Joseph Nebus
06-16-2008, 11:23 PM
The Way To Eden
Thoughts While Watching:
- New stolen spaceship. It looks kind of like an anti-developed
Surak transport from The Motion Picture.
- Apparently Nichelle Nichols is busy this week.
- They want to go into Romulan space awfully bad. Who's flying
this ship, Matthais Rust?
- Gee, long-distance tractors on a ship trying to flee is
overstraining the engine. Haven't seen *that* before.
- Evidently the Aurora lacks shields, or useful shields at
least.
- Transports can carry on after the ship has been blown up.
- ``Scotty, are they on board?'' See, if they could still
afford non-player character assistants Kirk could get an answer to his
question.
- The great menace: they're wearing outrageous and improbable
costumes and making weird hand signs! It's like they're Vulcans or
something!
- Story by Kramer? Directed by George Costanza?!
- Oh, great, an Ambassador's Son is on board.
- Chekov realizes there's a chance for him to get a subplot this
episode!
- Piracy, violating flight regulations, and entering hostile
space. Where did the piracy come into things?
- So where did Spock pick up space-hippie lingo?
- It's a neat little dramatic reversal that, for once, Kirk is
oblivious to how to treat people while Spock knows just how to charm
them into cooperation.
- They're heading for Eden: a myth. Just ask Shakaree.
- Still, at least Kirk remembers what it was like to be Chekov's
age.
- ``Many myths are based on truth, Captain.'' Mostly ones in
fiction stories that need to have the source-of-the-myth revealed.
- Spock talks of a revulsion against the ``planned communities,
programming, sterilized, artfully-balanced atmospheres''. And people
want ``spring'' to come.
- Herbert: a minor official notorious for his rigid and limited
patterns of thought. How is it Internet lingo hasn't adopted this,
since we all must deal with rigid and limited officials?
- Adam's wearing a fried egg on his strap.
- You know the space hippies are devious what with Doctor
Severin sitting in the lotus pose.
- ``Why did you do it?'' ``Why did you?'' That's Argument
Helper, filling out scripts without getting into anything anyone cares
about.
- Irina has the strange idea that you can have a worthwhile life
without being in Star Fleet. She's lucky she wasn't in any of the
Sequel Treks.
- She stayed in 'the city'. It *sounds* like a detail, but when
you grab at it, it escapes.
- Chapel wants those pesky space hippies in cages.
- Synthococcus Novae. It sounds plausible enough.
- McCoy talks about primitive worlds 'if one existed'. There
aren't uncolonized worlds ready for deposit?
- They've painted that mirror in the 'dumb place' with flat
gray.
- Sulu takes odd pleasure in getting a space egg.
- Adam's songs are really catchy. They've been running in my
head since I first heard them.
- Kirk can't figure out how to reason with them. Spock knows,
of course: bribery and appeals to vanity.
- Doctor Severin's hatred for technology given the disease he
carries makes fair psychological sense. It has the side effect of
suggesting, though, that you need to be diseased not to like living in a
programmed, planned, sterilized community.
- Kirk just rolls his eyes and deals with Spock's desire to go
off finding Eden. This sort of tolerance would come haunt him on the
1701-A.
- You know, Spock's assessment of Severin as 'insane' seems
harsh. Severin may be furious but he seems to have a pretty good cause
for it.
- Spock's got the frame of chimes off of his koon-ut-kal-i-fee
on the wall.
- Now, does Irina not know what Auxiliary Control is, or is she
feigning it to look more helpless to Chekov, or is she just deploying
tactical exposition to the audience?
- Chekov is disgusted by all that Irina has done, but all that
we've really seen that's all that horrible is stealing a small craft.
- Hey, the science officers are doing actual science! And stuff
that makes sense by both 1969 and 2008 standards, studying stars for
previously unnoticed orbiting bodies.
- Sulu specializes in weapons and navigation; his hobby is
botany, last seen in episode #17.
- Beauty close-up shot of the upper saucer here.
- Starships can get a crowd for *any* sort of live
entertainment, including Macbeth and somebody playing the rusty bicycle
frame.
- The concert seems to have captured the souls of the
blue-shirted yeomen in the corridor.
- Man, Star Fleet folks will groove to anything.
- Kirk finally, belatedly, starts to remember what it was like
being young, although he *was* an overachieving, bookish student by the
Academy days.
- Severin has frozen the doors to the control room. He'll
change that policy when he discovers there's no bathroom there.
- Kirk needs to remember this 'mute' button when he's discussing
countermeasures.
- They're going into Romulan space again.
- You know, going from the rather rational 'Romulans will object
to our invading their space' approach to the 'your leader is a madman'
approach is not the way to sound rational yourself.
- Doctor Severin has whipped up a gimmick to incapacitate the
crew; but at least it's been planted that he's a reasonable person to
whip up such a thing.
- Why are they taking a shuttlecraft? Will it be any less
traceable than the transporter?
- Hey, those phasers can cut! They forgot that for like two
seasons.
- And yet again, Shatner and Nimoy have to pantomime agony at
noises to be dubbed in later.
- And yet again, Majel Barret knows how to turn her fall into a
whole scene.
- Hey, they've got the old 'bleep' noise we haven't heard since
'The Corbomite Maneuver' either.
- Gee, how about that? A shuttle has been stolen? How is that
*possible*?
- Ooh, a computer-generated effect for a new 'Eden' body.
- They've landed on a planet of miniature golf courses!
- Good job of the ship's sensors not to notice all the plantlife
was hugely dangerous to touch.
- ``His name was Adam.'' Get it? GET IT? HUH?
- The Galileo II. I'm surprised they aren't on, like, Galileo
XVI by now.
- Aaah! Kirk's insigna jumped to the other side of his shirt!
He's the evil 'wolf' Kirk now!
- Spock is a believer in the perfectibility of society, it looks
like.
Thoughts While Watching:
- New stolen spaceship. It looks kind of like an anti-developed
Surak transport from The Motion Picture.
- Apparently Nichelle Nichols is busy this week.
- They want to go into Romulan space awfully bad. Who's flying
this ship, Matthais Rust?
- Gee, long-distance tractors on a ship trying to flee is
overstraining the engine. Haven't seen *that* before.
- Evidently the Aurora lacks shields, or useful shields at
least.
- Transports can carry on after the ship has been blown up.
- ``Scotty, are they on board?'' See, if they could still
afford non-player character assistants Kirk could get an answer to his
question.
- The great menace: they're wearing outrageous and improbable
costumes and making weird hand signs! It's like they're Vulcans or
something!
- Story by Kramer? Directed by George Costanza?!
- Oh, great, an Ambassador's Son is on board.
- Chekov realizes there's a chance for him to get a subplot this
episode!
- Piracy, violating flight regulations, and entering hostile
space. Where did the piracy come into things?
- So where did Spock pick up space-hippie lingo?
- It's a neat little dramatic reversal that, for once, Kirk is
oblivious to how to treat people while Spock knows just how to charm
them into cooperation.
- They're heading for Eden: a myth. Just ask Shakaree.
- Still, at least Kirk remembers what it was like to be Chekov's
age.
- ``Many myths are based on truth, Captain.'' Mostly ones in
fiction stories that need to have the source-of-the-myth revealed.
- Spock talks of a revulsion against the ``planned communities,
programming, sterilized, artfully-balanced atmospheres''. And people
want ``spring'' to come.
- Herbert: a minor official notorious for his rigid and limited
patterns of thought. How is it Internet lingo hasn't adopted this,
since we all must deal with rigid and limited officials?
- Adam's wearing a fried egg on his strap.
- You know the space hippies are devious what with Doctor
Severin sitting in the lotus pose.
- ``Why did you do it?'' ``Why did you?'' That's Argument
Helper, filling out scripts without getting into anything anyone cares
about.
- Irina has the strange idea that you can have a worthwhile life
without being in Star Fleet. She's lucky she wasn't in any of the
Sequel Treks.
- She stayed in 'the city'. It *sounds* like a detail, but when
you grab at it, it escapes.
- Chapel wants those pesky space hippies in cages.
- Synthococcus Novae. It sounds plausible enough.
- McCoy talks about primitive worlds 'if one existed'. There
aren't uncolonized worlds ready for deposit?
- They've painted that mirror in the 'dumb place' with flat
gray.
- Sulu takes odd pleasure in getting a space egg.
- Adam's songs are really catchy. They've been running in my
head since I first heard them.
- Kirk can't figure out how to reason with them. Spock knows,
of course: bribery and appeals to vanity.
- Doctor Severin's hatred for technology given the disease he
carries makes fair psychological sense. It has the side effect of
suggesting, though, that you need to be diseased not to like living in a
programmed, planned, sterilized community.
- Kirk just rolls his eyes and deals with Spock's desire to go
off finding Eden. This sort of tolerance would come haunt him on the
1701-A.
- You know, Spock's assessment of Severin as 'insane' seems
harsh. Severin may be furious but he seems to have a pretty good cause
for it.
- Spock's got the frame of chimes off of his koon-ut-kal-i-fee
on the wall.
- Now, does Irina not know what Auxiliary Control is, or is she
feigning it to look more helpless to Chekov, or is she just deploying
tactical exposition to the audience?
- Chekov is disgusted by all that Irina has done, but all that
we've really seen that's all that horrible is stealing a small craft.
- Hey, the science officers are doing actual science! And stuff
that makes sense by both 1969 and 2008 standards, studying stars for
previously unnoticed orbiting bodies.
- Sulu specializes in weapons and navigation; his hobby is
botany, last seen in episode #17.
- Beauty close-up shot of the upper saucer here.
- Starships can get a crowd for *any* sort of live
entertainment, including Macbeth and somebody playing the rusty bicycle
frame.
- The concert seems to have captured the souls of the
blue-shirted yeomen in the corridor.
- Man, Star Fleet folks will groove to anything.
- Kirk finally, belatedly, starts to remember what it was like
being young, although he *was* an overachieving, bookish student by the
Academy days.
- Severin has frozen the doors to the control room. He'll
change that policy when he discovers there's no bathroom there.
- Kirk needs to remember this 'mute' button when he's discussing
countermeasures.
- They're going into Romulan space again.
- You know, going from the rather rational 'Romulans will object
to our invading their space' approach to the 'your leader is a madman'
approach is not the way to sound rational yourself.
- Doctor Severin has whipped up a gimmick to incapacitate the
crew; but at least it's been planted that he's a reasonable person to
whip up such a thing.
- Why are they taking a shuttlecraft? Will it be any less
traceable than the transporter?
- Hey, those phasers can cut! They forgot that for like two
seasons.
- And yet again, Shatner and Nimoy have to pantomime agony at
noises to be dubbed in later.
- And yet again, Majel Barret knows how to turn her fall into a
whole scene.
- Hey, they've got the old 'bleep' noise we haven't heard since
'The Corbomite Maneuver' either.
- Gee, how about that? A shuttle has been stolen? How is that
*possible*?
- Ooh, a computer-generated effect for a new 'Eden' body.
- They've landed on a planet of miniature golf courses!
- Good job of the ship's sensors not to notice all the plantlife
was hugely dangerous to touch.
- ``His name was Adam.'' Get it? GET IT? HUH?
- The Galileo II. I'm surprised they aren't on, like, Galileo
XVI by now.
- Aaah! Kirk's insigna jumped to the other side of his shirt!
He's the evil 'wolf' Kirk now!
- Spock is a believer in the perfectibility of society, it looks
like.