50 Years of "Star Trek" The original Series - My Sweet 16

4-2-2017 | Bender2

[Bender2]

50 Years of "Star Trek" The original Series - My Sweet 16

Nothing like a lingering Sunday martini brunch... to bring out nostalgia--

And this Sunday my mind goes back 50 years... to watching the oiginal "Star Trek"

And here are my Sweet 16... Best Episodes:

[Kellis91789]

We are so lucky Desi-Lu produced this show. Had they not insisted it be shot on film, it would not look good enough on today’s TVs to enjoy. Series from the 60’s I loved but were shot on video tape are now just unbearable smudges on HDTV. Even ST:NG shot in the late 80’s and early 90’s is a horrible blur.

I can’t disagree with your list, except mine would have included Mirror,Mirror and Who Mourns for Adonais?

[Big Red Badger]

Picked up ;
STAR TREK 50
The original series.
Complete and Remastered!
If you’re a Trekkie...
You Need it!
8 hrs of interviews and Extras.

Absolutely Fascinating!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Re: “Battlefield”, that is also another way of looking at it. It was rather a fitting end to the episode that all Kirk & Co. could do was shake their heads and walk (or warp) away. It reminds me a bit of the deranged/unhinged hatred that is at the core of the left. Simply no way to reason with people that lost.

Re: The Planet Killer. That might’ve made for a good movie with the right script, although I’m not sure I’d agree with the notion that it was created to fight the Borg. It was too much a malevolent entity. The Borg wished to assimilate all, whereas it simply destroyed anything in its path for energy, so that’s an even worse concept.

The 3rd season did have some good eps. Lack of funds forced them to become more creative, and that’s often a good thing.

[Howie66]

Wow! Thanks, Brother!

[Bender2]

Re: For extra credit, Bender2, who was the actress who played the "simple cat"? (Hint - she was a Playboy Playmate!)

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Gadzooks, tar-- Ask something I don't know... or make a buck off!

BTW Roberta has a small mole on her... ________?

Hint: It ain't her big toe

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[Bender2]

Re: Hottest babe consideration must go to... Marianna Hill who was also Fredo's drunk wife

See ya and raise... you Barbara Bouchet:

As Kelind... in 1968's "By Any Other Name"

And Paul (Kirk Douglas) Eddington's cheating wife, Liz... in John Wayne's 1965 In Harm's Way

Man, she was one hot... BABE!

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[tarheelswamprat]

Yep, it was Angela Dorian (stage name - her real name was Victoria Vetri). She made one fine kitty!

[Army Air Corps]

Sherry Jackson. Sweet fancy Moses, she was a stunner. The original series ended by the time I entered the world, but I watched the show in syndication from the time I was a wee lad well into High School. Sherry Jackson was imprinted on my brain at a rather young age. The same goes for Diana Ewing as Droxine in the episode “The Cloud Minders.”

[Army Air Corps]

That made my morning.

[Army Air Corps]

For the most part it was best to just ignore things which did not make sense and enjoy it.

As the MST3K Theme Song put, "repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show, I should really just relax.'" :-)

[yarddog]

And the “Prime Directvoe” was simply a plot device sort of like Kryptonite in Superman.

They ignored the prime directive when it was not needed to restrict the Enterprise.

[Oatka]

I’m 84. She’s still a “chick”.

Sorry to read that she passed away two years ago.

[Bender2]

Re: I think "Balance Of Terror" was one of the best.

"Balance of Terror"

"I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend."

"Balance of Terror", written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety, is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, that first aired on December 15, 1966. It was repeated on August 3, 1967. The episode is a science-fiction version of a submarine film; writer Paul Schneider drew on the film The Enemy Below, casting the Enterprise as the American destroyer and the Romulan vessel as the German submarine.

The Enemy Below

VON STROLBERG
I should have died many times, Captain, but I continue to survive somehow. This time it was your fault.

CAPTAIN MURRELL
I didn't know. Next time I won't throw you the rope.

VON STROLBERG
I think you will.

The Enemy Below is a 1957 war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II. The movie stars Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens and was directed and produced by Dick Powell. The film was based on a novel by Denys Rayner, a British naval officer involved in anti-submarine warfare throughout the Battle of the Atlantic.

This was directed by Dick Powell, a very over looked 1930s silver screen crooner turned "Tough Guy" actor turned Director/Producer. Was married to both Joan Blondell and June Allyson. Much maligned for producing & directing 1956'sThe Conqueror starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Exteriors shot near St. George, Utah, downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site where 11 A-Bomb test took place in 1953.

This caused a Cancer Controversy: Powell died of cancer in January 1963, seven years after the film's release. Armendáriz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960, and killed himself in June 1963 after he learned his condition had become terminal. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s. Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco — Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers, and Wayne himself believed his lung cancer to have been a result of his six-packs-a-day cigarette habit.[12] The cast and crew totaled 220 people. By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People magazine, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer and 46 had died of the disease. Several of Wayne and Hayward's relatives who visited the set also had cancer scares. Michael Wayne developed skin cancer, his brother Patrick had a benign tumor removed from his breast, and Hayward's son Tim Barker had a benign tumor removed from his mouth.

The film... is a hoot to watch!

I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her... There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.

Back off, Duke-- My heart is reserved... for Bendy when I grow up!

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[Bender2]

Re: At one point, Joan Collins was married to Anthony Newley.

Well, Joan always had... excellent taste!

And since you seem to enjoy... always posting twice--

Re: At one point, Joan Collins was married to Anthony Newley.

Well, Joan always had... excellent taste!

BTW Joan Collins Spouses:
Maxwell Reed (m. 1952–1956; divorced)
Anthony Newley (m. 1963–1971; divorced)
Ronald S. Kass (m. 1972–1983; divorced)
Peter Holm (m. 1985–1987; divorced)
Percy Gibson (m. 2002–present)

[Bender2]

Yvonne Craig! Gadzooks-- She really had that 1950/60ish full figure... Look--

that melted my heart and started my blood... flowing elsewhere from my brain!

Whether she was... Marta in "Whom Gods Destroy."

Batgirl saving... the day--

Or just the arm candy... in all those 50/60s TV series--

[Bratch]

Dick Powell also gave the best portrayal of Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe by any actor not named Humphrey Bogart.

[Oatka]

Photo No. 1 - THANK YOU! :-)

(The rest ain’t bad either.)

[Oatka]

“Who Mourns for Adonais?”

Loved Kirk’s dismissive line “We have other gods now.”

[VermiciousKnid]

Wait...I have to choose between Bendy and The Duke!??! Bestill my beating heart, what shall I do??

Best,

[martin_fierro]

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HELL
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