(09-11-2022, 08:50 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Was your rewatch the original aired version or the remastered? If you have the original, do a slow motion play of the shot where the Enterprise fires its phaser at the planet and you can see the wires duct taped to one of the ship model's warp nacelles.
lol, I'll have to look for that. The version I was was the remastered one on Paramount. I remember Robert Brown from Here Come the Brides. He was much better in it than in Star Trek. The show was a favorite of mine as a kid. Bobby Sherman was at the height of his popularity.
I used to go to Barnes and Noble and purchase some of the Star Trek novels. One was a Here Come the Brides crossover. Despite the outrageously ridiculous premise, it actually turned out to be a great read and would have made a good episode.
(09-11-2022, 08:50 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: This episode was a good example of why a starship captain should stay on the bridge of his ship. They mostly used stunt people to play security redshirts, so the fight/struggle scene would not only have made more sense if it had been them, it probably would have looked a lot better as well. Two actors struggling on the screen instead of two stunt people or one actor and one stunt person really belongs on a comedy show.
It would have been even better had they not used Lazarus' ship to bounce off of while they were fighting. I have to admit, security just standing about after Kirk gives his order to stand back...........totally classic.
If I were Kirk, I would have been pissed if Starfleet decided to pull their ships back and leave mine alone to hash things out. Another piece of stupidity in an episode that is full of them.
There were many things I wondered about while watching this episode, including who was responsible for Robert Brown's terrible beard, but I digress. William Shatner was sporting under the eye makeup, and it was just as bad.
So this guy all of the sudden shows up on the Enterprise's radar, and tells them his name is Lazarus. Supposedly he is the insane one from the positive universe. I'm wondering why the Enterprise didn't do computer check on this guy. They just take what he says as the truth until Spock later proves him to be a liar. Even then, the idea of a computer check doesn't dawn on anyone.
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