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With just 22 episodes, we have come to the end of The Animated Series. Here’s a breakdown of our ratings:
Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch Wrap-Up
– August 11, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “The Counter-Clock Incident”
– August 9, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“The Counter-Clock Incident”
Written by John Culver
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 6
Production episode: 22023
Original air date: October 12, 1974
Star date: 6770.3
Mission summary
Enterprise is heading back to the planet of the diplomats, Babel, with another very special guest: her first captain, Commodore Robert April.
APRIL: No matter where I’ve traveled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else.
KIRK: Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling.
APRIL: To me she was always like my child. I was there in the San Francisco Navy Yards when her unit components were built.
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
– August 4, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
Written by Russell Bates and David Wise
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 5
Production episode: 22022
Original air date: October 5, 1974
Star date: 6063.4
Mission summary
In an ominous beginning, a mysterious space probe takes a scan of Earth’s system and then self-destructs. The Enterprise’s mission is to trace the imploded propulsion system’s destructive matter trail to its origin and find out where it came from and who sent it.
They don’t make it very far before they find a huge “crystalline ceramic” ship twice the size of the Enterprise. It’s pretty far away but they can’t get any closer for inspection–some kind of “globular force field,” firm yet flexible, has entrapped them. As the offending ship becomes more visible they realize it looks like a giant winged snake. Needless to say, it’s not anyone the Federation has had contact with before.
Luckily, this week’s minority helmsmen is Walking Bear, not Sulu, and he recognizes the ship’s design immediately: it looks kind of like the winged serpent Kukulkan.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Viewing Party
– August 3, 2011 8:30 amPosted in: Movies
For those interested in the party, the viewing will begin this Sunday, August 7th, at 2pm EST. You’ll have to provide your own copy of the film, and as with all of our reviews, we’ll be watching the original theatrical release–no director’s cut, no “remastering,” just the movie as it was presented in 1979.
I’ll be around no later than 1:30pm if you want to test out your microphone and just chat pub-style before the movie starts.
Skype is going to be the utility of choice for both voice and text. Skype is free and works on all platforms, so sign up! If you have a microphone, great, and if not, don’t worry about it–Skype has a text-based chat window, too. I may snag an unlimited subscription so if you don’t have a microphone but do have a regular phone and want to be part of the chat, e-mail me your phone number (torie.atkinson [at] gmail [dot] com) and I will call you so you can join us.
My name on Skype is torie.atkinson and Eugene is e.c.myers. Cover charge is at least one entertaining story to fill the long…tedious…silences of this film. Drinking game* optional**.
Let us know, if you haven’t already, if we should expect you!
* I did this for Wrath of Khan once. It was insane.
** It’s not Star Trek V, after all.
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “Albatross”
– August 2, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“Albatross”
Written by Dario Finelli
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 4
Production episode: 22019
Original air date: September 28, 1974
Star date: 5275.6
Mission summary
After Enterprise delivers medical supplies to Dramia, the grateful Dramians reward them by arresting Dr. McCoy, claiming that 19 years before he caused a plague that killed hundreds of people on Dramia II.
Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice… Kirk is incensed at these accusations and distrusts the Dramian legal system. But McCoy starts to doubt himself. Read the rest of this entry »
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “The Practical Joker”
– July 28, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“The Practical Joker”
Written by Chuck Menville
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 3
Production episode: 22021
Original air date: September 21, 1974
Star date: 3183.3
Mission summary
The Enterprise is on a routine geological mission exploring asteroids. Kirk notes that they’re ahead of schedule and “the cruise has been uneventful,” which is filed with “They’ll never find us here!” or “What could possibly go wrong?” in the Ways You Should Not Tempt Fate folder.
As if alerted by the hubris, a trio of Romulan ships begin to fire on the Enterprise.
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The Star Trek Movies Viewing Party
– July 27, 2011 12:00 pmPosted in: Movies
The movies will soon be upon us and Eugene and I want to do something a little different. We’ve all been watching these episodes on our own, here and there scattered across the world. But the modern home theater shift aside, films were meant to be seen in huge groups, together.
So what about a simultaneous viewing party? I’d probably set up some kind of audio or text chat, and we’d have to work out options for syncing up our various streaming, DVD, and blu-ray options, or some kind of desktop sharing.
Obviously this idea only works if people other than Eugene and I are interested, so cast your vote! Would you participate if we did it? Let us know when you’re free, and comment your thoughts and suggestions. I’m thinking either this weekend or next. Details such as timing and which movies are subject to feedback and the global locations of interested parties.
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “Bem”
– July 26, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“Bem”
Written by David Gerrold
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 2
Production episode: 22018
Original air date: September 14, 1974
Star date: 7403.6
Mission summary
Enterprise is hosting a very special guest: Ari bn Bem, a representative for the Federation’s new friends, the Pandronians. He’s there to observe the crew, but he seems fairly disinterested in their mission of exploration until they arrive at Delta Theta III to investigate reports of aboriginal life.
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “The Pirates of Orion”
– July 21, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“The Pirates of Orion”
Written by Howard Weinstein
Directed by Bill Reed
Season 2, Episode 1
Production episode: 22020
Original air date: September 7, 1974
Star date: 6334.1
Mission summary
Aboard the Enterprise, an outbreak of some nasty disease called choriocytosis is finally under control. The good doctor assures the crew it’s no longer “even as serious as pneumonia”–which is, um, actually pretty serious? In any case, Kirk tries to drum up excitement for the dedication ceremony they’re en route toward at Deneb V:
KIRK: It’ll be nice to play diplomat for a change, eh, Spock?
And then Spock keels over. Diplomacy is intolerable.
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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: “The Jihad”
– July 19, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
“The Jihad”
Written by Stephen Kandel
Directed by Hal Sutherland
Season 1, Episode 16
Production episode: 22014
Original air date: January 12, 1974
Star date: 5683.1
Mission summary
Kirk and Spock are summoned by the Vedala, the oldest space-faring race known to the Federation, to help prevent an imminent danger to the galaxy. At the Vedala asteroid, they meet a motley crew: their Vedala host, a feline alien; Tchar, a birdman from Skorr; Sord, a reptilian humanoid; M3 Green, a cowardly bug who is also a locksmith and thief; and Lara, a human hunter with an uncanny sense of direction. What, are they planning a heist?
