November 10

[ijdgaf]

Thanks for all the high praise guys (and gals)!

Sa'ar -- that has to be the most impressive feat of quoting I have ever seen.

Originally Posted by Derek

Hilarious fivers, IJD! I'm just surprised you didn't put in some 60s song references. I was really expecting to hear Kirk say he had a hard day's night or to hear Spock refered to as Secret Agent(Asian) Man.

d'oh!

Originally Posted by Scooter

This and the card-flipping gag were my favorites. I love IJD's Kirk--he's so venal and clueless. Poor long-suffering Spock.

Uhura using up the hailing minutes--best Uhura gag in a long time too. Excellent fivers dude!

Yeah especially on TOS, it's easy to marginalize the side characters. Something I definitely need to work on.

Originally Posted by mudshark

You know, The Omega Glory may not have been among the very best episodes of Star Trek, but I really don't think that it's as awful as some folks make it out to be. Morgan Woodward's bug-eyed performance ("We emptied four of our phasers, and they still came!") is worth the price of admission alone.

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"The Omega Glory" rocks. It's one of the best original series episodes around...

...until about 35 minutes in. Then it's one of the worst original series episodes around. Okay, I can vaguely accept that planets can develop somewhat similarly to Earth in a few respects. But an identical flag? The Declaration of Independence word for word? I'm sorry, but that's just a little stupid.

And the message at the end wasn't even terribly Roddenberry-esque (surprisng, since he wrote it). I mean the guy could be considered a utopian socialist, and he writes this almost-absurdly patriotic episode? I dunno, something seems off to me there.

The episode has great acting, an intriguing story -- everything I love about the show. Except for some reason they just totally ruin it in the last 15 minutes.

Anyway, thanks for all the high praise everyone. I'm glad everyone enjoyed 'em.