After I'd finished watching the episodes of Star Trek's second season I'd wanted to watch, I never quite got around to opening the third season collection I bought with the others and watching those handful of episodes I have an impression managed to transcend the straitened circumstances of the show's final go-round. That did get to me every so ( Read more... )

As I got to the end of my Blu-Ray set of the second season of Star Trek, I stepped away from watching what episodes I wanted to watch as they were ordered on the discs (which was how they'd been broadcast in 1967 and 1968, not the order they'd been produced in) to save just one episode for last. "The Ultimate Computer," in which Starfleet installs ( Read more... )

Approaching the end of the second season of Star Trek, I seemed to have again found a bit more to think about than I'd expected in "By Any Other Name." I'd known it involved the Enterprise being hijacked by aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy in human form and the major characters saving the day once more by means including Scotty managing to drink ( Read more... )

Even after getting Blu-Ray sets of the entire "Original Series," I still intended to be picky about what Star Trek episodes I watched. There were a few episodes on which I seemed sort of divided about whether to watch or not, though. I've somehow formed the impression "Patterns of Force" has become one of the "controversial" episodes through being ( Read more... )

There's just one episode of "The Original Series" on one of the Blu-Ray discs in the second season Star Trek collection. A partial explanation for this might be that "The Trouble With Tribbles" is augmented not just with "bonus content" but two follow-up episodes from later series. Before I bought the Blu-Ray sets I had watched my way through two " ( Read more... )

Having watched what I supposed a sufficient number of episodes from the first season set of Star Trek episodes, I opened up the second season set. I hadn't got around to watching the episodes I'd just recorded off cable from that season, although in looking at the lists of episodes on each disc I got wondering just how many of them I still intended ( Read more... )

When I was recording Star Trek episodes off cable, I skipped over "The Enemy Within," the one where a transporter malfunction splits Kirk into a good captain and an evil captain. The handful of sources I was looking at to get a sense of what were "the good episodes" all seemed to be showing righteous indignation that in the "light-hearted" coda at ( Read more... )

To get around to other things, I took a break from watching episodes of Star Trek. During that break, though, I noticed that Blu-Ray sets of "The Original Series" didn't seem that expensive at a local store, and in looking around a little I found a better price yet at which to upgrade from the soft-looking, cropped-to-widescreen DVDs I'd recorded ( Read more... )

I figured from the start that I wasn't going to comment on all of the Star Trek episodes I watched, but it does seem I keep being struck with unexpected ideas by at least some of them. That was the case with "This Side of Paradise," the episode "where Spock gets hits with happy space spores." There was at least a bit more to it, though.
( 'It's like a jigsaw puzzle all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.' )

In having already experienced a good number of Star Trek episodes through the "secondary source" of James Blish's short-story adaptations, I suppose I've had some favourites for quite a while now. One of those was "A Taste of Armageddon," in which Captain Kirk and his landing party get stranded on a world that's been fighting a war for five ( Read more... )