tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post6335535683239313503..comments2024-03-28T21:59:22.465-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Star Trek: The Enterprise IncidentBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-89544779297326400042023-09-15T07:47:13.506-04:002023-09-15T07:47:13.506-04:00Love it so. Joanne Linville was brilliant. I perso...Love it so. Joanne Linville was brilliant. I personally think the idea that a woman couldn't command a starship to be ludicrous, but this was the 60s, and here TOS proves that it can be quite progressive when it tries! She pulls off commanding and sexy so well. <br /><br />It is a bit reminiscent of balance of terror of course, but that's not a bad thing as that story is also great, so it's in excellent company. The scenes between Spock and the commander were just so good. I love it when a good show with good actors (regular and guest in this case) get good writing and give us gems like this one.Morellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852528242739450099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-45716473094352480312021-03-01T09:26:29.686-05:002021-03-01T09:26:29.686-05:00Solid respect to the romulans for understanding th...Solid respect to the romulans for understanding that comfy and sexy don't have to be mutually exclusiveMikey Heinrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053287699381988084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-2495976696878624992016-09-20T01:51:44.061-04:002016-09-20T01:51:44.061-04:00An entertaining, if at first a little confusing, e...An entertaining, if at first a little confusing, episode. I love love loved that the Romulan commander was a female, and that there was no sexism in this episode. Wonderful.<br /><br />Her "seduction" of Spock and his playing along was an interesting dynamic. The way I understood it, him getting intimate with her was not part of the original plan, but he certainly had no problem going along with it. I thought he seemed genuinely interested in her, compared to all the women he'd gotten closer to in the past. Neither humans nor Vulcans interested him, but finally, here was a being who did. It also kind of paves the way for his later work with the Romulans. As I understand it from hearsay, he eventually ends up devoting himself as a covert ambassador or something along those lines, and spends time among them disguised as one.<br /><br />It was great seeing how Romulans acted. We'd seen them before, but that was quite a while back. They were physiologically almost identical to Vulcans, but didn't need to repress their emotions. Great seeing Spock looking just as alien among them as he did among humans. Really sold the "descendent of two worlds, native of neither" thing. Also showed that he could probably learn to live peacefully with his emotions.<br /><br />No posturing from Spock this episode. No "if I had feelings, which I don't, I would feel this way" speeches and denials. Maybe that scene he had with McCoy back in 'Bread and Circuses' did him some good, and he's realized that not only is no one buying it, but he doesn't need to. I love character development. Hopefully it sticks.<br /><br />Kirk looked pretty great as a Romulan. Dunno what Spock was on about, he totally rocked those ears. Odd that he'd need actual cosmetic surgery rather than just a disguise for what amounted to being a quick job. Another crew member would probably have been a safer choice than him, seeing as the Romulans knew his face (Romulan Sulu, anyone?) but I know this is ultimately the Kirk and Spock and Sometimes McCoy Show and it was a good episode, so I can't really complain. Outsider65noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-14586581655482583252012-08-31T23:53:10.462-04:002012-08-31T23:53:10.462-04:00I would like to know what Spock and the Romulan Co...I would like to know what Spock and the Romulan Commander "exchanged?" Obviously some sort of metal sharing of a very intimate kind that had to be voluntary......Certainly not his "katra?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-49441177735391741182011-10-02T20:19:14.956-04:002011-10-02T20:19:14.956-04:00Glad to be of service, Billie - I've enjoyed r...Glad to be of service, Billie - I've enjoyed reading your reviews and am happy to provide my WABAC perspective on the original episodes.<br /><br />I've actually been watching Star Trek since I was a kid (I even have an old picture of a 10-year-old me in a homemade command shirt, circa 1968) but don't really consider myself a "first-generation" fan (like such famous fans as Ruth Berman and Joan Winston and Elyse Pines and Allan Asherman and the others) as I didn't get serious about Star Trek until around 1973, culminating in my own fanzine ("Logically Star Trek") in 1975 and 1976. I actually wrote about ten ST stories in my late teens, including the obligatory "Mary Sue" story involving a teenage FOTC cadet who stows aboard the Enterprise but who (naturally!) saves the day.<br /><br />Lest anyone think I'm one of those obsessed-Trekkie types they're writing about nowadays, though, I actually have a wide range of interests - baseball, animation, Silver Age comics, rock-n-roll music (especially the Beatles and Weird Al Yankovic), television, biographies, etc.<br /><br />In short, while I may be a bit of a geek, at least I'm a *well-rounded* geek. ;-)Jerry Modenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-72984621907203776082011-09-24T18:34:03.698-04:002011-09-24T18:34:03.698-04:00Thanks for posting all those fun tidbits, Jerry. ...Thanks for posting all those fun tidbits, Jerry. I'm enjoying all of your comments.Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-10401398243996025652011-09-24T17:46:11.320-04:002011-09-24T17:46:11.320-04:00This is an episode that has aged well, but we old-...This is an episode that has aged well, but we old-timers remember that when it first aired, it caught quite a bit of flak from the fans, who didn't like Spock's chasing after the Romulan Commander.<br /><br />Dorothy Fontana even got hate mail over this episode, and in Gerrold's "World of Star Trek" had to clear things up by noting that the love scenes were rewritten by someone else (my guess would be the new story editor, Arthur Singer). The most tender line in her version of the script was "I admire your mind."<br /><br />"The Enterprise Incident" was originally intended to be a retelling of the then-current Pueblo Incident, but NBC vetoed the idea as too touchy - after all, the Pueblo crew was still beind held captive by the North Koreans at the time.<br /><br />A few other tidbits:<br /><br />While this was indeed the second time we see Romulans face-to-face, we did see their ships - stock footage from "Balance of Terror" - in the second season's "The Deadly Years".<br /><br />The Klingon ship was built between the second and third seasons by Matt Jefferies, and made its debut in "Elaan of Troyius", the second episode produced for the third season - but that episode was pre-empted, so when we finally see a Klingon ship for the first time, it's full of Romulans.<br /><br />Why the switch? The story is that sometime between 1966 and 1968, the original model of the Romulan ship was stolen, and they just didn't have the time (or the money) to build another. So, they just tossed in a line about how the Romulans were "now using Klingon design" and voila!<br /><br />All in all, this is not a bad episode; as I say, it's aged well. Linville plays her part well, and I thought Jack Donner's portrayal of her deputy was well done as well - I always had a sense that there was a little more than met the eye in *his* relationship with the Commander.Jerry Modenenoreply@blogger.com