And, personally, I love Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle (even if he only appears once). The captain should always take his entire command crew down to a planet and leave random people in charge of the ship.
I just saw an interesting prompt at st_tos_kink with interesing reactions to it. (The prompt was based on the prompter not getting why everyone thought McCoy would be traumatised by getting mind raped by Mirror!Spock when obviously He Was Fine By The End Of The Episode.) One of the replies to it was thatdue to the nature of TOS storytelling, by the end of an episode, a character would be either fine or dead. This episode is another good example of it.
ROFL This really isn’t one of the better episodes. I was quite bored throughout it, even though a Kirk in chains in a dungeon should be interesting (did you ever notice that it was always the same manacles in every episode? And then there was an episode where the dungeon was PINK. I scratched my head at that)
Anyway, your recap makes the episode very funny! I also had noticed this being a rare (only one?) case of Kirk not going on the planet at first. One wonders if the author ever had seen Star Trek before.
And I agree, the American Civil War Planet was indeed cringe-worthy.
Also, I want to congratulate you on your English. I’m not a native speaker either (obviously) so wouldn’t spot any real mistakes but this is clearly above the usual stuff. And quite funny. You really have a way with words. If only our English teachers could see us now?
I didn't notice that manacle-thing. Well observed!
If only our teachers could see us, indeed! Mine used to give me bad marks for pronounciation reasons. I speak English with a heavy German accent, imagine that. :P
I didn't notice that manacle-thing. Well observed!
I was reminded of Schuh des Manitu and “Jeden zweiten Tag san mir irgendwo gefesselt!“ It really seemed to happen a lot. And they really didn’t seem to be bothered that much by it.
Being from Eastern Germany, I had to learn Russian in school. Most I have forgotten now that I don’t use it as much anymore. English was voluntary, after school. I guess none of us really thought we could ever properly use it? Since travelling was so limited? I fought with grammar, and I fought with pronouncation. I later realized the reason for that was that they tried to teach us the Oxford English. Once I started to watch Stargate and realized they speak just like us, it made things easier. Of course now with being a fan of Torchwood and John Barrowman, I started to like the British English as well as Welsh or Scottish.
And if my teacher indeed could see me, travelling to the UK several times a year, going to the theatre even… but I think she would be very confused of sentences like “We can has
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Heh. Oxfort is for beginners. Lolspeak is for experts. :P (Though I doubt any English teacher would agree. Still, you need to have a grasp on the language to be able to willfully criple it.)
I struggled with Oxford English, too, but I think that's mostly because the texts the had us read in school were so boring that I was lacking motivation. In the end, fanfic was a much better teacher.
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And, personally, I love Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle (even if he only appears once). The captain should always take his entire command crew down to a planet and leave random people in charge of the ship.
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I was thinking the same thing.
In this regard, fanfiction often does the job the series failed to do.
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Anyway, your recap makes the episode very funny! I also had noticed this being a rare (only one?) case of Kirk not going on the planet at first. One wonders if the author ever had seen Star Trek before.
And I agree, the American Civil War Planet was indeed cringe-worthy.
Also, I want to congratulate you on your English. I’m not a native speaker either (obviously) so wouldn’t spot any real mistakes but this is clearly above the usual stuff. And quite funny. You really have a way with words. If only our English teachers could see us now?
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If only our teachers could see us, indeed! Mine used to give me bad marks for pronounciation reasons. I speak English with a heavy German accent, imagine that. :P
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I was reminded of Schuh des Manitu and “Jeden zweiten Tag san mir irgendwo gefesselt!“ It really seemed to happen a lot. And they really didn’t seem to be bothered that much by it.
Being from Eastern Germany, I had to learn Russian in school. Most I have forgotten now that I don’t use it as much anymore. English was voluntary, after school. I guess none of us really thought we could ever properly use it? Since travelling was so limited? I fought with grammar, and I fought with pronouncation. I later realized the reason for that was that they tried to teach us the Oxford English. Once I started to watch Stargate and realized they speak just like us, it made things easier. Of course now with being a fan of Torchwood and John Barrowman, I started to like the British English as well as Welsh or Scottish.
And if my teacher indeed could see me, travelling to the UK several times a year, going to the theatre even… but I think she would be very confused of sentences like “We can has ( ... )
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(Though I doubt any English teacher would agree. Still, you need to have a grasp on the language to be able to willfully criple it.)
I struggled with Oxford English, too, but I think that's mostly because the texts the had us read in school were so boring that I was lacking motivation. In the end, fanfic was a much better teacher.
You speak Welsh? That's impressive!
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