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Science Fiction » alt.startrek » TOS Recap: The Corbomite Maneuver, part 2 of 4
| TOS Recap: The Corbomite Maneuver, part 2 of 4 [message #217037] |
Mi, 08 Februar 2006 04:11 |
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ACT TWO
The Enterprise motionless in space. Kirk voiceovers, "Captain's log,
stardate fifteen fourteen point zero. The cube has been destroyed.
Ship's damage: minor."
Kirk pacing on the bridge. "But my next decision: major. Probe on
ahead, or turn back?" The extra at the Engineering Station is still
there, but some guy in a blue tunic has replaced Uhura at
Communications.
Kirk comes up next to Spock, who is peering into his scanner, as he
reports: "Nothing, Captain. No contacts, no objects in any direction."
Easing himself down onto the railing behind Spock, Kirk says, "Care to
speculate on what we'll find if we go on ahead?"
Spock raises his head a bit. "Speculate? No." Taking his seat and
facing Kirk, he continues, "Logically, we'll discover the intelligence
which sent out the cube." Now that he's facing the other direction, we
can see that Spock is wearing an earpiece in his right ear.
"Intelligence different from ours, or superior?" Kirk wonders as he
rubs his eyes. Yeah, he's one tired starship captain.
"Probably both," says Spock. "And if you're asking the logical
decision to make --"
"No, I'm not," Kirk assures him. "The mission of the Enterprise is to
seek out and contact alien life."
Spock ponders this for a moment and remarks, "Has it occured to you
that there's a certain . . . inefficiency . . . in constantly
questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?"
Smiling, Kirk answers, "It gives me emotional security." Spock doesn't
smile, but you know he wants to. Yeah, this is the stuff, baby. This
is vintage Kirk/Spock relationship material. This is the stuff that
earned this show a diehard fanbase that kept it alive and made it into
a billion dollar franchise, and forty years later it still works like a
charm.
Kirk turns to face Bailey and says, "Navigator, set a course ahead."
Bailey, Sulu and an extra in a gold tunic are doing some repair work on
the Command Module. Bailey, standing in front of the console, reaches
over and taps some buttons, saying, "Plotted, laid in, sir," then
stands at attention.
Kirk tells them to engage as he starts heading for the turbolift. An
offscreen Sulu says, "Warp one, sir," as the turbolift doors open to
reveal McCoy.
Turning around, Kirk adds, "Mr. Bailey, phaser crews were sluggish, and
you were slow in locking them into your directional beam. Helmsman,
engineering decks could have been faster, too. Program a series of
simulated attacks and evasion maneuvers. Keep repeating the exercise
until we're proficient, gentlemen."
"Yes, sir," says Sulu.
"Yes, sir," says Bailey.
As Kirk turns back to the turbolift, McCoy quietly remarks, "Your
timing is lousy, Jim." They both enter.
"The men are tired," McCoy continues as Kirk tells the elevator to take
him to the captain's quarters.
Kirk asks, "Aren't you the one that always says a little suffering is
good for the soul?"
"I never say that," McCoy deadpans.
In the background, we can hear Bailey announcing, "This is the bridge.
Prepare for simulated attack."
"I'm especially worried about Bailey," McCoy continues. "Navigator's
position is rough enough on a seasoned man."
"I think he'll cut it," Kirk insists while rubbing at his eyes. Yeah,
the men aren't the only ones who are tired.
"Oh? How so sure? Because you spotted something you liked in him?
Something familiar, like yourself, say about, oh, eleven years ago?"
"Why, doctor," says Kirk lightly, "you've been reading your textbooks
again?"
"I don't need textbooks to know that you could have promoted him too
fast. Listen to that voice." They pause for a moment to listen to
Bailey calling a simulated condition alert. The turbolift door opens
and they exit.
#
The Enterprise forging ahead into unknown territory, while the title
theme plays.
Kirk's quarters, where McCoy is pouring a couple glasses of something
amber colored and probably alcoholic. Bailey's filtered voice is in
the background scolding the engineering crew. McCoy hands one of the
glasses to Kirk, who is slumped down in a seat. Kirk takes a drink
while McCoy sits down across from him. "What's next? 'They're not
machines, Jim'?"
"Well, they're not," McCoy insists. "After what they've been through,
they really should --"
"Doctor McCoy," Kirk interrupts, "I've heard you say that man is
ultimately superior to any mechanical device."
"No, I don't say that, either," McCoy deadpans as he takes a drink.
"I could have sworn I heard you say that." Anything else Kirk might
have said is interrupted by a comm whistle. He reaches over to punch a
control on his desktop monitor. "Kirk here."
We hear Spock say, "Exercise rating, Captain. Ninety-four percent."
"Let's try for one hundred, Mr. Spock," Kirk responds.
"Agreed," says Spock.
As Kirk switches off, he looks over at McCoy, who says, "What are you
going to do with that six percent when they give it to you, Jim?"
"I'm going to take it, and I'm going to --" Kirk is interrupted again,
this time by the arrival of Yeoman Rand, carrying a covered dish.
"Excuse me, sir," says Rand efficiently, "it's past time you had
something to eat." She carries the tray over to the table, sets a
small tablecloth in front of Kirk, switches off his desktop monitor,
and sets in front of him a plate holding:
"What the devil is this? Green leaves?"
"It's dietary salad, sir," Rand tells him. "Dr. McCoy ordered your
diet card changed. I thought you knew."
Kirk glares at McCoy, who says half-apologetically, "Your, uh, weight
was up a couple of pounds, remember?"
As Rand flicks open a dining cloth and sets it in place on Kirk's lap,
he gripes, "Will you stop hovering over me, Yeoman?" She tries to
remove his drink, but he intercepts it and returns it to the table.
"Well, I'll change it if you don't like it, sir," she says with a hint
of exasperation.
Still glaring at McCoy, Kirk adds, "Bring some for the doctor, too."
"No, no! No, I never eat until the crew eats," McCoy insists. He
gives Kirk an innocent look, and Kirk turns to look at Rand.
"Thank you, Yeoman," Kirk tells her dismissively.
"You're welcome, sir," Rand says impassively before efficiently turning
and leaving.
As we hear Bailey starting yet another training exercise, Kirk mutters,
"When I get my hands on the headquarters genius that assigned me a
female yeoman --"
"What's the matter, Jim?" McCoy leers. "Don't you trust yourself?"
Kirk responds with another glare. It looks like Captain Pike was
right, all ships' doctors are dirty old men.
"I've already got a female to worry about," Kirk informs him. "Her
name's the Enterprise."
Bailey's training exercise is interrupted by Sulu, who says,
"Countermanded. All decks to battle stations. This is not a drill,
repeat, this is not a drill."
Kirk connects to the bridge. "Kirk here."
"We're picking up an object, sir," we hear Spock say. "Much larger,
coming toward us."
The background music comes up as Kirk says, "Coming," and leaves his
cabin. McCoy follows him.
#
Spock on the bridge. "Exceptionally strong contact." Peering into his
scanner, he adds, "Not visual yet."
Bailey punches some buttons, and we get another shot of the viewscreen,
currently showing stars moving past.
Back to Spock, with Kirk standing next to him and Uhura visible in the
background. "Distance spectrograph: metallic, similar to cube. Much
greater energy reading." So, almost certainly from the cube people.
"There, sir," says Sulu.
Shot of the viewscreen, as a bright spot appears in the center. We now
get our first sample of the Fesarius Theme, which introduces us to the
episode's second uncredited guest star: the starship Fesarius.
Kirk and Spock look up at the viewscreen as the turbolift opens behind
them, revealing two extras: a blonde woman in a gold minidress and a
dark-haired man in a gold tunic. As the extras enter the bridge, we
pan right to follow Kirk, who orders, "Half speed. Prepare for evasive
action." The male extra goes to the left, the female to the right.
"Reducing to warp two, sir," Sulu confirms, just before the bridge gets
shaken around for several seconds.
"Tractor beam, Captain," Spock informs Kirk as he hurries over to the
Engineering Console. "Something's grabbed us, hard."
"Engines overloading, sir," Sulu announces.
"All engines, stop," Kirk orders.
"All engines stop, sir," Sulu confirms.
A shot of the viewscreen, which shows us a white sphere with a pulsing
glow.
"Phaser crews stand ready," Kirk orders.
"Bridge to phaser crew," Bailey says, "stand ready."
Another shot of the viewscreen, where the pulsing sphere is bigger.
"Forward phaser," we hear over the intercom, "will comply. All weapons
at operations ready." Later on, in "Balance of Terror", we will learn
that the guy manning the forward phasers is named Robert Tomlinson, and
that he's proposed to another member of the forward phaser crew named
Angela Martine. The sphere is slowly growing larger.
Reaction shots of Kirk, Sulu and Bailey, as the Fesarius Theme comes to
a climax, and we cut to a shot of the Enterprise hanging in space, as
the glowing sphere rushes up before halting a nervously short distance
away, and boy is that one huge mofo of a ship! The Enterprise is tiny
by comparison. We can see that the pulsing glow comes from hundreds of
little spheres spread across the surface of the big sphere, blinking on
and off in some pattern that probably means something to its builders.
It looks like each one of the little spheres is the size of the
Enterprise.
A reaction shot of Kirk, then one from Spock, who says "Fascinating"
for the first time.
The viewscreen shows a small section of the sphere's surface. The
little spheres have even littler spheres, half their size, at their
junctures. They continue to blink on and off.
"What's its mass, Mr. Spock?" Kirk inquires.
"The reading goes off my scale, Captain," Spock answers. "It must be a
mile in diameter." The Enterprise, by comparison, is 947 feet, or 0.18
miles long. So, picture the big sphere as a meter in diameter, and the
Enterprise is 18 centimeters long. By the way, on this scale, the cube
would be 6.65 centimeters on a side (ironically, a little bigger than a
Rubik's cube), making it a little more than a third the Enterprise's
length.
"Over five thousand meters away and it still fills the screen," Bailey
mumbles.
"Reduce image," Kirk orders. "Let me see all of it."
Bailey, transfixed, does not respond. Sulu glances over at him, then
leans over and punches a control on Bailey's side of the Command
Console. "Magnification two five, sir," says Sulu.
In the viewscreen, the big sphere is almost completely visible, but the
top and bottom are still cut off. A jump in the view and the sphere is
completely visible as Sulu says, "Magnification one eight point five,
sir."
Dramatic music as we get reaction shots from Kirk, Spock, Sulu and
Bailey, the latter still transfixed.
Back to the viewscreen, as the Fesarius Theme comes to a climax.
Kirk glances back at Uhura and says, "Ship to ship."
"Hailing frequencies open, sir," Uhura responds for the second time.
"This is the United Earth ship Enterprise," Kirk states. "We convey
greetings and await your reply."
After sixteen seconds of silence, during which we get reaction shots
from the principals, Bailey gets an odd look on his face. "What is it,
Mr. Bailey?" Kirk asks.
"A message coming over my navigation beam."
"Pick it up," Kirk orders Uhura.
"Switching, sir," Uhura responds.
We hear a big, deep voice saying " . . . AND TRESPASSED INTO OUR STAR
SYSTEMS. THIS IS BALOK, COMMANDER OF THE FLAGSHIP FESARIUS OF THE
FIRST FEDERATION. YOUR VESSEL, OBVIOUSLY THE PRODUCT OF A PRIMITIVE
AND SAVAGE CIVILIZATION, HAVING IGNORED A WARNING BUOY AND THEN HAVING
DESTROYED IT, HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT YOUR INTENTION IS NOT PEACEFUL. WE
ARE NOW CONSIDERING THE DISPOSITION OF YOUR SHIP AND THE LIFE ABOARD."
Clearly, these First Federation types are not very friendly. The
warning bouy blocked their way and then started spitting lethal
radiation at them when they tried to back away, and now this guy is
being an arrogant asshole. (Balok is being voiced here by Ted Cassidy,
who played the zombie butler Lurch in the original "Addams Family"
series, and guest-starred as the scary-looking alien android Ruk in the
later TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
During Balok's rant, we get reaction shots of Kirk, Bailey, Sulu,
Spock, and back to Kirk. Kirk doesn't like what he's hearing, and he
tells Uhura "Ship to ship" again.
"Hailing frequencies open, sir," Uhura responds for the third time.
"This is the Captain of the Enterprise speaking. The warning nature of
your space buoy was unknown to us." Yeah, these guys really ought to
get their buoys to broadcast some kind of actual message, like "You
have reach the borders of the First Federation. If you approach this
warning bouy, it'll start spewing hard raditation at you until you fry
like an egg. Go away."
Kirk continues, "Our vessel was blocked, and when we attempted to
disengage --" He is interrupted as a crackling sound erupts and the
ship's lights flicker. Bailey jerks his earpiece off, a pained
expression on his face.
Spock glances at the Engineering console and says, "Captain, we're
being invaded by exceptionally strong sensor probes everywhere: our
electrical systems, our engines --"
Balok butts in. "NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED," he states
as the crackling and flickering end. "IF THERE IS THE SLIGHTEST
HOSTILE MOVE, YOUR VESSEL WILL BE DESTROYED IMMEDIATELY."
Bailey and Sulu look back at Kirk for instructions. Kirk gets up and
walks over to Spock's station, where Spock joins him. "They're
shutting off some of our systems, Captain," he reports as he takes his
seat. "Brilliant. Extremely sophisticated in their methods."
"Does our recorder marker have all this on its tapes?" Kirk inquires.
"Enough to warn other Earth ships."
"Mr. Bailey," Kirk orders, "dispatch recorder marker." Bailey,
unfortunately, is still in a daze. Sulu looks over at him.
Bailey finally starts moving again as Kirk approaches him and says,
"Mr. Bailey?"
"Uh, recorder marker dispatched, sir," Bailey manages as he sluggishly
operates his console. We hear a high keening sound as the recorder
marker sets off.
"Marker on course," Spock reports, "heading back the way we --"
There's a loud electronic buzzing sound as the bridge shakes.
"YOUR RECORDER MARKER HAS BEEN DESTROYED," Balok informs them. Because
heaven knows we wouldn't want it to become generally known that the
First Federation doesn't welcome visitors. Balok continues, "YOU HAVE
BEEN EXAMINTED. YOUR SHIP MUST BE DESTROYED. WE MAKE ASSUMPTION THAT
YOU HAVE A DEITY, OR DEITIES, OR SOME SUCH BELIEFS WHICH COMFORT YOU.
WE THEREFORE GRANT YOU TEN EARTH TIME PERIODS KNOWN AS MINUTES TO MAKE
PREPARATIONS." Not only an arrogant asshole, but long-winded and
condescending too. Incidentally, Balok's deadline occurs 22 minutes
and 18 seconds into the episode.
A musical sting. Spock begins operating controls at his console,
saying, "Might be interesting to see what they look like, if I can
locate where that voice is coming from."
McCoy and Scott emerge from the turbolift. McCoy joins Kirk and says,
"Balok's message, it was heard all over the ship."
Kirk nods to himself and resumes his seat in the Captain's chair. His
crew needs to hear from him. He presses a couple buttons on the arm of
his chair and addresses them. "Captain to crew."
A shot of a corridor as crewmen pause to listen to their Captain.
"Those of you who have served for long on this vessel have encountered
alien life forms." Like those rat-things on Dimorus that throw the
poisoned darts, and that telepathic race on Deneb IV that Gary Mitchell
got lucky with, and that other telepathic race on Talos IV that
kidnapped Captain Pike and the two women, and those iron age savages on
Rigel VII that killed three members of the crew. "You know the
greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the
unknown. But there is no such thing as the unknown. Only things
temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. In most cases, we have
found that intelligence capable of a civilization is capable of
understanding peaceful gestures. Surely a life form advanced enough
for space travel is advanced enough to eventually understand our
motives. All decks stand by. Captain out." In her Star Trek:
Enterprise recaps on Television Without Pity, Keckler spends a lot of
time bemoaning Jonathan Archer's tendency to speechify. Now we know
where he gets it (or, looked at another way, we know where Kirk gets
it).
During Kirk's speech, we get reaction shots from Spock plus Uhura plus
guy from turbolift, Bailey, Kirk, Sulu, Scott, crewmen in corridor,
Kirk. "Ship to ship," he tells Uhura.
"Hailing frequencies open, sir," Uhura responds for the fourth time.
"This is the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. We came seeking
friendship, but we have no wish to trespass. To demonstrate our
goodwill, our vessel will now return the way it came. We --" Kirk
pauses as a sort of moaning sound starts to build up, growing slowly
higher in pitch. Uhura has to remove her earpiece. Kirk gestures to
her, and she ends the transmission, though the sound continues. "Lay
in a course ahead, Mr. Bailey."
"What?" says a zoned-out Bailey.
Sulu reaches over and punches some more buttons on the navigation
console. "Course plotted and laid in, sir," he says.
Bailey dazedly reaches out tentatively to his controls as Kirk says,
"Engage, warp factor one."
"Warp factor . . . there's no response," Sulu responds.
Approaching the Command Module, Kirk orders, "Switch to impulse."
Sulu works his controls. "All engine systems show dead." More button
pressing. "And weapons systems."
"Switching to screen," Spock announces. "I believe I can get something
visual."
As the sound fades out, we see the Fesarius slowly dissolve into a head
shot of an alien. Through waves of distortion, we can see that he has
a big round bald head, yellow catlike eyes, and a narrow frowning
mouth. A soft, slow version of the Fesarius Theme is playing. The
mouth moves, and we hear Balok say, "YOU ARE WASTING TIME AND EFFORT.
THERE IS NO ESCAPE. YOU HAVE EIGHT EARTH MINUTES LEFT." This is 24
minutes and 55 seconds into the episode, so they've actually got 7
Earth minutes and 37 Earth seconds left. And based on what McCoy said
earlier, everyone on the ship can presumably hear this, too. An
unhappy Kirk seats himself in the Big Chair.
"I was curious to see how they appeared," Spock says.
"Yes, of course you were," Kirk answers absently, his hand rubbing his
jaw.
Bailey's numbness is wearing off. He can feel again, and what he feels
is panic. "I don't understand this," he says in a whiny sort of voice.
"Spock's wasting time, everybody else is just sitting around.
Somebody's got to do something!"
McCoy has no trouble recognizing Bailey's symptoms. He puts a calming
hand on Bailey's shoulder, saying, "Easy, Bailey," but Bailey has no
intention of being easy.
"What do they want from us?" he implores McCoy. "Let's find out what
they want us to do!"
"They want us to lose our heads, Bailey," Kirk says sternly.
Bailey has decided to give their captors what they want. "We've only
got eight minutes left!" he cries out.
"Seven minutes and forty-one seconds," Sulu corrects him at the 25:29
mark.
"He's doing a countdown!" Bailey shouts.
McCoy is still trying to calm Bailey down. "Practically end of watch
--" he begins as he takes Bailey by the arm.
Bailey frees himself from McCoy's grasp and backs away from him.
"What, are you all out of your minds? End of watch? It's the end of
everything! What are you, robots? Wound-up toy soldiers? Don't you
know when you're dying? Watch and regulations and orders, what do they
mean?"
Kirk has had enough. "Bailey, you're relieved! Escort him to his
quarters, doctor."
Bailey stands still for a moment, hyperventilating, until McCoy tells
him "Let's go." Then he stalks out of the bridge. McCoy, following
him, spares Kirk a scowling "I told you so" look.
Kirk lets the tension drain from his body before he tells Uhura, "Ship
to ship."
"Hailing frequencies open, sir," Uhura responds for the fifth time.
(I'm now cutting and pasting the phrase "Hailing frequencies open,
sir.")
"This is the captain of the Enterprise speaking. It is the custom of
Earth people to try and avoid misunderstanding whenever possible. We
destroyed your space buoy as a simple act of self-preservation. When
we attempted to move away from it, it emitted radiation harmful to our
species. If you've examined our ship and its tapes, you know this to
be true."
The moaning sound starts up again, and Uhura has to remove her
earpiece. One thing you can say about Balok, he sure in consistent.
"YOU NOW HAVE SEVEN MINUTES LEFT," Balok says at the 26:54 mark, just
about two minutes after his eight minute warning.
Musical sting, and as the moaning sound continues to rise in pitch, we
fade to black.
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| Re: TOS Recap: The Corbomite Maneuver, part 2 of 4 [message #217065 ] |
Fr, 10 Februar 2006 00:06 |
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Empok Nor wrote:
> ACT TWO
<snip>
> "No, I'm not," Kirk assures him. "The mission of the Enterprise is to
> seek out and contact alien life."
>
> Spock ponders this for a moment and remarks, "Has it occured to you
> that there's a certain . . . inefficiency . . . in constantly
> questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?"
>
> Smiling, Kirk answers, "It gives me emotional security." Spock
> doesn't smile, but you know he wants to. Yeah, this is the stuff,
> baby. This is vintage Kirk/Spock relationship material. This is the
> stuff that earned this show a diehard fanbase that kept it alive and
> made it into a billion dollar franchise, and forty years later it
> still works like a charm.
You just can't beat a classic.
<snip>
> Turning around, Kirk adds, "Mr. Bailey, phaser crews were sluggish,
> and you were slow in locking them into your directional beam.
Directional beam...
To 'paint' a target?
<snip>
> "What's the matter, Jim?" McCoy leers. "Don't you trust yourself?"
> Kirk responds with another glare. It looks like Captain Pike was
> right, all ships' doctors are dirty old men.
Not Beverly Crusher or Kathryn Pulaski I hope... :)
But I understand Kirk. He feels a bit self conscious maybe.
With her around he might not feel completely free to say things or say those
things in a manner he would in the company of just an old friend like Bones.
Because it wouldn't be proper or something like that in front of a woman.
Specially one he didn't know all that well and was a subordinate.
Besides that, she did the hovering and fussing thing....
It was cramping his style.
<snip>
> Reaction shots of Kirk, Sulu and Bailey, as the Fesarius Theme comes
> to a climax, and we cut to a shot of the Enterprise hanging in space,
> as the glowing sphere rushes up before halting a nervously short
> distance away, and boy is that one huge mofo of a ship! The
> Enterprise is tiny by comparison. We can see that the pulsing glow
> comes from hundreds of little spheres spread across the surface of
> the big sphere, blinking on and off in some pattern that probably
> means something to its builders. It looks like each one of the little
> spheres is the size of the Enterprise.
Across the surface...
I always got the impression the entire ship was made up out of those things.
>
> A reaction shot of Kirk, then one from Spock, who says "Fascinating"
> for the first time.
>
> The viewscreen shows a small section of the sphere's surface. The
> little spheres have even littler spheres, half their size, at their
> junctures. They continue to blink on and off.
>
> "What's its mass, Mr. Spock?" Kirk inquires.
>
> "The reading goes off my scale, Captain," Spock answers. "It must be
> a mile in diameter." The Enterprise, by comparison, is 947 feet, or
> 0.18 miles long. So, picture the big sphere as a meter in diameter,
> and the Enterprise is 18 centimeters long. By the way, on this
> scale, the cube would be 6.65 centimeters on a side (ironically, a
> little bigger than a Rubik's cube), making it a little more than a
> third the Enterprise's length.
>
Cool.
<snip>
> "This is the United Earth ship Enterprise," Kirk states. "We convey
> greetings and await your reply."
>
Of course, at this moment the UFP hadn't been thought up by the writers.
The Enterprise seemed 'just' an Earth vessel.
> After sixteen seconds of silence, during which we get reaction shots
> from the principals, Bailey gets an odd look on his face. "What is
> it, Mr. Bailey?" Kirk asks.
>
> "A message coming over my navigation beam."
>
> "Pick it up," Kirk orders Uhura.
>
> "Switching, sir," Uhura responds.
>
> We hear a big, deep voice saying " . . . AND TRESPASSED INTO OUR STAR
> SYSTEMS. THIS IS BALOK, COMMANDER OF THE FLAGSHIP FESARIUS OF THE
> FIRST FEDERATION. YOUR VESSEL, OBVIOUSLY THE PRODUCT OF A PRIMITIVE
> AND SAVAGE CIVILIZATION, HAVING IGNORED A WARNING BUOY AND THEN HAVING
> DESTROYED IT, HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT YOUR INTENTION IS NOT PEACEFUL.
> WE ARE NOW CONSIDERING THE DISPOSITION OF YOUR SHIP AND THE LIFE
> ABOARD." Clearly, these First Federation types are not very friendly.
> The warning bouy blocked their way and then started spitting lethal
> radiation at them when they tried to back away, and now this guy is
> being an arrogant asshole. (Balok is being voiced here by Ted
> Cassidy, who played the zombie butler Lurch in the original "Addams
> Family" series, and guest-starred as the scary-looking alien android
> Ruk in the later TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
>
I wonder if in the beginning of the show this might have been the beginning
of the idea of the UFP....
One might speculate that the UFP of Star Trek originally was this First
Federation. And that Earth only recently joined after this first contact.
Of course later on in the series they introduced the concept of the UFP in a
manner that made clear it already had been around for a long time, and that
Earth was an extremely important member of it. And that the First Federation
was something completely different.
<snip>
> In her
> Star Trek: Enterprise recaps on Television Without Pity, Keckler
> spends a lot of time bemoaning Jonathan Archer's tendency to
> speechify. Now we know where he gets it (or, looked at another way,
> we know where Kirk gets it).
Kirk was never that annoying.. ;)
<snip>
--
Wouter Valentijn
www.wouter.cc
www.nksf.nl
www.zeppodunsel.nl
liam=mail
"The world that denies thee, thou inhabit.
The peace that ignores thee, thou corrupt.
Chaos. I remain, as ever, thy faithful, degenerate son."
Ethan Rayne, 'Halloween' (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
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