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Trekkies - 11/17/2008 2:15:01 AM

Termyn8or

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I have mentioned this before. Now is a good time because it is the middle of the night and for a change I am actually getting drunk. Normally I never want to get incoherent but today it is 4:30 AM and I ain't going to sleep until I can't walk. All I need to remember is to be nice on CM and don't touch the phone.

I watched TOS, every one of them, even the ones they lost somehow. I remember things.

For example in "Piece Of The Action" I remember a hooker coming up to one of the local bosse's henchmen to complain about the streetlight being out. That was edited out a long time ago. Kinda like The Day The Earth Stood Still. I remember Klatoo outlining the plan to the UN and the Russian delegate saying "Russia will never agree to it" to which Klatoo replied "Then there'll be no Russia". That part probably hit the cutting room floor before I ever has sex. Then in a discussion I was told of a part that I did not remember, when the Woman was in the cab with Klatoo and said that she wanted to go with him. Klatoo, boradus, nikto.

Similarly, many episodes of TOS were lost somehow. I watched it in syndication for quite some time and some episodes just seemed to disappear. I won't even attempt to download these, I would have to buy another harddrive first. But then that is not my point.

Many ethical and moral questions were raised, especially in Roddenberry's day. Like in TNG, the two planets that had enough technology to get to one another and had had a disease. A drug was developed on one of the planets and they were selling it to the other planet. The disease was gone, but the drug was somewhat narcotic and the inhabitants of the one planet were addicted to it. They show up in rags, their ship is pretty much what we would call a shitcan and Piccard helped them out. Until he got wind of the whole situation. The other planet though was doing really well, the people from there dressed in fine robes and all that. They were just going to be good samaritans and give them the parts for their ship, but toward the end Piccard said no.

Take your drugs, this and that but we ain't fixing the ship. The ragtags were pleading, seemingly for their lives and the rich bitches were pissed off as well. One planet's population was exploiting another's. All they had to do was get off the stuff, the rich planet had done this, and it was found that they knew exactly what they were doing. Piccard told Crusher that the prime directive prohibited it. She was the one who found that these people no longer had the disease, but did not understand. She also did not understand why he did not allow her to treat the addiction, nor even tell them that the drug was not necessary. Looks like an interplanetary war coming up soon eh ?

Then we have the original Menagerie (sp) and it's sequel with Spock taking Captain Pike back to Tallos 4, somehow skirting the only death penalty they had still on the books.

I watched TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager. TV will never be that good again. So any thoughts on this ? I think the whole thing was fantastic. It took them years to do it, but they even figured out a way to explain how all these aliens spoke English.

Fascinating, as Spock would say.

Any thoughts ?

T