The Amok Time birthday cake.
Sat on the sofa and watched like 5 episodes earlier today.
RIP Mr. Spock
You know how some people like Isaak Hayes for gettin busy music?
Mine is Amok time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCamCYip2t4#t=44
One of the best episodes.
what is the ONLY scene where Spock actually smiles?Amok Time was written by sci-fi great Theodore Sturgeon, one of the best.
Freegards
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. ....”
I know this quote didn’t originally pertain to government controlled health-care, but many Americans are nevertheless finding it applicable as they do their taxes this year.
I always liked the original series. It had fistfights, aliens chucking spears, fetching 60s babes, screaming color schemes, and just a kind of overall element of no-nonsense vibrancy (even if it did get somewhat ridiculous at times) that I never really got from the later Trek series. I really just couldn’t get into the later shows. They seemed so blah to me, and I don’t think I ever warmed up to any of the characters.
Saw a number of the cast members over the years, starting with James Doohan at a comic convention in 1979, when the movie was about to be released. Met Leonard Nimoy briefly once, several years later, at the Paramount commisary, when I was there with a friend. He was quite nice, and I left with a pleasant impression of him. Never knew entirely what to make of Nimoy, though. He had a sort of artsy-fartsy side, steeped from that hip, pretentious 1960s Hollywood acting/artist milieu. But he also spent many, many years toiling and struggling in his field before he really found fame and recognition, and it seemed to have left him a little more appreciative and a little more down-to-earth than many in his position. It’s not a combo you usually find together... artsy-fartsy on one hand, friendly and down-to-earth on the other. But that’s how Nimoy always struck me.
Anyway, I do have the 1st and 2nd seasons of “Trek” on dvd, and I think I’ll get them out tomorrow and have a little marathon viewing session, in honor and appreciation of Nimoy. Actually, I’ve been spotting him a lot of late, in some of his earlier tv appearances, like as a boxer in a “West Point Story” episode from the mid-1950s, and as an Indian in a “Tombstone Territory” episode from the late-1950s. And also, in a good role in a 1966 “Gunsmoke” episode, where he played yet another Indian, getting clever revenge on the baddies that killed his trapper buddy. Might have been the last guest-shot he did before “Star Trek” debuted that fall.
By the way, although it’s often mentioned about Nimoy having a minor role in one of the later-era Republic serials, “Zombies of the Stratosphere” (1952), Nimoy was also featured (as a villainous Indian) in one of the very last true B-westerns... a Rex Allen flick from 1953.