Uhura’s absence doesn’t even make the Top 5, but it’s still weird as hell to see some white blonde lady at her station. A Cult of Space Hippies is painful, and it’s painful for a lot of reasons. Also, I’ve learned that an early rejected draft of this episode introduced Bones’s daughter, Joanna, a character I’ve only ever come across in Alternate Original Series fanfic, so that’s kind of neat. On the other hand, whew, The Enterprise vs. On the upside, I’ve seen GIFs from this episode for years now and am delighted to finally have an explanation for the unlikely jam session seen above. Line of the Episode: “I am close to experiencing an unaccustomed emotion.”Ĭhrist, it’s all downhill from here, isn’t it? Rayna deserves fix-it fanfic immediately. Hell, even a handful of extras in Sickbay would do.) Then we’ve got Rayna’s death, which is infuriating: it’s more of TOS’s logic bomb nonsense, but with the added insult of equating romantic love with humanity, which, gah. And then Spock just up and psychically assaults his BFF? Like with good intentions, sure, but still-in the wise words of Jake Peralta-cool motive, still murder. That’s the kind of plot clock that should give this episode some tension, but totally doesn’t because Kirk is too busy giving laughable speeches about love to remember his people are dying. (It would also help if we saw any of our regulars sick. Kirk’s acting like he’s been in love with Rayna for the better part of a decade it’s actually been less than four hours, which we know because anything more than that, and everyone on the Enterprise would be dead. look, insta-love is nothing new for Trek, but this is especially egregious. Did humanity even accomplish anything, or was it all just this one motherfucker? Then we’ve got the love story, which. I’ve never been very into historical retcon tropes like Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, and this one is particularly ridiculous, cause like, come on, Flint is ALL these guys? This is absurd. (Also, his outfit is hilarious, as all TOS outfits are.) Otherwise. I really don’t have anything positive to say here except that it’s kinda cool to see James Daly as Flint, I guess, because he’s Tim and Tyne Daly’s father. He falls asleep, wishing he could forget, and Spock (after a brief discussion with Bones, who also wishes Jim could forget-but nevertheless takes the time to needle Spock about his inability to love because that’s Bones for you) unilaterally decides to mind meld with a sleeping Kirk and steal his memories of Rayna away. Holy unethical bullshit, Batman! (Or, as Spock puts it: “The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her.” FFS.) Flint lets them go, I guess, and everyone on the Enterprise is cured, although Kirk is too busy moping about the 90th love of his life to give a shit. Unfortunately, trying to A) adjust to these newfound emotions, and B) choose between two men she loves equally is too much for Rayna’s poor female robot brain, and she dies. (Frankly, she doesn’t seem that into Kirk, either, and who can blame her? Even for TOS, their love story is absurdly paced here.)įlint briefly miniaturizes the Enterprise and plans to kill our OT3, but that angers Rayna, who discovers her true nature and has a lovely moment of self-empowerment, realizing she makes her own choices and no one can tell her what to do. Flint has been trying to create himself the perfect woman and has been using Kirk to “wake up” Rayna’s emotions, since she’s pretty non-responsive to Flint’s kisses. Turns out, Flint actually is da Vinci and Brahms (I was afraid of this), as well as Methuselah, Merlin, Solomon, Alexander the Great, Lazarus of Bethany, and probably a bunch of other people, too. Also, he’s clearly jealous of Kirk and Rayna while simultaneously pushing them together. Flint is shifty as hell: he has unknown da Vinci paintings and Brahms’ compositions that seem to be the real deal, but were made way too recently. Holy shit, only six episodes to go! SIX EPISODES LEFT, PEOPLE.Ī fatal epidemic is raging on the Enterprise, so our Holy OT3 beam down to this zero-pop planet to find the cure-only to run into Flint, an all-powerful old bastard who eventually invites them home to meet his super smart adopted daughter, Rayna.
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