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Star Trek Re-Watch: “Metamorphosis”

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Eugene Myers & Torie Atkinson
– February 25, 2010 9:21 pmPosted in: TOS Re-Watch

“Metamorphosis”
Written by Gene L. Coon
Directed by Ralph Senensky

Season 2, Episode 9
Production episode:
Original air date: November 10, 1967
Star date: 3219.8

Mission summary

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are escorting Assistant Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford in the shuttlecraft Galileo to the Enterprise for emergency medical care. In the middle of delicate negotiations on Epsilon Canaris III, she contracted Sakuro’s disease, a rare illness that is fatal if left untreated. She’s anxious to get back to prevent a war, but when they’re only four hours away from rendezvous with the ship, scanners pick up a weird cloud in space blocking their way. Hedford whines about the situation, but that has no effect. The cloud sucks the shuttle in and whisks them off course.

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Star Trek Re-Watch: “I, Mudd”

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Torie Atkinson & Eugene Myers
– February 18, 2010 9:09 pmPosted in: TOS Re-Watch

“I, Mudd”
Written by Stephen Kandel
Directed by Marc Daniels

Season 2, Episode 9
Production episode: 2×12
Original air date: November 3, 1967
Star date: 4513.3

Mission Summary:
A new crewmember, Norman, has come aboard the Enterprise, and he stiffly greets Doctor McCoy and Spock in the hallway. Bones has a bad feeling about him—and since he’s the emotional core of the show, so do we.

MCCOY: There’s something wrong about a man who never smiles, whose conversation never varies from the routine of the job, and who won’t talk about his background.
SPOCK: I see.
MCCOY: Spock, I mean that it’s odd for a non-Vulcan. The ears make all the difference.

Norman makes his way to Auxiliary Control, where he silently karate-chops the crewman there and inputs a new course direction. Sulu can’t override it, and Security can’t seem to find Norman, which is shocking considering he’s taller than even Nimoy and looks like a giant among elves. Norman makes his way to Engineering next, knocking out poor Mr. Scott and reconfiguring the matter-antimatter pods into a trigger relay (yada yada SCIENCE!) that will destroy the ship if they try and override it. He then heads to the bridge, where an angry Kirk demands to know who he is and where they’re now inexorably headed.

Norman says in stilted pauses that “we” require the Enterprise, and reveals a circuit panel on his abdomen, complete with blinking lights: he’s an android! He then crosses his arms and turns himself off for the duration of the flight.

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Star Trek Online: First Contact

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Torie Atkinson & Eugene Myers
– February 2, 2010 2:58 amPosted in: Uncategorized

If you’ve been wondering what Eugene and Torie have been up to while the re-watch has been on hiatus, here’s a little hint: today is launch day for Star Trek Online!

The beta and head start weekend have been rocky1 and while we have our quibbles, Star Trek Online is shaping up to be a compelling, engaging MMORPG. We each had the chance to poke around for several hours leading up the release, and below the fold we share our first impressions and reactions. A more in-depth post will follow once we’ve had the chance to dig our teeth into it even more.

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