kosinski arrives on the Enterprise to upgrade the engines, accompanied by an assistant from a species no one has ever seen before (the Traveler). His "modifications" allow the Enterprise to travel millions of light-years in just seconds. When he tries to return them, the ship ends up in an even worse predicament at the very edge of the universe, at the boundary between thought and reality (whatever that means).
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