My personal favorite moment from the episode, Uhura's HILARIOUS fall toward the camera:
Posted on 05/26/2025 6:59:35 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
If you are not the body, you will be absorbed.
Early democrats?
My personal favorite moment from the episode, Uhura's HILARIOUS fall toward the camera:
of the body
I disliked the TNG one where they were cloned to populate a dying civilization. Not that they shouldn’t have been upset, but they turned their outrage into, “my body, my choice”, which was an obvious nod to abortion rights.
Whichever one had Yvonne Craig painted green
Agreed
“I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Computer, erase log…”
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I liked “What are Little Girls Made Of” with Ted Cassidy.
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That episode was "Up The Long Ladder", written by Melinda Snodgrass, and it was DEFINITELY meant to insult the pro-life movement. In her own words:
"I got enormous flack from the right to life coalition because they destroyed the clones. They thought I was condoning abortion. In fact, I did put a line in Riker's mouth that was very pro-choice and the right to life coalition went crazy. He says "I told you that you can't clone me and you did it against my will, and I have the right to have control over my own body." That's my feeling and it was my soapbox, and it was one I got to get on.
Thanks for posting this. At 74 I remember the original Star Trek well. Great stuff!
One of my favorites was Requiem for Methuselah mostly for McCoy’s speech to Spock at the end.
“MCCOY: Well, I guess that’s all. I can tell Jim later or you can. Considering his opponent’s longevity, truly an eternal triangle. You wouldn’t understand that, would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know simply because the word love isn’t written into your book. Goodnight, Spock.”
#2. Metamorphosis ⏱️
“You know why you’re not afraid to die, Spock? You’re more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip, and let your Human half peek out.
That’s it, isn’t it? Why, you wouldn’t know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.
Spock: Really, Doctor?
Dr. McCoy: I know. I’m worried about Jim, too.
-—Bread and Circuses
McCoy’s interaction with Spock always produced the best writing
Thanks
I recall that she became the 2nd woman to fly solo (in a single-engine plane?) from Europe to the U.S. . Quiet an intelligent woman!
Deterred, detoured, or detained?
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