EARLY ACCESS - Watching Star Trek's Most Powerful Episode on Class Inequality (S3E21)
Added 2023-04-21 14:00:05 +0000 UTCOur YouTube edited reaction to The Cloud Minders will be posted on Monday, but you can watch it right now!
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Here's one for your 90-minute movie file -- The Questor Tapes -- 92 minutes -- screenplay by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon and novelization by D. C. Fontana. It stars Majel Barrett and Walter Koenig. It came out after Gene L. Coon died. I've never seen it, so I don't know what you could expect.
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2023-04-21 18:44:29 +0000 UTCHere's an interesting list I just found of 147 Star Trek actresses, mostly from the original series. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls041672425/?sort=list_order,asc&mode=detail&page=1
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2023-04-21 17:28:55 +0000 UTCAh, the 70's! The golden age of Star Trek fandom! Or so we thought back then. The Star Trek Welcommittee! The clubs! The conventions! The fanzines! Starlog! Phil Foglio! The Blooper Reel! But wait! What's this Star Wars thing all about? Hmmm . . .
Rob
2023-04-21 15:58:02 +0000 UTCI'm getting sad that you're approaching the end of the series. Seriously, there could be tears.
Rob
2023-04-21 15:55:52 +0000 UTCThis episode really resonated with me when I saw it in 69. I grew up in beautiful Canmore Alberta, Canada in the Rocky Mountains. It is now a very expensive mountain resort, so expensive that only two of my classmates can afford to still live there, and only because they inherited family homes. But, when this episode came out, it was still a coal mining town. My classmates Dad’s worked the mines and it was a brutal job. I don’t know how they did it. So much black lung, so many accidents. My best friend’s Dad had his back broken by a rock fall. They lived in Company houses that were old and because they were so close to the mine, covered in coal dust. Now, there is a different class struggle there. Many non-residents have homes, really mansions, that are vacation homes, and only occupied a few weeks per year. The high ridge on Lady MacDonald Mountain, where we used to run our horses and where people climbed up to picnic in the summertime and enjoy the spectacular views, is now a closed gated community. I suppose they call that progress. I can understand people wanting to live there. It is absolutely gorgeous. Look up a photo of Three Sisters Mountain in Canmore and it’s easy to understand why so many choose to live there. It is spectacular.
Diane Lynn
2023-04-21 15:39:40 +0000 UTCI keep thinking that the episode title has the word Miners, not Minders. The James Blish novelization of the episode is even titled The Cloud Miners. The actor Jeff Corey who played Plasus was one of Leonard Nimoy's early acting coaches. I think Nimoy might have sort of gotten him the job for this episode, but perhaps I am wrong about that. Corey has over 200 acting credits even though he was blacklisted in the 1950s. He seemed to appear in just about every television show of the period at least once. I was thinking about this episode once as I am from Missouri which has the world's largest concentration of galena or lead sulfide in the world, and lead exposure causes brain damage and even death. Former professional football player Fred Williamson, still alive at age 85, played one of the miners. He has many directing and acting credits and apparently has black belts in Kenpō, Shotokan karate, and taekwondo. The miners' goggles would actually reappear in one of the Star Trek movies. If you are looking for something to watch between the animated series and the movies, there is a youtube channel called 70s Trek which has over 70 episodes of Star Trek trivia and events just from the 1970s. This could give you some hints. There is all sort of weird stuff to find. I see a 1975 interview of William Shatner with Geraldo Rivera. I think there is a lot of stuff like that out there.
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2023-04-21 15:04:49 +0000 UTC
