On the iTunes store, in TV Shows, one of the categories is "Drama & Sci-Fi".

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The Conscience Of The King: The actress who would do anything to protect her actor father shoots him with a phaser, apparently killing him, and "goes mad". Afterwards, it's reported that "she remembers nothing [and] even thinks her father's still alive". Uh huh. What happened to Karidian's body after he was shot? He faked his death once before...

Dagger Of The Mind: That first scene with Kirk and Helen Noel is waaaaaay too awkward to fit with her later claim that they all they did was dance and talk about the stars. No, the 'fake' story she suggested, with Kirk dragging her back to his quarters and seducing her was what really happened, and the tamer version what she preferred in retrospect ( Read more... )

What Are Little Girls Made Of?: This episode features Kirk wrestling with a seven foot tall bald guy over a three foot long bumpy foam penis. The lighting designer decided pink would be nice for that scene.

What the hell am I gonna add to that?

Ill-remembered plot synopses for Classic Star Trek Episodes. "Assignment: Earth": "This was a pilot for a new show that the network liked so much they not only didn't pick it up but they canceled Star Trek besides."

The Man Trap: So a monster has taken the form of your ex-girlfriend. You know it's not really her because the guy with the ears tried to take her down and she swatted him across the room like she was Sarah Michelle Gellar. She's about to kill your Captain and your friend. And you hesitate to fire the phaser in your hand. Yeah, right. I think there ( Read more... )

"Mudd's Women": God, this was painful to watch. It's amazing what a difference 40 years of feminism can make. You've come a long way, baby. This episode may have taught me, however, that beauty comes from confidence. And the lesson that 'lack of makeup' == 'ugliness' doesn't seem to have taken. So. I don't really have a deep and extensive retcon ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here watching classic original Star Treks. They're gloriously cheesy.

I'm inventing epilogues or back stories or side stories that totally undermine the original storyline for each episode -- the way Niven ruined the Beowulf Shaeffer stories from Neutron Star with the framing story in Crashlander. (Retconning, that's the word.)

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I just woke up from a dream in which I was reading the V. Secret Blog of Tricia Helfer (or possibly Six) in which she confessed to be having an affair with Jorge Garcia (or possibly Hurley), in the process cheating on crisper (or possibly Crisper ( Read more... )