"Let's tell stories."

At the time the actor was considered a 'get' and was expected to go places, but he never broke out of the tv series guest of the week/ b movie roles. He's quite good here, though.

I think she tends to get forgotten since she appeared in all of seven episodes, or far fewer than either sulu or chekhov. You might be thinking of eddie paskey who played lt. leslie in sixty frickin' episodes. I had no idea it was one-quarter that number. So, more than eight times as many appearances as rand. That's…

There probably ended up being about a dozen on TOS.

In Man Trap the character is also in the process of killing when Kirk shoots it, so there's that.

Right? I've never understood why they didn't just introduce an unobtrusive tear in the suit instead of asking us to believe someone highly trained would do something so obviously idiotic.

I agree, and it's remarkable how much Shatner used quiet and how often he underplayed in especially season one. Apparently, so I've heard, he was panicked by Nimoy's extraordinary popularity and by a painful divorce into some of his later histrionics. Even in season one when the acting gets physical he tends to overdo…

"The psychological commentary of "Time" isn't exactly what you'd call subtle (why don't we have "secret me" disease?)…"

Whereas "Time" was about the whole crew succumbing to their basest desires,

Then it can't be an SNL skit.

AND he looks to be about forty years old. The episode in large has some good points and more promising points, but the tease is a complete disaster.

I'd (thought I had) watched them all in syndication probably half a dozen times as a kid when suddenly this completely virgin teaser played. I was excited as all get out, but unfortunately the episode that followed was Is There in Truth No Beauty?

Like around 15-20 episodes similar in quality, Friday's Child is an iteration or two away from being an above average entry. There's enough there to be genuinely interesting: Klingons above and below; a new and militaristic culture; a pregnant woman played by no less than Julie Newmar; a script that in places works…

Worth noting: the editing in the teaser to Friday's Child is grotesquely bad. I don't think I've ever seen a stretch that poor on television. And the costumes (horsetails? and I swear one guy is wearing a pink unitard with a purple boa) are deranged. The show suffered badly whenever William Theiss was allowed to…

Zack self-indulges in the usual (and lazy) misreading of Turnabout Intruder. The first we hear it said,.by Lester, that a woman may not command a starship, Kirk agrees it's unfair. At the close Kirk's "if only…" is easy to read as, "if only she'd been able to accept an unfair situation without it letting it drive her…

Even for left field, that's … left field. But hey, I'm here to help.

I think you're talking 25 years ago, though. No? Your post got me looking at JG's imdb page, and I don't think I had realized how… peculiar his choices were after The Fly. He was about 35 then, and even though a double was used in that film's gymnastic scenes Goldblum was still cut enough to probably play Wolverine…

Sorta cross-posting from another thread, on the off chance of a reply:

"and we here in stage 3 owe our ability to be clever and subtle in our moralizing to our rather braver forebears in stage 2."

I've never heard an adequate explanation for why TOS and TNG are compared directly. It's surely clear the latter is aimed squarely at teens, the former at adults. A lot of the squabbling over which is 'better' seems to proceed in ignorance of that. I didn't get TNG, either, until I realized and accepted it was written…