ST:TOS: Man Trap & Charlie X

[mizkit]

At the beginning of July all the Star Trek episodes became available on Netflix. I let out a squee heard ’round the world (it was, too, thanks to Twitter), because I’ve been wanting to watch it with Indy; I was a little younger than he was when I watched pretty well the entire original series (the, er, only series, at that point), and I think it’s

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[deborahblakehps]

I started watching when I was six. I know it is dated,but I still love it.

[mizkit]

I think five or six is a good age to watch it, because at that age you're still too young to realize how awful the special effects are, and it instills a life-long love of the show in you. :)

[deborahblakehps]

My parents watched it when it first came out, and that was how old I was :-)

[pers1stence]

The episode "Shore Leave" is a bit problematic on that front, just front...just as a heads-up...

[pers1stence]

What I wrote on FB during a sort-of-recent rematch of the ep: I love Star Trek (the original). I can roll my eyes at the green dancing girls, and Kirk sweeping every woman in range off her feet. But last night, I watched an episode (Shore Leave) that was even more terrible than usual. In the episode (written by Theodore Sturgeon, not some nameless studio hack), the crew lands on a planet that seems to be uninhabited, but which keeps manifesting people/characters/objects out of their thoughts. First, McCoy idly contemplates how the setting might be ideal for Alice in Wonderland, when lo, here comes the White Rabbit and Alice herself. Then Kirk remembers a bully/nemesis from Academy Days, who promptly appears and who punches Kirk to the ground. Shortly thereafter, the Yeoman-du-jour (who had started the episode giving Kirk a backrub but ends up being all girlfriend-y with McCoy by 15 minutes in) is off by herself and imagines running into Don Juan. She shrieks, then Jim and Bones run up to find her shaking, with the bodice of her mini-

[kevenn]

I just watched the entire series on Netflix this past year for the first time as an adult. I feel like those early episodes were really special. They were really progressive...and then it lost a lot of that as the series went on, which was a shame. There are some great episodes later, but those first few...when they still had Janice Rand on there. I feel like they were SAYING something.

And yeah, Shore Leave was TERRIBLE!