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Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #160029] Mi, 02 November 2005 06:22
shnaggletooth  
AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a
Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
ending even more surprising.
Grade: B+

WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
They should have stuck with that.
Grade: B-

THE CHANGELING: At least Nomad doesn't self-destruct in a bunch of
smoke and flying sprockets. But this episode comes close to that kind
of cliche.
Grade: B-

MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
performance in TOS.
Grade: A

THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their
men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only
the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
Grade: C

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A

CATSPAW: This was the Halloween episode for TOS, aired on Oct.27, 1967.
Sylvia is NOT one of the more attactive TOS women villians (or, at
least she wasn't attractive the way they made her hair, etc.). Cliched
bad guy-turns good-lets heroes out of the dungeon story. I did like the
miniature Enterprise in the ice-cube. Grade: C+

I, Mudd: (I have yet to watch this.)

METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
Grade: B+

JOURNEY TO BABEL: One of the very best. McCoy directly addresses the
viewing audience at the very end! Grade: A

FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
Captain?"
Grade: B+

THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C

OBSESSION: Why is there such a big deal between Kirk and Spock and
McCoy over whether or not the creature is "intelligent" or not? It has
to be stopped, anyway, right? And McCoy was right - Kirk's bad handling
of the situation did cost the life of at least one red shirt. Grade: B-

WOLF IN THE FOLD: Grade: B

THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES: Those Klingons are beginning to look more
and more like humans. Grade: A-

THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing party
of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save this
episode.
Grade: C-

A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A-

THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
altogether bad. Grade: B+

A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR: Sort of like "Friday's Child", as Klingons
interfere with a somewhat primitive planet. Like that episode, this one
is gritty: blood-healing, the beginning of a gang-rape, etc. Good idea
not to have a happy ending. Grade: B+

RETURN TO TOMORROW: Similar to "Metamorphosis" in theme, even sharing
the same swirling, romantic music. Like that episode, Kirk acts in a
very disturbing, atypical way: given the limitless possibilities of
something going wrong, he agrees to the body exchange?! If something
should happen to you and your first officer, Captain, what happens to
your crew and the Enterprise?! For once, McCoy is correct in his
judgement of the situation. Nimoy plays the villian perfectly. Grade:
B+

PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until the
moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After that,
everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-

BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
though. Grade: C+

THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but gets
destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one goes
downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.
Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B

THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER: The only TOS episode where Kirk's beating the
computer seems to make sense (in my opinion). Grade: A-

BREAD AND CIRCUSES: Grade: B-

ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
mystery even in your time". Grade: A-

Shnaggletooth
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #160034 ] Mi, 02 November 2005 14:49
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article 1130908962.364122.316120 [at] g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/1/05 10:22
PM:

> AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a
> Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
> ending even more surprising.
> Grade: B+

Oh, a solid A for me, and a great start for the season.
>
> WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
> blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
> Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
> They should have stuck with that.
> Grade: B-

C at best for me. Giant hand is cool, but that's about it.
>
> THE CHANGELING: At least Nomad doesn't self-destruct in a bunch of
> smoke and flying sprockets. But this episode comes close to that kind
> of cliche.
> Grade: B-

B. worked okay.
>
> MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
> bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
> Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
> performance in TOS.
> Grade: A

A+
>
> THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their
> men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
> never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only
> the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
> of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
> Grade: C

C-. One of the few first 2 season eps I won't watch if I flip past it.
Vaal is cool, the episode is awful.
>
> THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A

Another A+
>
> CATSPAW: This was the Halloween episode for TOS, aired on Oct.27, 1967.
> Sylvia is NOT one of the more attactive TOS women villians (or, at
> least she wasn't attractive the way they made her hair, etc.). Cliched
> bad guy-turns good-lets heroes out of the dungeon story. I did like the
> miniature Enterprise in the ice-cube. Grade: C+

And that the evil aliens were actually Dr. Suess characters. C.
>
> I, Mudd: (I have yet to watch this.)

It was a B at the time; hasn't aged that well.
>
> METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
> disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
> for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
> some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
> Grade: B+

Commissioner Hedford was dead at that point. She didn't really have a lot
of choice.
>
> JOURNEY TO BABEL: One of the very best. McCoy directly addresses the
> viewing audience at the very end! Grade: A

Excellent episode. A.
>
> FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
> handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
> Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
> trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
> Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
> Captain?"
> Grade: B+

agreed
>
> THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C

Agreed
>
> OBSESSION: Why is there such a big deal between Kirk and Spock and
> McCoy over whether or not the creature is "intelligent" or not? It has
> to be stopped, anyway, right? And McCoy was right - Kirk's bad handling
> of the situation did cost the life of at least one red shirt. Grade: B-

Good point. Jack the Ripper was clearly intelligent, and had less of a body
count than this thing, and they didn't hesitate to kill it (and it's
helpless host).
>
> WOLF IN THE FOLD: Grade: B

B+. And Scotty literally got away with murder!
>
> THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES: Those Klingons are beginning to look more
> and more like humans. Grade: A-

yep
>
> THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing party
> of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save this
> episode.
> Grade: C-

Pretty bad. Too bad it's the one people remember. C (up a bit from yours
for Chekov getting a transexual drill thrall.
>
> A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A-

yep
>
> THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
> But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
> altogether bad. Grade: B+

A
>
> A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR: Sort of like "Friday's Child", as Klingons
> interfere with a somewhat primitive planet. Like that episode, this one
> is gritty: blood-healing, the beginning of a gang-rape, etc. Good idea
> not to have a happy ending. Grade: B+

Solid A. Gumatus, witch women, torn moralities, got it all.
>
> RETURN TO TOMORROW: Similar to "Metamorphosis" in theme, even sharing
> the same swirling, romantic music. Like that episode, Kirk acts in a
> very disturbing, atypical way: given the limitless possibilities of
> something going wrong, he agrees to the body exchange?! If something
> should happen to you and your first officer, Captain, what happens to
> your crew and the Enterprise?! For once, McCoy is correct in his
> judgement of the situation. Nimoy plays the villian perfectly. Grade:
> B+

I've always had a soft spot for Sargon and company. A-
>
> PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until the
> moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After that,
> everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-

I like it. B for me.
>
> BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
> Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
> for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
> though. Grade: C+

yeah
>
> THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but gets
> destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one goes
> downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
> a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
> between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
> being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
> thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.
> Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B

And it gave us the viewmaster!
>
> THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER: The only TOS episode where Kirk's beating the
> computer seems to make sense (in my opinion). Grade: A-
>
> BREAD AND CIRCUSES: Grade: B-

B+
>
> ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
> Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
> when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
> mystery even in your time". Grade: A-

Check out the Brian Cox EUGENICS WARS for the adventures of Gary, Roberta,
and Isis. Robert Lansing rocked!
>
> Shnaggletooth
>

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162175 ] So, 06 November 2005 07:16
Graeme  
"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net> wrote in message
news:BF8E11DD.5A7F3%ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net...
> in article 1130908962.364122.316120 [at] g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
> shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/1/05 10:22
> PM:
>
> > AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a
> > Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
> > ending even more surprising.
> > Grade: B+
>
> Oh, a solid A for me, and a great start for the season.

Yeah, I'd give it an A also. It does seem like a serious flaw though,
that Starfleet doesn't know that Vulcans might sometimes have to go
home pronto, no questions asked. Maybe they were still thinking at
this point that Spock was the only Vulcan in Starfleet. That sure
wasn't the case in Immunity Syndrome, though.



> >
> > WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
> > blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
> > Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
> > They should have stuck with that.
> > Grade: B-
>
> C at best for me. Giant hand is cool, but that's about it.

Pink gown is cool, giant hand is stupid. This is the first "blithering
idiot" episode for Scotty. All through Season 1, he was nearly as
reserved as Spock. Then, starting with this episode he became the
"excitable repairman" that Hodin talked about.



> > MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
> > bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
> > Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
> > performance in TOS.
> > Grade: A
>
> A+

Yeah, though it's a lot campier than it seemed when I was a kid.



> > THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their
> > men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
> > never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only
> > the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
> > of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
> > Grade: C
>
> C-. One of the few first 2 season eps I won't watch if I flip past it.
> Vaal is cool, the episode is awful.

I like the Security Guard holocaust. All the scenes with Chekov and
the Yeoman make my skin crawl, though. Leave the horndog stuff to the
Captain, son.

Every time they beamed down to a planet with a tree on it, they thought
it was Paradise. Then when they got bored, they decided that Paradise
wasn't so great after all. Another big cliche in this episode is
Mallory's father helping Kirk get into the academy. Kirk seemed to
have networked with half the galaxy while he was at school.



> > THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A
>
> Another A+

Even the AMT Model Kit can't hurt this episode.



> > FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
> > handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
> > Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
> > trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
> > Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
> > Captain?"
> > Grade: B+
>
> agreed
> >

Tige Andrews was, without a doubt, the most boring Klingon of all time.


> > THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C
>
> Agreed
> >

Yeah, but I sort of like it anyway. Not sure why. Maybe because
Chekov gets tortured in sickbay.



> > THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing party
> > of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save this
> > episode.
> > Grade: C-
>
> Pretty bad. Too bad it's the one people remember. C (up a bit from yours
> for Chekov getting a transexual drill thrall.

Bad enough to be a 3rd season episode. Maybe the first real piece of
Star Dreck the show ever did.

Love the hokey "The stars! Those points of light in the sky!" speech.
"Oops, forgot about the Prime Directive. Forget what I said. Just
forget it!"



> > A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A-
>
> yep

I've got a beef with this episode. Why did they leave Oxmyx in charge?
Just because they met him first? At least Kracko tried to play fair
with them. I thought he should have got the top job.


> > THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
> > But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
> > altogether bad. Grade: B+
>
> A

Good one. Spock senses a great disturbance in the Force as the
Intrepid is destroyed, as though 430 Vulcan souls had cried out in...
something or other.


> > PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until the
> > moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After that,
> > everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-
>
> I like it. B for me.

I used to like this one. But Gill is a total idiot, who doesn't know
his history very well, and had some bizarre idea that dictatorships
were super-efficient and that there was some magic in the swastikas and
uniforms that would make anyone who used them successful. Subcutaneous
transponders were a good idea. Too good, since they had to forget
about them immediately. It would have been better to make him a
Captain Tracy-like villain, because the attempt to make him a tragic
hero fails miserably. He's a total smeghead.



> > BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
> > Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
> > for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
> > though. Grade: C+
>
> yeah

Not to mention that the Enterprise is no longer a super ship capable of
travelling Warp 11 next week. Oh well, easy come, easy go. Nice
continuity with Where No Man Has Gone Before, though.



> > THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but gets
> > destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one goes
> > downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
> > a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
> > between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
> > being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
> > thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.
> > Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B
>
> And it gave us the viewmaster!

It was a really good episode right up to the moment Cloud William said
"free-dohm?" From that second on, whoosh, right into the zero-g
crapper.


> > ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
> > Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
> > when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
> > mystery even in your time". Grade: A-

Nah, the series that came out of this wouldn't have been very good.
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162184 ] So, 06 November 2005 15:21
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article 1131257770.733755.294120 [at] g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, Graeme at
graemecree [at] aol.com wrote on 11/5/05 11:16 PM:

>
> "ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net> wrote in message
> news:BF8E11DD.5A7F3%ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net...
>> in article 1130908962.364122.316120 [at] g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
>> shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/1/05 10:22
>> PM:
>>
>>> AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a
>>> Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
>>> ending even more surprising.
>>> Grade: B+
>>
>> Oh, a solid A for me, and a great start for the season.
>
> Yeah, I'd give it an A also. It does seem like a serious flaw though,
> that Starfleet doesn't know that Vulcans might sometimes have to go
> home pronto, no questions asked. Maybe they were still thinking at
> this point that Spock was the only Vulcan in Starfleet. That sure
> wasn't the case in Immunity Syndrome, though.

No, but that was an ALL Vulcan ship. They might well have ways of dealing
with these things that a lone Vulcan doesn't.
>
>
>
>>>
>>> WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
>>> blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
>>> Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
>>> They should have stuck with that.
>>> Grade: B-
>>
>> C at best for me. Giant hand is cool, but that's about it.
>
> Pink gown is cool, giant hand is stupid. This is the first "blithering
> idiot" episode for Scotty. All through Season 1, he was nearly as
> reserved as Spock. Then, starting with this episode he became the
> "excitable repairman" that Hodin talked about.
>
>
>
>>> MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
>>> bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
>>> Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
>>> performance in TOS.
>>> Grade: A
>>
>> A+
>
> Yeah, though it's a lot campier than it seemed when I was a kid.
>
>
>
>>> THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their
>>> men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
>>> never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only
>>> the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
>>> of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
>>> Grade: C
>>
>> C-. One of the few first 2 season eps I won't watch if I flip past it.
>> Vaal is cool, the episode is awful.
>
> I like the Security Guard holocaust. All the scenes with Chekov and
> the Yeoman make my skin crawl, though. Leave the horndog stuff to the
> Captain, son.
>
> Every time they beamed down to a planet with a tree on it, they thought
> it was Paradise. Then when they got bored, they decided that Paradise
> wasn't so great after all. Another big cliche in this episode is
> Mallory's father helping Kirk get into the academy. Kirk seemed to
> have networked with half the galaxy while he was at school.
>
>
>
>>> THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A
>>
>> Another A+
>
> Even the AMT Model Kit can't hurt this episode.
>
>
>
>>> FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
>>> handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
>>> Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
>>> trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
>>> Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
>>> Captain?"
>>> Grade: B+
>>
>> agreed
>>>
>
> Tige Andrews was, without a doubt, the most boring Klingon of all time.
>
>
>>> THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C
>>
>> Agreed
>>>
>
> Yeah, but I sort of like it anyway. Not sure why. Maybe because
> Chekov gets tortured in sickbay.
>
>
>
>>> THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing party
>>> of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save this
>>> episode.
>>> Grade: C-
>>
>> Pretty bad. Too bad it's the one people remember. C (up a bit from yours
>> for Chekov getting a transexual drill thrall.
>
> Bad enough to be a 3rd season episode. Maybe the first real piece of
> Star Dreck the show ever did.
>
> Love the hokey "The stars! Those points of light in the sky!" speech.
> "Oops, forgot about the Prime Directive. Forget what I said. Just
> forget it!"
>
>
>
>>> A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A-
>>
>> yep
>
> I've got a beef with this episode. Why did they leave Oxmyx in charge?
> Just because they met him first? At least Kracko tried to play fair
> with them. I thought he should have got the top job.

Agreed. Although wasn't Oxmyx the strongest leader? If they'd have put
Kracko in charge (and suddenly I'm singing a Scott Baio theme song) Oxmyx
would have attacked him within a week. The other way around, it was
probably more stable.
>
>
>>> THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
>>> But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
>>> altogether bad. Grade: B+
>>
>> A
>
> Good one. Spock senses a great disturbance in the Force as the
> Intrepid is destroyed, as though 430 Vulcan souls had cried out in...
> something or other.

Doctor, even I, a half-Vulcan,
could hear the death scream of 400 Vulcan minds
crying out over the distance between us.
Not even a Vulcan could feel a starship die.
Call it a deep understanding
of the way things happen to Vulcans,
but I know not a person,
not even the computers on board the Intrepid,
knew what was killing them
or would have understood it had they known.
>
>
>>> PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until the
>>> moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After that,
>>> everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-
>>
>> I like it. B for me.
>
> I used to like this one. But Gill is a total idiot, who doesn't know
> his history very well, and had some bizarre idea that dictatorships
> were super-efficient and that there was some magic in the swastikas and
> uniforms that would make anyone who used them successful. Subcutaneous
> transponders were a good idea. Too good, since they had to forget
> about them immediately. It would have been better to make him a
> Captain Tracy-like villain, because the attempt to make him a tragic
> hero fails miserably. He's a total smeghead.
>
>
>
>>> BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
>>> Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
>>> for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
>>> though. Grade: C+
>>
>> yeah
>
> Not to mention that the Enterprise is no longer a super ship capable of
> travelling Warp 11 next week. Oh well, easy come, easy go. Nice
> continuity with Where No Man Has Gone Before, though.

Except for DC completely blowing the 'negative energy' bit.
>
>
>
>>> THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but gets
>>> destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one goes
>>> downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
>>> a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
>>> between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
>>> being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
>>> thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.
>>> Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B
>>
>> And it gave us the viewmaster!
>
> It was a really good episode right up to the moment Cloud William said
> "free-dohm?" From that second on, whoosh, right into the zero-g
> crapper.
>
>
>>> ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
>>> Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
>>> when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
>>> mystery even in your time". Grade: A-
>
> Nah, the series that came out of this wouldn't have been very good.
>

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162185 ] So, 06 November 2005 18:08
shnaggletooth  
ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> >
> > METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
> > disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
> > for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
> > some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
> > Grade: B+
>
> Commissioner Hedford was dead at that point. She didn't really have a lot
> of choice.

Then her death would have been all the Companion's fault, because it
wouldn't let the shuttlecraft and the crew reach the Starbase in time.

Shnaggletooth
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162186 ] So, 06 November 2005 18:16
shnaggletooth  
Graeme wrote:
> > > WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
> > > blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
> > > Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
> > > They should have stuck with that.
> > > Grade: B-
> >
> > C at best for me. Giant hand is cool, but that's about it.
>
> Pink gown is cool, giant hand is stupid. This is the first "blithering
> idiot" episode for Scotty. All through Season 1, he was nearly as
> reserved as Spock. Then, starting with this episode he became the
> "excitable repairman" that Hodin talked about.


"Tribbles" was another classic "clueless Scotty" episode: "That gives
me a chance to catch up on my technical journals! Why thank you,
Captain!"

>
> > > FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
> > > handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
> > > Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
> > > trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
> > > Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
> > > Captain?"
> > > Grade: B+
> >
> > agreed
> > >
>
> Tige Andrews was, without a doubt, the most boring Klingon of all time.

I thought he was pretty good. He sure was a murderous Klingon, stabbing
a man when he was down, advocating that the landing party be killed.

>
> > > THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
> > > But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
> > > altogether bad. Grade: B+
> >
> > A
>
> Good one. Spock senses a great disturbance in the Force as the
> Intrepid is destroyed, as though 430 Vulcan souls had cried out in...
> something or other.

And then Spock socks it to Bones with a great speech on human
ridiculousness.

Shnaggletooth
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162187 ] So, 06 November 2005 18:30
Bozo the Evil Klown  
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote:
> AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a
> Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
> ending even more surprising.
> Grade: B+
>


Our first look at Vulcan culture; we see that underneath their
practiced emotional control that they're as passionate as Romulans.

> WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
> blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
> Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
> They should have stuck with that.
> Grade: B-
>


Nice cheesecake (good example of the Theiss Tittilation Theory) but it
made Scotty look like he ha da worse drinking problem than all the eps
where they actually showed him drinking.

> THE CHANGELING: At least Nomad doesn't self-destruct in a bunch of
> smoke and flying sprockets. But this episode comes close to that kind
> of cliche.
> Grade: B-
>


But the pacing here was infinitely better than the remake, "Star Trek:
The Motionless Picture."

> MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
> bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
> Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
> performance in TOS.
> Grade: A
>


As much as I loathed the DS9 Moron Universe follow-ups, this is a
genuine classic (They even had a real sci fi writer). Evil Spock was
done just perfectly, Uhura in a halter-
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only possible way ti improve
it would have been to kill Spock's Goatee of Evil before it made its
way to Reed's face in ENT "Twilight."

> THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their
> men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
> never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only
> the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
> of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
> Grade: C
>


A whole planet worshipping Godzilla- where was Nick Adams?

> THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A
>


A++ Even hacked up on the SciFi reruns this one still grabs me after
all these years.

> CATSPAW: This was the Halloween episode for TOS, aired on Oct.27, 1967.
> Sylvia is NOT one of the more attactive TOS women villians (or, at
> least she wasn't attractive the way they made her hair, etc.). Cliched
> bad guy-turns good-lets heroes out of the dungeon story. I did like the
> miniature Enterprise in the ice-cube. Grade: C+
>


Maybe a decent Halloween show.

> I, Mudd: (I have yet to watch this.)
>


Some of the humor got over the top at times, but still far superior to
any latter-day Trek attempt at comedy (And no I don't mean that as
faint praise).

> METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
> disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
> for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
> some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
> Grade: B+
>


I always had a soft spot for non-humanoid aliens; at least the blending
improved Hedford's personality. Then again, a Goa'uld would have
improved her personality.

> JOURNEY TO BABEL: One of the very best. McCoy directly addresses the
> viewing audience at the very end! Grade: A
>


AN ambitious episode- but they carried it off very well. Definitely on
the Classics list.

> FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
> handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and
> Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
> trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
> Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
> Captain?"
> Grade: B+
>


I wouldn't call it underrated; that was the single least memorable
Klingon ever- and I've seen every DS9 ep.

> THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C
>


I wouldn't call it a "decent" idea; only the talents of the make-up
department and the cast saved it. Yeah, lets take a shortcut through
Romulan space- they won't mind!! That guy should have been named
Janeway...

> OBSESSION: Why is there such a big deal between Kirk and Spock and
> McCoy over whether or not the creature is "intelligent" or not? It has
> to be stopped, anyway, right? And McCoy was right - Kirk's bad handling
> of the situation did cost the life of at least one red shirt. Grade: B-
>


My take was the issue of it's intelligence was whether Kirk was
actually getting 'impressions' from the thing's mind- if it didn't have
a mind, then Kirk's memories were just delusions brought on from oxygen
starvation. I liked this one for Kirk's obsessing over his hesitation
as a younger officer.

> WOLF IN THE FOLD: Grade: B
>


Now Argelius is *my* idea of a pleasure planet; infinitely better than
all the latter-day Risa crapfests.

> THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES: Those Klingons are beginning to look more
> and more like humans. Grade: A-
>


I still love the scene where Kirk and Spock beam over to the station,
carrying the tribbles on the transporter pads with them.

> THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing party
> of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save this
> episode.
> Grade: C-
>


Certainly MST-worthy. The only high point was Kirk's chick's silver
bikini.

> A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A-
>


"I'd advise yez to keep dialin' Oxmyx." LOLOLOLOL

> THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move slowly.
> But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft can be
> altogether bad. Grade: B+
>


Very underrated; I can overlook the idea of an amoeba big enough to
crush itself under its own weight for the wonderful Spock/McCoy
interactions. A+

> A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR: Sort of like "Friday's Child", as Klingons
> interfere with a somewhat primitive planet. Like that episode, this one
> is gritty: blood-healing, the beginning of a gang-rape, etc. Good idea
> not to have a happy ending. Grade: B+
>


Yes: Kirk has to make a tough decision- and then stick with it, with no
magic treknobabble to give him a happy-happy ending like you *know*
they'd have done on TNG or Vger.

> RETURN TO TOMORROW: Similar to "Metamorphosis" in theme, even sharing
> the same swirling, romantic music. Like that episode, Kirk acts in a
> very disturbing, atypical way: given the limitless possibilities of
> something going wrong, he agrees to the body exchange?! If something
> should happen to you and your first officer, Captain, what happens to
> your crew and the Enterprise?! For once, McCoy is correct in his
> judgement of the situation. Nimoy plays the villian perfectly. Grade:
> B+
>


Yes, something could always go wrong... but "Risk is our business."

> PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until the
> moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After that,
> everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-
>


Everything was okay until the opening credits... a freaking
***HISTORIAN*** doesn't realize that the Nazis are not nice
people?????????????????????????????????

> BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
> Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
> for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
> though. Grade: C+
>


Kind of soft at the end, yes- but solid sci fi: The alien weapons, the
aliens themselves having to adapt to using one of our ships, having to
upgrade the engines for intergalactic travel (did those upgrades wind
up in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant and the stolen
cloaking device?).

> THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but gets
> destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one goes
> downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
> a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
> between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
> being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
> thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.
> Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B
>


Hodgkins Law of Parallel Evolution postulates that you can save time
and money on set construction by having a planet mimic terrestrial
historic developments.

> THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER: The only TOS episode where Kirk's beating the
> computer seems to make sense (in my opinion). Grade: A-
>


Another one that still grips me- and one of the few where talking the
computer to death actually made sense in the story's context.

> BREAD AND CIRCUSES: Grade: B-
>


C-, and my grade was only that high for the Spock/McCoy scene.

> ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
> Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
> when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
> mystery even in your time". Grade: A-
>


I've always wondered what that series could have turned into... but
then, "Voyager" had potentially one of the most gripping concepts in
the franchise. Sometimes it's better to see a show with low potential
meet its goals than to see iso-tons of potential simply wasted.

*****

The Joker in the Eeeeeeeeeevil Cabal deck of cards.

"Voyager to alien fleet- Hold your fire! Hold your fire!! I promise
that WASN'T a kamikaze attack; that's the way Chakotay ALWAYS lands his
shuttles!!"
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162188 ] So, 06 November 2005 18:31
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article 1131296934.086783.254510 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com,
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/6/05 10:08
AM:

> ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
>>>
>>> METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
>>> disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
>>> for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
>>> some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
>>> Grade: B+
>>
>> Commissioner Hedford was dead at that point. She didn't really have a lot
>> of choice.
>
> Then her death would have been all the Companion's fault, because it
> wouldn't let the shuttlecraft and the crew reach the Starbase in time.
>
> Shnaggletooth
>
Yes. So?

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #162196 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 08:59
Karl Johanson  
"Graeme" <graemecree [at] aol.com> wrote in message
news:1131257770.733755.294120 [at] g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> "ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net> wrote in message
> news:BF8E11DD.5A7F3%ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net...
>> in article 1130908962.364122.316120 [at] g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
>> shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/1/05
>> 10:22
>> PM:
>>
>> > AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had
>> > a
>> > Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
>> > ending even more surprising.
>> > Grade: B+
>>
>> Oh, a solid A for me, and a great start for the season.
>
> Yeah, I'd give it an A also. It does seem like a serious flaw though,
> that Starfleet doesn't know that Vulcans might sometimes have to go
> home pronto, no questions asked. Maybe they were still thinking at
> this point that Spock was the only Vulcan in Starfleet. That sure
> wasn't the case in Immunity Syndrome, though.

And you'd think Spock would have gone through Pon Farr at least once
before, if he was on the Enterprise in Pike's time. His line, "I'd hoped
I'd be spared this, doesn't add up, unless puberty is pretty late for
him.

Karl Johanson
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163572 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 17:03
JHNichols  
>
> And you'd think Spock would have gone through Pon Farr at least once
> before, if he was on the Enterprise in Pike's time. His line, "I'd hoped
> I'd be spared this, doesn't add up, unless puberty is pretty late for him.
>
> Karl Johanson
>

Vulcans have longer lifespans then humans. Wasn't Spock's age in ST:TOS
75 - 80 years old?
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163574 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 18:26
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article IVKbf.74484$Bf7.46991 [at] tornado.texas.rr.com, JHNichols at
qwerty [at] somewhere.com wrote on 11/7/05 9:03 AM:

>
>>
>> And you'd think Spock would have gone through Pon Farr at least once
>> before, if he was on the Enterprise in Pike's time. His line, "I'd hoped
>> I'd be spared this, doesn't add up, unless puberty is pretty late for him.
>>
>> Karl Johanson
>>
>
> Vulcans have longer lifespans then humans. Wasn't Spock's age in ST:TOS
> 75 - 80 years old?
>
>
Never specified, but almost certainly not. His father was 102.437, and his
mother wasn't THAT old.

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163575 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 18:28
shnaggletooth  
Bozo the Evil Klown wrote:
>
> > THE CHANGELING: At least Nomad doesn't self-destruct in a bunch of
> > smoke and flying sprockets. But this episode comes close to that kind
> > of cliche.
> > Grade: B-
> >
>
>
> But the pacing here was infinitely better than the remake, "Star Trek:
> The Motionless Picture."

Or "Star Trek: The Slow-Motion Picture".
>
> > ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
> > Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
> > when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
> > mystery even in your time". Grade: A-
> >
>
>
> I've always wondered what that series could have turned into... but
> then, "Voyager" had potentially one of the most gripping concepts in
> the franchise. Sometimes it's better to see a show with low potential
> meet its goals than to see iso-tons of potential simply wasted.
>

I'm not sure, but I think that in 1969, the networks considered
Roddenberry to be a bad investment because Star Trek had not done all
that great in the ratings. (Which, of course, was the fault mostly of
NBC).

Shnaggletooth
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163576 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 18:32
shnaggletooth  
ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> in article 1131296934.086783.254510 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com,
> shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/6/05 10:08
> AM:
>
> > ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> >>>
> >>> METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
> >>> disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
> >>> for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
> >>> some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
> >>> Grade: B+
> >>
> >> Commissioner Hedford was dead at that point. She didn't really have a lot
> >> of choice.
> >
> > Then her death would have been all the Companion's fault, because it
> > wouldn't let the shuttlecraft and the crew reach the Starbase in time.
> >
> > Shnaggletooth
> >
> Yes. So?

I mentioned that because Kirk, Spock, and McCoy seemed almost OK with
it, like "La-di-da...is that all settled? Now let's get on the
shuttlecraft. Another day, another adventure." They should have been
more outraged.

Shnaggletooth
>
> --
>
> You Can't Stop the Signal
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163577 ] Mo, 07 November 2005 21:22
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article 1131384779.373308.145740 [at] g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/7/05 10:32
AM:

>
> ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
>> in article 1131296934.086783.254510 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com,
>> shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com at shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote on 11/6/05 10:08
>> AM:
>>
>>> ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
>>>>> disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
>>>>> for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
>>>>> some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
>>>>> Grade: B+
>>>>
>>>> Commissioner Hedford was dead at that point. She didn't really have a lot
>>>> of choice.
>>>
>>> Then her death would have been all the Companion's fault, because it
>>> wouldn't let the shuttlecraft and the crew reach the Starbase in time.
>>>
>>> Shnaggletooth
>>>
>> Yes. So?
>
> I mentioned that because Kirk, Spock, and McCoy seemed almost OK with
> it, like "La-di-da...is that all settled? Now let's get on the
> shuttlecraft. Another day, another adventure." They should have been
> more outraged.
>
> Shnaggletooth

ah. Yes, good point. I think that's why they made Hedford so nasty.
"Yeah, she's better off dead and a walking corpse reanimated by a scarf"

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
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Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163581 ] Di, 08 November 2005 04:09
Led4Aces  
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote
<<AMOK TIME: Good, of course. If I was the director, I would have had a

Vulcan, not Bones, confirm that Kirk was dead - would have made the
ending even more surprising.
Grade: B+ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Grade A ........ lots of Vulcan lore etablished. Loved the casting
choices for the Vulcans. Great music.


<<WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?: I liked the giant green hand. But kind of a
blah episode. Apparently, the plot originally had Lt.Palamas (another
Starfleet Academy admissions office mistake) get pregnant by Apollo.
They should have stuck with that.
Grade: B- >>>>>>>>>>

Silly but fun. B-


<<THE CHANGELING: At least Nomad doesn't self-destruct in a bunch of
smoke and flying sprockets. But this episode comes close to that kind
of cliche.
Grade: B- >>>>

Works as a 50 minute episode, not a 2 Hour feature film. B


<<MIRROR MIRROR: Among the very best. Wise decision to show just a tiny
bit of the evil Kirk; a bad director would have had done 50/50 good
Kirk/evil Kirk, and ruin it by going overboard. Nimoy's best
performance in TOS.
Grade: A >>>>>

Grade A as well. Good point about not showing the evil Kirk, Shatner
might have chewed everything in sight. Great speech at the end from
good Kirk urging Spock lead to lead a revolution.


<<THE APPLE: Kirk says "Is this paradise?" about 10 times. One of their

men gets killed, but Kirk and Spock joke as if nothing happened. We
never get an answer as to who installed Vaal, where it comes from. Only

the unintentional humor of five red shirts getting killed in all kinds
of Mr.Bill ways saves this from a worse grade.
Grade: C >>>>>>>>

C- ..... just plain cheesey. Trying to play up the Chekov romance is
vomit inducing. The planet inhabitants looked like they dropped in from
some hippy dippy commune.


<<THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: One of the very best. Grade: A

Yep. Grade A. Love the scene wear Spock confronts Decker on the bridge.


<<CATSPAW: This was the Halloween episode for TOS, aired on Oct.27,
1967. Sylvia is NOT one of the more attactive TOS women villians (or,
at
least she wasn't attractive the way they made her hair, etc.). Cliched
bad guy-turns good-lets heroes out of the dungeon story. I did like the

miniature Enterprise in the ice-cube. Grade: C+>>>>>>>>

Pretty forgettable. Even Kirk comments at the end how everything was an
illusion. And how dumb was it that Kirk breaks their magic wand and it
all goes poof. Maybe the aliens would have made every effort to keep it
out of Kirk's hands. C-


<<<<<I, Mudd: (I have yet to watch this.) >>>>>>>

Wow, how have u managed to avoid an episode of TOS? Pretty average
stuff. Mudd's character was at least a little 'dangerous' in "Mudd's
Women", here, he is just dumbed down and made into a total buffoon.
Grade C


<<<METAMORPHOSIS: A fine episode, to be sure. But the ending profoundly
disturbed me: Kirk and Co. are just going to take The Companion's word
for it that Ms.Hedford "agrees" to be 'one' with itself? Can we get
some confirmation from Ms.Hedford herself, just to be sure, Companion?
Grade: B+ >>>>>>>>

Something of a curveball. Not sure why I dont dislike it. B-


<<<<<JOURNEY TO BABEL: One of the very best. McCoy directly addresses
the viewing audience at the very end! Grade: A
>>>

A- ........ I like all the different races of people we see. Wonder if
Lucas got some ideas for his cantina scene in the original Star Wars?

<<<FRIDAY'S CHILD: Overlooked, underrated episode. Only the clunky
handling of the phony distress call holds this one back (would Sulu and

Uhuru really not quickly get it that the whole thing was a Klingon
trick?) Kirk and Spock kill with bows and arrows. McCoy bitch-slaps
Eleen (literally). Kirk says "Why not?" when Spock asks "Revenge,
Captain?"
Grade: B+ >>>>>>>>>>

More Fed- Klingon politics.... a decent yarn. B


<<<THE DEADLY YEARS: Decent idea, not well done. Grade: C >>>>

Chekov shrieks like a girl, perhaps louder and longer than he has in
previous episodes. That's not good. But I like seeing them all age and
overact just a tad. McCoy and Scotty started looking like walking
corpses. B-


<<OBSESSION: Why is there such a big deal between Kirk and Spock and
McCoy over whether or not the creature is "intelligent" or not? It has
to be stopped, anyway, right? And McCoy was right - Kirk's bad handling

of the situation did cost the life of at least one red shirt. Grade: B-
>>>>

B sounds about right.


<<<WOLF IN THE FOLD: Grade: B >>>>\

Nice to see the crew on shore leave doing a little carousing. Gotta
like their choice of entertainment. Interesting premise, although their
drugging of the entire crew was a bit much. B-


<<<THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES: Those Klingons are beginning to look more
and more like humans. Grade: A- >>>>>>>>>>

One of the few comedy epsiodes I enjoy. A great Lt Leslie episode by
the way. http://hometown.aol.com/ledz4aces/LeslieTribble.html


<<<THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION: Some neat aliens, an unusual landing
party of Kirk, Uhuru, and Chekov, and the bald guy's eyes can't save
this episode. Grade: C- >>>>>>>>>

Lost in Space-ish. Lame dialogue between Shana and Kirk, although
Chekov gets his 'girl'. C-


<<A PIECE OF THE ACTION: Excellent. Grade: A- >>>>>

Kinda dumb if you really think too much about it. Best not to think. C+


<<<THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME: This episode does at times seem to move
slowly. But I think it's underrated. And no episode with a shuttlecraft
can be altogether bad. Grade: B+ >>>>>>\

A giant amoeba? Sure why not? B


<<<<A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR: Sort of like "Friday's Child", as Klingons
interfere with a somewhat primitive planet. Like that episode, this one

is gritty: blood-healing, the beginning of a gang-rape, etc. Good idea
not to have a happy ending. Grade: B+ >>>>>>>>>

Ditto to what u said. B+


<<<RETURN TO TOMORROW: Similar to "Metamorphosis" in theme, even
sharing the same swirling, romantic music. Like that episode, Kirk acts
in a
very disturbing, atypical way: given the limitless possibilities of
something going wrong, he agrees to the body exchange?! If something
should happen to you and your first officer, Captain, what happens to
your crew and the Enterprise?! For once, McCoy is correct in his
judgement of the situation. Nimoy plays the villian perfectly. Grade:
B+ >>>

Spock plays a good villain in this one. Too bad Sargon didnt visit the
planet where Dr Corby made his discovery about making really advanced,
life-like androids, because the ones they were constructing paled in
comparison. B+


<<<PATTERNS OF FORCE: Everything is going OK with this episode - until
the moment Spock is inexplicably ordered to remove his helmet. After
that,
everything just turns into a total cliche. Grade: C-

Seemed like a poor excuse to do a costume episode. Grade C


<<<BY ANY OTHER NAME: Everyone makes up and becomes friends at the end.
Uh, Kirk, have you forgotten what they did to the Yeoman? Who speaks
for her? I did like the idea of turning people into salt shapes,
though. Grade: C+ >>>>>>>>>>>>

I like this one. Kelinda is hot. Space is cold. Good combination. B


<<THE OMEGA GLORY: Again, an episode that begins extremely well, but
gets destroyed later on. Unlike "Patterns of Force", though, this one
goes
downhill only until around the climax. So we see excellent things like
a Starship's crew turned into small particles, a well-done fight
between Kirk and the Yang, McCoy reaching for the wine-glass after
being stopped by a sword. But the whole American flag/Constitution
thing is ridiculous. Good fight between Kirk and Tracey with the knife.

Spock's mind-suggestion trick. Grade: B >>>>>>>>>>

There is some good stuff in the episode. The ending doesn't completely
ruin what came before, it just could have been better. C


<<<<THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER: The only TOS episode where Kirk's beating
the computer seems to make sense (in my opinion). Grade: A- >>>

Nicely prophetic about how computers might take someone's job in the
not too distant future. B+


<<<BREAD AND CIRCUSES: Grade: B- >>>>

Much prefer this Roman episode to the Nazi one. Much better story
overall, although the Earth clone thing is growing tired. B


<<<<ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
mystery even in your time". Grade: A- >>>>>>>>>

C+ ...... Just a year after accidently going back in time in "Tomorrow
is Yesterday", the Feds seem rather cavileer about the risk involved in
time travel. Sure they could accidently change the future.... but hey,
they get to observe a rocket launch. Huh? Pick up a history book next
time.
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163582 ] Di, 08 November 2005 05:17
ANIM8Rfsk  
in article 1131419345.445859.311010 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, Led4Aces
at Led4acs [at] aol.com wrote on 11/7/05 8:09 PM:

> <<<<ASSIGNMENT EARTH: A shame the Gary Seven series never was. Robert
> Lansing does a great job. Example: Matching Kirk's force of personality
> when refusing to provide information on his planet that "will remain a
> mystery even in your time". Grade: A- >>>>>>>>>
>
> C+ ...... Just a year after accidently going back in time in "Tomorrow
> is Yesterday", the Feds seem rather cavileer about the risk involved in
> time travel. Sure they could accidently change the future.... but hey,
> they get to observe a rocket launch. Huh? Pick up a history book next
> time.

History books got scrambled in the fight between Gary Seven and Khan. :-)

--

You Can't Stop the Signal
SERENITY on DVD December 20th
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BW7QWW
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163592 ] Di, 08 November 2005 23:01
shnaggletooth  
Led4Aces wrote:

>
> <<<THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES: Those Klingons are beginning to look more
> and more like humans. Grade: A- >>>>>>>>>>
>
> One of the few comedy epsiodes I enjoy. A great Lt Leslie episode by
> the way. http://hometown.aol.com/ledz4aces/LeslieTribble.html
>

I just checked out that Lt.Leslie site - hilarious. Now someone needs
to make one for Lt.Johnson, and also for the anonymous silent guy who
usually subs for either Sulu or Chekov.

Shnaggletooth
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163595 ] Mi, 09 November 2005 02:45
janosprohaska  
In article <1131384496.872119.244590 [at] g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
shnaggletooth [at] yahoo.com wrote:

> Bozo the Evil Klown wrote:
> >
(snip)
> > But the pacing here was infinitely better than the remake, "Star Trek:
> > The Motionless Picture."
>
> Or "Star Trek: The Slow-Motion Picture".

Or I refer to it, "Where Nomad Has Gone Before!"

hth,
BH
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163599 ] Mi, 09 November 2005 05:40
wdstarr  
In article <1131419345.445859.311010 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"Led4Aces" <Led4acs [at] aol.com> said:

[ re "Assignment Earth" ]

> C+ ...... Just a year after accidently going back in time in
> "Tomorrow is Yesterday", the Feds seem rather cavileer about the
> risk involved in time travel. Sure they could accidently change
> the future.... but hey, they get to observe a rocket launch. Huh?
> Pick up a history book next time.

Arguably it was the Federation's analysis of this incident --
roughly, "Yes, maybe Kirk and all were predestined to have been part
of it all along, history is immutable with regard to the kind of
time travel we can do, etc., but then again, maybe we all just got
supremely lucky[1]" -- that scared them out of trying it again.

1: "Or maybe, just maybe" [whispering] "history _did_ get changed
and we only *think* this is the way it was all along..."

--
William December Starr <wdstarr [at] panix.com>
Re: Occasionally terse letter grades for TOS, season Two [message #163605 ] Do, 10 November 2005 16:02
JHNichols  
"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net> wrote in message
news:BF94DC47.5B674%ANIM8Rfsk [at] cox.net...

> Never specified, but almost certainly not. His father was 102.437, and
> his
> mother wasn't THAT old.
>
> --
Good, good, good point! I am usually not that dense. I totally forgot
about is mother........437.... that's funny.
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