Tag Archives: The Original Series

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Roger Pocock

We come now to what I consider the finest of the Trek movies.  But to understand that, I need to rewind to 1991.  I’m 19 and at this point in our lives, my friends and I start every weekend with … Continue reading →

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Roger Pocock

The year is 1989; 10 years after Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  Rumor is, this is the final Star Trek movie.  I’m 17 and I have a brainwave.  I thought, for the tenth anniversary, I should see if my grandfather … Continue reading →

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a lighthearted Trek movie and as a result, may be one of the very best.  Another tubular Doomsday Machine is on a direct course to earth.  This is taking ideas from the classic … Continue reading →

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Star Trek III is, in many ways, the flip side of the coin that was Star Trek II.  In the former, we get a good old spaceship battle akin to the classic episode Balance of Terror (which itself was basically … Continue reading →

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Star Trek II is usually considered the best of the classic movie series. (I think that distinction goes to The Undiscovered Country, however this is a close contender and both were directed by Nicholas Meyer.)  Like most Trek, there are … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Roger Pocock

The year is 1979.  I am 7 years old and sitting in my living room in the far corner by the large brown chair when my grandfather comes over.  He has a newspaper with him and offers to take me … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Arriving on the planet Camus II, Kirk meets an old girlfriend who is really rather annoyed that she’s a woman.  And it leads to one weird episode!  Honestly, it must have been a real challenge for Shatner to play a … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Roger Pocock

It might have been nice for All Our Yesterday’s to be the last episode of classic Star Trek.  It’s a very well designed story.  There’s an A and B plot focusing on Kirk in a 17th Century time, accused of … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Savage Curtain

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Roger Pocock

I find myself frequently asking a very important question when watching Star Trek: did the writers intend for that to be funny?  This episode has one of my top 5 funniest moments when Kirk, determined to show that good is … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Cloud Minders

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Roger Pocock

This is one of those episodes that never seems to turn up in reruns.  It’s like that forgotten gem that even the networks overlook.  But make no mistake, like so many episodes of season three, this one is important.  I … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Way to Eden

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Good God if there is one Trek episode I can’t stand it’s The Way to Eden.  I’ve no doubt that has to do with the time of my birth.  I came into existence in 72, by which time the hippie … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Requiem for Methuselah

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Roger Pocock

“We put on a pretty poor show, didn’t we?”  You said it, Jim!  Requiem for Methuselah is another of those “significant” stories that really looks at the human condition and I am not sure if it’s a great analysis, or … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Lights of Zetar

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Roger Pocock

I’m torn as I come into the final batch of classic Trek episodes.  On the one hand, Season 3 has been a bit weak by comparison to the rest of the series.  On the other, there are some highlight moments.  … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: That Which Survives

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Roger Pocock

That Which Survives feels like a proper Star Trek romp with a strange planet, a mysterious woman, and a life or death struggle for the crew of the Enterprise.  The truth is, this isn’t a great episode but it’s not … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Roger Pocock

The Mark of Gideon is another of those significant episodes of Trek.  It’s not whether it’s good or bad, but that it is about something and gets the audience thinking.  The episode offers us a deeply satisfying mystery before hitting … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Roger Pocock

In 2019, I took the penultimate class needed to finish a long-overdue degree.   That class was simply called Pop Culture.  We had to look at a series, movie, book, music… something that could be examined under “four lenses.”  Within the … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Whom Gods Destroy

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Nana-nana-nana-nana-nana-nana-nana-nana-MAR-TA! Watching some 60’s TV that would air during my youth, I remember having a crush on two women from Batman.  Or should I say a woman and a girl?  Namely, Catwoman played by Julie Newmar (last seen in Star … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Roger Pocock

French actress France Nuyen… yes, her first name identifies her nationality… very convenient… plays the titular Elaan of Troyius in another one of Trek’s forays into sexism.  Yeah, yeah, I’m being unfair, I know, but for a show I remembered … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: The Empath

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Roger Pocock

I had been waiting to get to this episode because my memory of it was very positive but The Empath, like so many Trek episodes, does miss the mark more than I remembered.  It’s always a shame when that happens; … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Wink of an Eye

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Roger Pocock

Back in 1966, Star Trek was so new and unusual, most of the ideas were novel.  The stories were interesting and strange and often quite deep.  Creating new and compelling ideas must have been so much fun for the writers.  … Continue reading →

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