Bud Brewster
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Today it's all about Star Trek TOS on the Featured Threads, with posts about three fine episodes from our favorite series which offers its unique "vision of the future". 
Tells us what you think about the big lizard who kick Jim's ass, the Princess Bitch who stole Kirk's heart, and the vacation that nearly got the crew killed! 
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TOS episode #19 - Arena
Opening Statement: | johnnybear wrote: | | In James Blish's version of the story in Star Trek II the Gorn does mention that the only edible thing on the asteroid is Kirk himself! Whether that was part of the original script, I'd doubt it, as the story was about a challenge between two space empires refereed by a superior Godlike race! |
I question the morality of these "god-like" beings. 
They said they would destroy the ship of the captain who lost the battle. Apparently they felt that whichever being was the smartest and the most ruthless deserved to survive.
TOS episode #57 - Elaan of Troyius
Opening Statement: Well damn, you got me cold, Johnny! I certainly can't defend the poor job the CGI guys did on this episode. 
All but a few of the new FX they created are inferior to the original ones — and for exactly the reasons you described! I've never liked the slate-gray color of the Enterprise in the CGI versions, and in this episode they also make the Klingon ship look far less appealing than it is in the original FX!
If Scotpens had cited this episode as an example of why he dislikes the CGI FX, he'd have completely shattered my claims that they're better than the orignal FX! 
~ Folks, watch the YouTube video below and you'll see how right JB is in his post above.
_____ Visual Effects Comparison - Elaan of Troyius
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Shore Leave - episode #17
Opening Statement: Johnny, I think you might be absolutely right on all counts!
As for Shatner wanting to show us that Big Jim Kirk was tough as nailS, I'm also sure that Roddenberry and the script writer were equally eager to give Star Trek's predominately male audience a fantasy version of how they could beat the shit out of that bully who was intimidating them at school. 
I can easily identify with that.
In fact, in the first chapter of my novel The Hero Experience the main character (Brad Jones) wins a schoolyard fight with a bully named Clayton Denault.
The scene in the novel is based on a fight I had in high school with a boy named Kelton DeJarnett. He and I entertained a large crowd of blood-thirsty teenagers who watched us slug it out on the schoolyard grounds near a decorative artillery piece which the county officials actually thought beautified the campus in 1967!
I actually won that fight . . . but only because both Kelton and I "hit like girls".
And that, folks, is how writers work out their childhood issues — they glorify themselves by creating fantasy versions who star in imaginative novels.
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