This one has just never worked for me.
I blame the script first. The whole concept forces every character into idiot plotting. The princess somehow doesn't know what she's getting into it. The leaders of the planets sent her into this knowing what a b-word she is. Starfleet is r-slurred enough to get involved.
Second the princess needs to deliver a really commanding performance here and it doesn't work for me. France Nuyen was a pretty accomplished actress. I think she did all right with what she was given. But that was a bad script, bad costume (very rare in TOS), terrible wig. Her motives flip around wildly.
Typical 3rd season TOS. Just going through the motions without really having any interesting ideas.
!trekkies if anyone sees some hidden virtue in the episode then change my view.
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You should do some Enterprise reviews
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I've only seen the first season I think. Every other series is constantly in your face but Enterprise I apparently am going to have to make a real effort to pirate.
I don't get why. First season isn't epic but it's interesting.
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Fake fan
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We all have a point where we decide canon ends. For my dad that was in the 1960s. Maybe that makes him realer.
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my uncle loved star trek so much he spent like $15k on a huge flat screen TV when they cost insane amounts of money just so he could watch this one movie where starfleet rebels or smth at home
now he's divorced
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I don't think I've seen an entire TOS episode before. Are they worth watching?
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They're way smarter than anything made in Hollywood today (except for some of these half-assed episodes at the end).
And if you think it looks hokey, just imagine it's a local minimalist arthouse stage play but really really well done.
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Absolutely. You might cry and shit your pants because they're actually about ideas that are timeless. There's about 70 episodes and about 1/3 are actually meaningful and thought provoking. The bad ones are at least fun bad.
If you feel the urge to say the acting is "corny" or something, my neighbor Shatner was doing The Life of Suzie Wong on Broadway before your grandparents accidentally conceived your parent.
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Thank you, Star Trek review person.
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This is the episode where
it turns out the foid's necklace is made from dilithium crystals and Scotty figures out how to refine them to fix the warp core and save the ship from the Klingon ship which is buzzing around. He then announces that this formula "would make a good whiskey mixer" and disappears from the bridge, apparently to go and get drunk 
during battle 
stations which I guess 
waylays any argument 
that he wasn't a real Scotsman.
The Klingon ship (the 'D7 Battlecruiser') was first
seen in this season. The show had undergone massive budget cuts and could only afford this new model 
because a toy company had agreed to design and pay for the model 
effects if they could make toys of both the D7 and the USS Enterprise.
But yes, you are right- this episode is a bit shit.
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I didn't know that but it makes sense. The damaged ships you see in season 2 are just models from the store where somebody burned them with a
cigarette lighterphaser.I've always been a fan of the D7.
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TOS had several good spaceship
designs way above par for 1960s TV. My favorite, the Romulan Bird of Prey, was damaged by it's creator Wa Cheng (he'd designed it as a one-off prop and had drunkenly wrecked it in his own work shop in stereotypical Chinese 
fashion) and that's why the Romulans are flying 
in D7s in 'The Enterprise 
Incident'.
Still, it's the Lambo of the show IMO.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pedophilia-and-star-trek_b_5857/amp
Makes sense
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Probably written by a Farscape fan. Fascinating how they're so into puppets.
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Lol, can you explain how you know about the idea of time travel but we haven't got the science done yet?
You fricken libertarian
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There is one positive aspect to that episode. Despite the producers describing Kirk and Elaan's relationship as a "love story", the way Shatner acted the scenes after being influenced by her tears makes it clear that he, at least, realized the whole thing was essentially an attempted r*pe. Kirk comes off as more than a little disgusted by his own attraction to her, something he never displays during any of his other "relationships".
The episode is pretty bad, though. It's one of the few instances where the TNG "remake" (The Perfect Mate) is better.
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It really is time for a MeToo movement after he's been forced to save the ship this way about 10 times.
Was reminded this. And a conversation I once had with Groomercordnaut NMJ about that episode that fully opened my eyes to it.
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Star Trek Terms of service?
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