tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post836637426977484121..comments2024-03-28T17:08:01.559-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Star Trek: The Corbomite ManeuverBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-32291420729237918252023-06-26T08:43:45.241-04:002023-06-26T08:43:45.241-04:00Great review(s) here. This is a favorite of mine, ...Great review(s) here. This is a favorite of mine, and in some ways feels a bit like a precursor to TNG's Q (a super powerful alien that the Enterprise has to deal with, not always as successfully as they'd like). The main cast is great here, and Kirk is especially good here I feel.<br /><br />I have to agree on Bailey too. I'm not a fan of xenophobia in the first place, and always play other races in video games (mostly Chiss in SWTOR, trolls and goblins in WoW, and so on), but between that massive issue and his other flaws, he shouldn't have gotten that test in the first place, hand him a plunger!<br /><br />I love it when the show does stuff like this; creates an interesting episode for both those that just watch it for spectacle, and those that want to go deeper. It's one of the best of TOS to be sure.Morellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852528242739450099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-20813181007646050952016-07-12T15:20:52.886-04:002016-07-12T15:20:52.886-04:00Always one of my favorites. It was the second epi...Always one of my favorites. It was the second episode filmed with the "classic" main cast, and the one in which Leonard Nimoy and director Joe Sargent "discovered" Spock's defining charcteristic: the lack of emotion.Baby Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-69032996230180130602016-06-04T09:44:15.315-04:002016-06-04T09:44:15.315-04:00the original episodes were all shot on film, tv...the original episodes were all shot on film, tv's of that time of course degraded the image horribly, we now have a nice clear shot of the enterprise being threatened by a bunch of woodweaver salad bowls on wires, you have to love it just the way it is though, don't change a ting losthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08883505118649280875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-32871206307760247142010-06-20T13:57:47.603-04:002010-06-20T13:57:47.603-04:00Thanks so much, Green Hornet -- I always enjoy you...Thanks so much, Green Hornet -- I always enjoy your comments.<br /><br />Yes, the screen shot from the remastered version is definitely gorgeous. I chose it because it just seemed to beautifully illustrate the theme of the episode.Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-7228461950007756972010-06-20T12:40:52.024-04:002010-06-20T12:40:52.024-04:00--As always, an insightful and entertaining review...--As always, an insightful and entertaining review, Billie!<br /><br />Ok, impressions. First of all that screen shot at the top of the review is gorgeous, I sure don't remember THAT level of detail from ye olde interlaced-scan TeleVisio magnaboxes of my youth! For that reason alone the new remastered DVD sets seem totally worth it.<br /><br />Then, the voices. Watching Gintle Bin's Clint Howard (before the fact of course, but reruns gave us among our first instances of the "heeey, isn't that the kid from...!" moment) as he mouthed the weird adult male voice, just freaked-us-kids-out. Not to mention that of Ted Cassidy's voiceover for the manquette alien (whose Outer Limits type face reappeared in every ep's end credits, freaking us out yet aGAIN). All of which makes for a nice reiteration of the story's themelet of Book versus Cover, among others.<br /><br />Which then leads me to "tranya". No, sorry; "trannnnnnnnnnn-ya". Jiminy, even the WORD freaked us out! Now, I know we've become a much more referential culture these days, with in-jokes inside in-jokes like Russian dolls nested down to the subatomic level -- but wouldn't it have been kinda sorta cool if a later Trek series had played with the idea of someone being hooked on tranya? Not covered it the way they often did with IMPORTANT, Very Special Topics in order to make a moral statement, the evils of addiction for instance. No, more of a simple toss in the pot, maybe a wino in the streets of Argelius brushing past Picard or other hero muttering "trannnnnnn-ya" and looking like a very old Bailey! That would be fun -- or maybe it tells you more about me than any of us'd prefer. :-)<br /><br />And finally, you can really sense that the writers enjoyed and let loose in the Spock interactions; some of the funniest, wry and insightful things are said therein! Smart -- with definite POV behind a seemingly innocuous, objective observation. (A true difference from the usual observations of Data, for example.)<br /><br />Good stuff!GreenHornethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400048484864815977noreply@blogger.com