Tidbits of TOS

[Spock's Barber]

Post a comment about something from an episode of TOS that either inspires you or irritates you.

Here’s mine…although it’s not my favorite TOS episode by a long shot, in The Savage Curtain Kirk’s last words to Yarnek are “We came in peace.” I still believe that essentially sums up GR’s philosophy of Star Trek.

 

[scotpens]

In the inspirational department, from "This Side of Paradise": "No wants. No needs. We weren't meant for that. None of us. Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

In the inspirational department, from "This Side of Paradise": "No wants. No needs. We weren't meant for that. None of us. Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

''Indeed, Captain. Yet I see a certain illogic in your statement when using 20/20 hindsight, given that the first actor who portrayed your role wrote twice as many books as anyone about our show despite appreciating it half as much at best as its other acting participants.''

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I quite like the parting words that Theodore Sturgeon wrote for Spock in "Amok Time":

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

As a collector, those words often ring in my head. You lust after a certain white whale for years, and when you finally get it, it just becomes another thing that you own.

Of course in the context of the episode, it's essentially Spock telling Stonn, "Hey, have fun being married to the bitchface, asshole."

I also love Kirk's last words to Mirror Spock in "Mirror, Mirror," as written by Jerome Bixby:

"In every revolution, there's one man with a vision."

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I quite like the parting words that Theodore Sturgeon wrote for Spock in "Amok Time":

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

As a collector, those words often ring in my head. You lust after a certain white whale for years, and when you finally get it, it just becomes another thing that you own.

We often sell what we used to love. Sometimes in the very same year.

 

[FredH]

From “The Immunity Syndrome” —

“You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.”

(EDIT: And although it’s not TOS, I’d like to add the one good line in the otherwise execrable Section 31 movie: “There are no benevolent dictators.”)

 

[JonnyQuest037]

On the irritation side, I despised it when the one character I liked in the Section 31 movie said, "Chaos is my Friend with Benefits." UGH.

 

[FredH]

On the irritation side, I despised it when the one character I liked in the Section 31 movie said, "Chaos is my Friend with Benefits." UGH.

I do not disagree…

 

[Phaser Two]

Post a comment about something from an episode of TOS that either inspires you or irritates you.

Here’s mine…although it’s not my favorite TOS episode by a long shot, in The Savage Curtain Kirk’s last words to Yarnek are “We came in peace.” I still believe that essentially sums up GR’s philosophy of Star Trek.

Great thread idea and starting comment.

"And you may go in peace" is an equally awesome response. Every line spoken by Yarnek is brilliant.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Great thread idea and starting comment.

"And you may go in peace" is an equally awesome response. Every line spoken by Yarnek is brilliant.

Yes, I didn’t realize that. Yarnek responded to Kirk as an intelligent alien, who was simply seeking new information from another source. Another less qualified SF writer might have just made Yarnek a one dimensional evil alien out to destroy all humans.

 

[Khan Jr]

Kirk: They were humanitarians and statesmen. And they had a dream. A dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars. A dream that made Mr. Spock and me brothers.

Garth: Mr. Spock! Do you consider Captain Kirk and yourself brothers?

Spock: Captain Kirk speaks somewhat figuratively and with undue emotion. However, what he says is logical, and I do, in fact, agree with it.

 

[Poltargyst]

''Indeed, Captain. Yet I see a certain illogic in your statement when using 20/20 hindsight, given that the first actor who portrayed your role wrote twice as many books as anyone about our show despite appreciating it half as much at best as its other acting participants.''

What does this mean?

 

[publiusr]

We often sell what we used to love. Sometimes in the very same year.

“There’s a million things you can have—and a million things you can’t have.”

-a favorite

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

What does this mean?

Shatner exploited his role on TV by booking us to death compared to his costars and colleagues.

 

[Ssosmcin]

There's value in pretty much every segment. Even in an episode overflowing with rhetoric and speeches, one of them had to hit. Here are a couple:

BELE: It is obvious to the most simpleminded that Lokai is of an inferior breed.
SPOCK: The obvious visual evidence, Commissioner, is that he is of the same breed as yourself.
BELE: Are you blind, Commander Spock? Well, look at me. Look at me!
KIRK: You're black on one side and white on the other.
BELE: I am black on the right side.
KIRK: I fail to see the significant difference.
BELE: Lokai is white on the right side. All of his people are white on the right side.

and

KIRK: Stop it! What's the matter with you two? Didn't you hear Spock? Your planet is dead! There's nobody alive on Cheron because of hate. The cause you fought about no longer exists. Give yourselves time to breathe. Give up your hate. You're welcome to live with us. Listen to me. You both must end up dead ... if you don't stop hating.

 

[Phaser Two]

Shatner exploited his role on TV by booking us to death compared to his costars and colleagues.

What?

 

[Ssosmcin]

Shatner exploited his role on TV by booking us to death compared to his costars and colleagues.

So your issue is that Shatner is successfully publishing books people are apparantly reading and Takei isn't?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

What?

Shatner exploited his role on TV by booking us to death compared to his costars and colleagues.

So your issue is that Shatner is successfully publishing books people are apparantly reading and Takei isn't?

Apparently. ALL trek books are read up the wazoo and that's one of the reasons why we're here exactly now. We never got a Majel Barrett bio but it would easily have made substantial profits. You may have issues with Takei, whom I never brought up, but all my significant issues are LEGION OF SUPER HEROES.

 

[Phaser Two]

Shatner exploited his role on TV by booking us to death compared to his costars and colleagues.

Apparently. ALL trek books are read up the wazoo and that's one of the reasons why we're here exactly now. We never got a Majel Barrett bio but it would easily have made substantial profits. You may have issues with Takei, whom I never brought up, but all my significant issues are LEGION OF SUPER HEROES.

Uh . . . oh. I see.