EARLY ACCESS - This Star Trek Wild Western Episode is a FEVER DREAM!
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I love the surreal set design that allowed them to be cheap and serve the story at the same time.
Trevacious
2023-03-01 01:31:02 +0000 UTCThere’s a moment in the Saloon, where Doctor McCoy is standing with a foot up on a stool and has a thumb hooked under his belt — it reminds me that he’s played a lot of villainous roles in Westerns. I haven’t seen any of them yet, but have meant to look them up sometime to watch Dee being a menace.
Trevacious
2023-03-01 01:28:37 +0000 UTCAdd the movie, “Tombstone” to your list, to get more familiar with the fight from the perspective of the Earps and Holiday.
Trevacious
2023-03-01 01:20:59 +0000 UTCI don’t think Star Trek the original series would exist in the form that it became without television Westerns which I guess peaked on television around 1959. There was still enough knowledge about stuntmen and willingness to do stunts during this time period. It seems like there were a bit too many fight scenes in Star Trek the original series, but I really miss this type of action from the future Star Trek series which were created 20 years or more later. I guess science fiction took a more pacifist tone in later years when it came to hand-to-hand fights, and syndicated Star Trek shows 20 or 30 years later did not have the money to pay professional stuntmen and their insurance.
Chtphr Rrr
2023-02-20 04:25:13 +0000 UTCWas this episode the origin of the narrative concept in drama known as "Chekhov's gun"? 🙃
Gaius Frakking Baltar
2023-02-20 02:52:38 +0000 UTCI really like this episode. I can see where it has a different feel for someone of your ages watching this compared to someone like me in my 70s. Old West lore was a big thing when I was growing up and virtually everyone knew about the Gunfight at the OK Corral, which this show mirrors. One thing which was a shock to me when I first saw it was the portrayal of the Earps. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday were big "heroes" in the 50s. There was even a successful Wyatt Earp TV show. Wyatt Earp could do no wrong. So, portraying the Earps as villains was a great twist.
John5193
2023-02-20 02:44:38 +0000 UTCI was never into westerns either, but I saw "The Searchers" in film class in college (featuring a young Jeffrey Hunter, aka, Captain Pike) which was pretty good; True Grit (both the original and the remake, but the John Wayne version is more enjoyable), and Rooster Cogburn, a sequel/spin off of True Grit, which I loved. John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn made a good screen pairing.
tyranusfan
2023-02-20 01:31:38 +0000 UTCI would say that you definitely need to watch the 1993 movie Tombstone (on the channel if possible). A lot of people love that movie just for Val Kilmer's performance. The longer Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid movie Wyatt Earp about the same event was released 6 months later in 1994, but it was not as well received. However, it could be worth watching later if you like Tombstone. This was the third time DeForest Kelley had acted in this scene as he had previously played "Ike Clanton in a 1955 episode of You Are There and Morgan Earp in the 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."
Chtphr Rrr
2023-02-20 01:04:07 +0000 UTCThis is not one I watch very often but its good. Plenty of character stuff and it is curious how it does not drag due to heavy dialogue. I think it is because the dialogue is not exposition but discussion on what they are going to do. I never thought about this one being an "Alex Poster" but yea it would be a good one. Season three is full of "let's go meet some aliens episodes" along with some "cultural commentary" episodes. You guys seem to like those so get ready for some stories that have a different flavor(for lack of a better word).
Ricky Johnson
2023-02-19 20:49:38 +0000 UTCI did say in a comment after Is There In Truth No Beauty? that it and Spectre of the Gun are a fever dream. Now you can see I wasn't kidding. You can easily find all kinds of information about the Gunfight at the OK Corral if you look. Sometimes you'll see this episode called The Last Gunfight, but that was because it was the title of the original script which was subsequently changed. Back in the day there was a series of book adaptations by James Blish with three of the TOS episodes per book. He apparently worked from earlier versions of the story and usually included several things that were ultimately cut from the script. He must have had a thing for silver-blonde women because a lot of the female characters are silver-blonde even if they definitely are not in the actual episode. The Blish adaptation of this one was also called The Last Gunfight. Some people still used that title. The Klingons are back in the next episode.
KatWithAttitude
2023-02-19 20:12:16 +0000 UTCHahahaha!
Silk
2023-02-19 19:31:53 +0000 UTC
