Posted on 04/05/2017 3:54:11 PM PDT by Bender2
The addition of Harry Mudd could have saved any of these 4.
We reach, Mr. Bender.
Karl Urban is such a good choice as McCoy. Whoever cast him was brilliant.
I know who it is. I was just referring to the fact the M. Belli has more than a passing resemblance to Alan Hale Jr.
CC
How can you leave out "Kirk: The Raging Queen" (aka "Turnabout Intruder")
Oh God!! NOT THAT ONE!!!
"Yes, he left that one off the list"
"Something I have always wanted to do to myself"
There you have it: Bender is GUILTY of missing the worst one ever!
A little something for Sulu...
"There is nothing we can do for this disorder -- NOTHING!"
Unfortunately, you blew yourself up completely with the #4 choice, which was actually one of the BEST Star Trek TOS of the third season. (Not saying a lot, but certainly it doesn't come anywhere close to deserving your ranking.)
Replace #4 with The Empath and you've got 100%.
They gave Garak some good lines. And actor Andrew Robinson ran with them.
CC
The Lights of Zetar is my least favorite.
And he’s Australian! That is range, right there.
CC
The city on the edge of forever. The Guardian of Forever struck like a hammer with the imagination shown by the writers.
SPOCK: Incredible power. It can’t be a machine as we understand mechanics.
KIRK: Then what is it?
GUARDIAN: (The doughnut pulses bright in time with the words) A question. Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question.
KIRK: What are you?
GUARDIAN: I am the Guardian of Forever.
KIRK: Are you machine or being?
GUARDIAN: I am both and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending.
SPOCK: I see no reason for answers to be couched in riddles.
GUARDIAN: I answer as simply as your level of understanding makes possible.
SPOCK: A time portal, Captain. A gateway to other times and dimensions, if I’m correct.
GUARDIAN: As correct as possible for you. Your science knowledge is obviously primitive.
SPOCK: Really.
KIRK: Annoyed, Spock?
GUARDIAN: Behold. A gateway to your own past, if you wish.
(A camel train passing a pyramid, ancient Rome - images appear inside the doughnut.)
MCCOY: Killers! Killers! I won’t let you get me! I’ll kill you first! I won’t let you get me! Assassins! Murderers! Killers!
(Scott and a guard manage to grab McCoy, and Spock neck-pinches him. An army of lancers charge across the doughnut.)
KIRK: Spock! If that is a doorway back through time, could we somehow take Bones back a day in time, then
SPOCK: Relive the accident. This time be certain that the hypo accident is avoided. Look at the speed with which the centuries are passing, Captain. To step through on precisely the day we wish
KIRK: Guardian. Can you change the speed at which yesterday passes?
GUARDIAN: I was made to offer the past in this manner. I cannot change.
The “Guardian of Forever” (voiced by Bartell LaRue) explains that it is a doorway to any time and place.
LOL! I concur! :-)
Oh My!
I would rather ear year-old Gakh than watch “The Empath” ever again!
A 50 year old low budget SciFi show
that has this kind of popularity
Is Proof of it’s Genius!
Hey...
Post a link to Your other List.
I can’t find in the pale moonlight. Which season and episode was that?
I was going to watch again.
Dr. Who did a lot on a tiny budget too.
Originally written by Harlan Ellison, and not by the regular team, it eventually got worked over by the in-house stable, and Roddenberry himself did the final rewrite. It was hugely over-budget and drug well over schedule.
[Vaguely reminiscent of Ian Anderson's tortured description of how Locomotive Breath came to be.]
Yet, it might be the best Star Trek TOS episode, ever...
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