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Star Trek: The Original Series 207-208 (Patreon)

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2024-11-15 14:00:12
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Keith Brown

CATSPAW- The studio told the Star Trek writers to come up with a story to fit in with Halloween that week it ran .

Monica Alarcon

Catspaw was the first episode filmed in Wich Chekov appeared so the wig was very noticeable. In later episodes it was his real hair, they were just waiting until it grew enough for a Monkees style...

Actuarial Lurker

Cats Paw was made with a low budget as basically a Halloween filler episode- it literally uses the same set as Trelane's castle from The Squire Of Gothos- the banquet hall of Trelane upstairs is the plant people's throne room/dining area, the dungeon downstairs is the room where Trelane held the mock trial of Kirk, same entrance way to the castle, same smokey exterior planet atmosphere etc etc... it gets used another time as well to avoid building expensive sets on the main lot

Keith Brown

I, MUDD -Star Trek always had a couple episodes a season that went for humor. More will come this season.

Actuarial Lurker

The writer of the episode cat's Paw was Robert Bloch who wrote the classic movie Psycho- he also wrote the S1 E7 "What Are Little Girls Made of" where the ex-boyfriend of Nurse Chapel used that rotating machine to create androids including the Kirk duplicate

Monica Alarcon

Don't worry. You won't see Harry Mudd again for 50 years...

Monica Alarcon

Oh no wait... He comes back much earlier than that... I forgot...

Brent bmc_comix

Anybody here read the classic Byrne/Claremont Uncanny X-Men comic run? Sylvia really reminds me of the Jean Grey with the Phoenix Force. Corrupted and wanted to feel more human emotions and desires. I know both writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne were giant Star Trek fans. And initially she wasn't supposed to die at the end of that arc, but Jim Shooter, the then Editor-in-Chief of Marvel, said, she anililated an entire planet, Jean has to die. So when the issue was done, John byrne did a lil cartoon drawing of Bones with the word balloon "She's dead Jim!" And sent it to Shooter. Lol 😆

HansD

Speaking of good sci-fi I'd like to request "Oblivion" from 2013. Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Meissa Leo, and others in supporting roles.

Michael

Calling someone Mister is a military term

Rupert Purcat

I love Harry Mudd - and enjoy his interactions with 'Jim my boy'. Will we need Captain Kirk to save us from our AI overlords in the future. I also remember Catspaw from my childhood, it stuck somehow. Probably the giant kitty. I also enjoy how no species is immune to the power of Kirks pelvic sorcery,

danzthename

I, Mudd sort of feels like an hour-long SNL sketch.

Anthony Michaels

Millennial morality is endlessly strange. A man “violating” a “female” robot warrants endless torture and punishment for him. There are only two moral dimensions — one being intersectionality. I truly believe that mere murder is a morally indifferent act, unless the identity of those involved comes into play and aligns in a certain way. It’s amazing how uniformly this new morality has been drilled into an entire generation. As Spock would say, Fascinating!

gfixler

Mudd calls Kirk "laddie buck" several times: here: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5aa3278d-0572-4236-b4fa-f9dd6aaf671e here: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/314cfb36-33ba-42eb-865e-4c56f2faf547 and here: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d32fe406-e18b-425c-95ab-a19331730ec6 ...so I had to look it up. I found a short film from 1919 with that in the name: https://oer.tamiu.edu/itemRecord.php?id=206341 It says "A “laddiebuck” or “laddybuck” was a mildly insulting slang term—a lad is a boy or young man, and a buck here refers to a young horse—hence, this laddiebuck is an ill-mannered youth, like an unbroken horse." In the process, sharing here for no reason except it's cute, I also found this Library of Congress photo of Laddie Buck (left) & Peter Pan from 1923, on the White House lawn, who seemed to be owned by US president Coolidge: https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.09560/ That page doesn't explain, but I found here... https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/calvin-coolidges-paul-pry ...that Laddie Buck was an Airedale terrier, "the half-brother of President Warren Harding’s Laddie Boy, and belonged to the Coolidge family. Paul came to the White House shortly before the departure of his sibling, Peter Pan but seemed to share some of the same tendencies. Paul Pry was known to snap at ankles and was even called a “bad” pet by the Evening Independent newspaper in one of their articles due his mischievous behavior." It goes on to explain why The First Lady renamed him from Laddie Buck to Paul Pry. Here are some pics of Mrs. Coolidge with Rob Roy, supposedly the sibling to Laddie Buck (they look quite different to me), and a couple with Laddie Buck, too: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/Mrs.-Coolidge-rob-Roy.html I've heard the name Rob Roy a few times in my life, though not for a long time now, so I looked that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Roy_MacGregor "Robert Roy MacGregor (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Catholic folk hero." Sounds like another William Wallace. I feel like I've heard someone in an old black and white movie call someone else "a regular Rob Roy," and I didn't exactly know what that meant. I think one of the writers on The Sopranos also liked the term "laddie buck". It's here: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3a94e29b-c952-4298-804d-65a0d17f4626 and here: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2d024efa-c58e-40f3-b84a-3bc2c99fc6e9

Sergio Meira

You two's faces at the revelation of the True Form of the aliens -- the little blue-and-orange(?) thingies -- was just so perfect, so wonderful! George had the right amount of WTF + "what's that?" + "I can't believe it's that silly" while Simone looked so delightfully amused by the cuteness of the aliens -- and they also made cute noises!... You guys' laugh felt like it really came from the heart. That was great! :-)

Sergio Meira

And in "I, Mudd", I am always thoroughly delighted by how much fun all the actors are obviously having. All that irrational behavior -- I can imagine the actors, even Shatner himself, doing their best not to laugh. It must have been a wonderful time!

SpankTheMonk

Cat’s paw was a fun watch again with you two. I think it is known as a silly lower tier episode but I like it. And wow those 1960s outfits are crazy fun.

SpankTheMonk
>>155399895

Yeah I try to remind myself that many episodic TV shows shuffle episodes as needed as long as it doesn’t modify timelines.

SpankTheMonk
>>155417820

Also I am not sure if Simone or George commented/noticed that in Star Trek they don’t formally salute as Starfleet is a more quasi military enterprise- pun intended 😉

SpankTheMonk

Futurama and Austin Powers bots breaking on crazy logic seems to be another Star Trek TOS inspired theme.

Dee Aitch

In case you forgot to look them up: "Credits to navy beans" is a futurization of the more alliterative "nickels to navy beans" where several nickels is bet against something that is very cheap (the beans). It's an old saying, to say the least. In the same vein as "dollars to donuts." Cat's paw comes from a French fable where a monkey enlists a cat to retrieve nuts from the fire for some future reward. The cat retrieves, the monkey gobbles them up immediately, and they're interrupted so the cat has no reward and a burnt paw. It's become an idiom for someone under the control of someone else (which happens in the episode, plus you double down on the "cat" symbology with the antagonist).

Simon Pegged Me

In the Navy, officers sometimes call junior officers "Mister," instead of their rank, or they did in the olden days. Roddenberry incorporated this into Starfleet, so you see senior officers call Ensign Chekov and Lt. Sulu Mister Chekov and Mister Sulu.

WayneC

It was odd that Uhura called the acting commander "Mister" in that episode.

3dbadboy1

Come on, Simone you don't need a Venus drug :) I also wonder, what would Star Fleet Command think about Kirk's solution to this problem, lol.

Kinokind

One viewing "Catspaw" should take a moment to appreciate the episode-specific score by composer Gerald Fried. It has many unusual themes and orchestrations. Most of the incidental music in the series was just recycled from episode to episode, but he obvious expended some special effort on this one. Interested parties might also check out the film "I Bury the Living" (1958), a nifty (if flawed) film about pins in a cemetery map determining who lives and dies. Fried's score for that was excellent and he later recycled a few of its themes for use in Star Trek. Sadly, Harry Mudd only appeared in these two episodes of TOS, although Roger C. Carmel did voice the character once more in the animated series.

Bandaloop

Personal shields are a thing in Star Trek: The Animated Series.