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Star Trek 1x22 Full Reaction

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Thomas Corp

This is an episode that I’ve been looking forward to revisiting and I’ve been anticipating your reaction to it. When it comes to ranking favorite Star Trek episodes, I have a method similar to how I rank my favorite episodes of my favorite show, M*A*S*H where I rank the episodes by character, for instance what are my favorite Spock episodes, what are my favorite Sulu episodes, and so on. This episode is my favorite villain-centric episode. When it comes to villains, Khan Noonien Singh is one of the best there is. Ricardo Montalbán is so superb as the character. Now, much as I love Khan, the scenes between him and Marla McGivers are very uncomfortable. In fact, when rewatching this to prepare for your reaction, I was saying that the scenes were much more uncomfortable than I remembered, and I remembered that they were very uncomfortable the first time I saw this episode. As you described, a very slow burn of an episode, with a lot of rising tension. The scenes of the crew were highlights for me as well. I love the scene where Bones is threatened by Khan, and he seems more offended by the indecisiveness of Khan’s threat. Like he says, “Well, either choke me or cut my throat. Make up your mind.” I like to think that Uhura was able to get some payback on the one henchman, we just don’t get to see it, sadly. In any case I always love the look she gives the henchman. That’s a look that would melt half the Enterprise. And of course, as Spock says, it would indeed be interesting, to return to that world in a hundred years and learn what crop had sprung from the seed that was planted that day. But perhaps, that is a story for another time. Absolutely loved your reaction to this episode!