EARLY ACCESS - First Time Watching Star Trek The Original Series - S2E10 Journey to Babel | REACTION
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This was the second episode where Kirk should have given the conn to Uhura, the other being Catspaw, where they brought back a rather obscure engineer to stand in for Kirk. It was a 60s thing I guess.
Mark Chrisco
2022-09-02 17:21:28 +0000 UTCPlease don’t bring up plot points to movies that haven’t seen.
BURKE Wells
2022-09-01 01:09:42 +0000 UTCI like that little moment when McCoy asks about Spock as a child. Amanda glances at Spock, who gives a little nod. He doesn't mind giving Bones something to crow about mainly, I think, because he can drop the news that the "teddy bears" are actually big fanged beasts. Spock enjoys needling McCoy, too
tyranusfan
2022-08-31 21:12:52 +0000 UTCKirk assigning various people to take over the bridge in different and/or emergency circumstances is in line with how any good captain would do when cross-training his crew in various jobs. If you watch over the course of the series, you will notice various background actors often wear DIFFERENT COLOR uniforms from story to story. In the case of the filming of the series, they just wore whatever costume was given them on any given episode. But in the Star Trek Universe, and as we saw with Uhura in the first several episodes of Season One where she wore a gold COMMAND Division uniform [as she was in cross-training], people on the Big E (and presumably as in all of Starfleet) are cross-trained in a variety of jobs. This would mean there is much more to wearing different uniforms, or giving command to various lower-rank crewman from time to time, than meets the eye. Any Starfleet crewperson might wear the color uniform of the Division they are training for from day to day, or even other Departments. In the episode "The Alternative Factor," Charlene Masters was seen wearing a blue Sciences Division uniform while working with the dilithium crystal control system in Engineering. So seeing CHEKOV being given command when Kirk leaves the bridge at the end of 'Journey to Bable" makes sense when one considers that everyone on Kirk's ship is being cross-trained to be able to perform multiple jobs in any emergency situation. That carries over in big ways in the new show "ST: Strange New Worlds" as Capt. Pike (played by Anson Mount) does the same thing with his crew, several years before Kirk takes command of the ship.
Rhett Coates
2022-08-31 19:37:05 +0000 UTCJerry Maren, the actor portraying the copper-skinned alien who was seen getting a drink in the banquet scene (and guestering to his fellow to hold off putting any more colored ice cubes into the glass), was one of The Lollipop Guild munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz" (filmed in 1939).
Rhett Coates
2022-08-31 18:36:54 +0000 UTCOK, now that you've seen THIS specific episode, I'll remind you guys what I posted after you watched "Metamorphosis" - that when you watched another [specific] Season 2 episode of TOS, that I would send out a post about Elinor Donahue's Hollywood trivia as applies to Star Trek. She was a daughter on "Father Knows Best" from 1954 to 1960, and her mother was portrayed by Spock's mother from TOS: actress Jane Wyatt. Beyond that, Jane Wyatt also reprised her role as Spock's mother, Amanda, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the 4th 'Trek movie - "the one with the whales"). Amanda was seen in The Animated Series episode "Yesteryear," but was voiced by Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel in TOS), although Sarek, in "Yesteryear," was in fact voiced by Mark Lenard who portrayed Sarek in TOS, three of the 'Trek movies, and TWO episodes of The Next Generation. Spock's parents are also featured in Seasons One and Two of "Star Trek: Discovery," and are played by other actors.
Rhett Coates
2022-08-31 18:20:35 +0000 UTC
