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Star Trek: TOS 1x20 Full Reaction (Patreon)

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2021-10-23 21:01:00
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2026-06
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Thomas Corp

This was a very fun and very enjoyable reaction to a particularly dramatic Star Trek episode. I also have a soft spot for courtroom dramas, and when they’re good, they’re really good. I very much enjoy Elisha Cook Jr., who was such a terrific character actor, as Cogley. His big speech is my favorite part of the episode. I also related a lot to his love of books and, like you described yourself, I’m of the similar mentality of you have a system that works, you stick with it. I also related to and had a good laugh over Spock’s response to Bones saying that he is "the most cold-blooded man I've ever met" with a cheerful "Why, thank you, Doctor." As to your thoughts and comments at the end, I feel it is a topic that bears discussion, and like you say, we can’t just pretend it doesn’t exist and just leave it at that. I would say that my opinions on Kirk’s being a ladies' man are more or less similar to those that you stated. I agree that it’s not a facet of Kirk’s character that I’m overly fond of and that I have more of an issue with its repetitiveness and the poor writing of the female characters when it’s done badly. Here I thought it was handled well enough, though I felt that the final scene was a little corny, and even then, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I once again wish you good luck with your move. Not the episode after this one, but the one after that is a big one that I am really looking forward to revisiting and seeing your reaction to it. However long it will be until you start reacting to Star Trek again, and there really is no rush on that, you take as much time as you need to move and get settled, I’m more than content to wait.

Sougent

I know what you mean about the way women are written for the most part in the original series, as progressive as it was for the times, those times were the 1960's and the writers probably grew up in the 30's and 40's so the prevailing attitudes about women showed in the writing. It's an unfortunate failing of the original series despite having a few fairly strong female characters show up from time to time. In that vein, there are a number of episodes that I'm quite looking forward to your reactions for, a couple in particular especially so.

Cruel Angel

Yes, the dreaded microphone. They could have eliminated that by doing what Spock had to do anyway... just tell the computer- how many separate heartbeats are you receiving? Then go through the list of personnel aboard and have the computer eliminate one by one, or simply ask the computer with the exception of the bridge and the transporter room, are there any other locations that are registering a heartbeat. One subtle thing I think Kirk should have kept in mind when hearing the other SF people's opinions against him... here he says 'our graduating class at the academy is well represented'. Considering Kirk made captain at or shortly before 34, his class was 12 years ago or even less. None of those people in the bar he talked to were above the rank of lieutenant, and here he is a captain (3 grades above, and in command of 1 of only 12 starships). They are standing still in comparison. I would care very little what they thought since they are nowhere near his level, especially having no command experience. As far as Jamie's 180, there was apparently a change to the script which left out an additional detail of her reading through Finney's old letters. He also put down his feelings about Kirk and what had happened to his career- so she realized with how much he obsessed over it, she began to believe it was possible that her dad would try to frame Kirk in revenge.