The Inner Light was one of the best of the series.
Last year I saw a cable special on a Trek paraphanelia auction being sold off. One of the items was Picard's flute from this episode. I think it sold for something around $35,000 (and no, I'm not adding zero's by accident).
btw...the flute has absolutely NO functional value...just a prop.
I guess I'm the purist. I liked the original TV show. The original Movies were just barely ok. Some MUCH worse then others but...
Star Trek the next Reguritation was the best of the spin offs but mostly was rather boring. I did enjoy Worf and the spin they put on his character.
I think the people who did ALL the post Star Trek stuff really should have at least watched the original show (or studied it better)
The last movie? Sheesh.... It could have been truly good but it became another Star Wars lets blow up bigger things movie craptecular. How about a writer with a plot?
In the pilot episode, the leader was Jeffery Hunter and the second in command was played by Roddenberry's wife in a pantsuit. By the time the network gave the project the green light, Hunter had died of a brain hemorrhage, Roddenberry's wife was demoted to Nurse Chapel and all the female crew wore cocktail waitress outfits. So the political correctness you spotted in StarTrek the Next Generation was a return to Roddenberry's original vision. During the first run there was a writer's strike in Hollywood, so the network hired Canadian scabs who knew nothing about sci-fi writing and you got those crappy episodes like the return to Nazi Germany, the shootout at the OK corral and such because the writers didn't understand sci-fi. So you had a world in which Kirk and Spock had an initmate knowledge of Wyatt Earp's career but though we won the Vietnam War.
In the Next Generation you get interesting things like Shakespeare performed in the "original Klingon."
As originally written, Spock was all logic (the cerebral man), McCoy all emotion (the visceral man) and Kirk united the two (the cordial man-- the one with the heart that unites the intellectual and physical aspects-- this is a very medieval psychology. I never though Star Trek was particularly good either for science or fiction, but I guess in those days things like the Matrix weren't being done.
Back in the 60's there was not any Sci-fi and we ate it up, looking back at it today its kind of cheese but then it was all we had. Today the writing is much better, better special effects, and we get things like Avatar. So don't judge it to harshly, it was the best out there at that time its because of that we have what we have today.
Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:52 am
Back in the 60's there was not any Sci-fi and we ate it up, looking back at it today its kind of cheese but then it was all we had. Today the writing is much better, better special effects, and we get things like Avatar. So don't judge it to harshly, it was the best out there at that time its because of that we have what we have today.
River
But, here (60's) on Prime Time TV was the Black lady, the Asian, the Russky, the outside observer and regular white folk. Pretty radical for that time but it was never the subject but rather just the way it was. There was the underlying morality message as in most Fantasy / SciFi.
Moi
I miss the green blood and pale complexion of the Vulcans
