I'm sure this is old to some of you, but this is the first time that I
have had the chance to watch this. I have not seen of the other New
Voyages episodes either.

First the pros: writing, direction, music, sets, and effects were
first rate. This could have easily been a Gene Coon-less episode in
the late second season. Well done, but without Coon's special touch.

Now the cons: wow, is it tough watching anyone but the original cast.
At best, the new cast is competent, but they do not project the same
stage presence as the originals. I give them an A for effort, but
they are merely doing whole hearted imitations.

Except for George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney. Mr. Sulu was the same,
yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I suppose it was not intended this
way, but Sulu was the lead in the show and the triangle of Kirk,
Spock, and McCoy could just not measure up. And Grace Lee, she seems
a logical progression of the yeoman that she once was, though some
unseen burden appeared lifted from her. These two are class
thoroughbreds as actors.

In all, I was entertained and will catch up on the other episodes. I
give this ***.

marshallkarp@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm sure this is old to some of you, but this is the first time that I
> have had the chance to watch this. I have not seen of the other New
> Voyages episodes either.
>
> First the pros: writing, direction, music, sets, and effects were
> first rate. This could have easily been a Gene Coon-less episode in
> the late second season. Well done, but without Coon's special touch.

I liked "World Enough and Time" a lot. The only problem I had with it
was that the pacing slowed down considerably in the scenes featuring
Sulu's daughter. She talks and talks, and talks and talks. They should
have trimmed that.


> Now the cons: wow, is it tough watching anyone but the original cast.
> At best, the new cast is competent, but they do not project the same
> stage presence as the originals. I give them an A for effort, but
> they are merely doing whole hearted imitations.

Cawley is afraid to reinterpret the roles. His philosophy is to make
New Voyages look like it really was a putative fourth season of TOS. So
you're getting imitations of the original actors, not new
interpretations of the roles.

I think the Trek XI movie will be different: Abrams isn't telling his
actors to imitate the original cast. I know for a fact that Scotty's
accent is going to be different!


>
> Except for George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney. Mr. Sulu was the same,
> yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I suppose it was not intended this
> way, but Sulu was the lead in the show and the triangle of Kirk,
> Spock, and McCoy could just not measure up.

I had heard that Roddenberry had originally toyed with the idea of doing
TOS that way: Each new episode could emphasize a different character.
We saw a little of that in season 1, in which Yeoman Rand was clearly
the focus in "Charlie X," Dr. McCoy was the focus in "Man Trap," etc.

That concept got dropped quickly, and the show devolved into the
familiar Kirk-Spock-McCoy triangle for the subsequent seasons; only
Spock's Vulcan heritage got special treatment.


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