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Synopses
Where No Man Has Gone Before
While exploring the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier that gives two crewmen godlike powers. Godlike powers seem to include immunity to phaser fire, but vulnerability to large rocks.
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The Enterprise crew is intoxicated by an inhibition-stripping contagion that causes Sulu's shirt to disintegrate. Kirk gets jealous and rips his own shirt. Scotty can't change the laws of physics, but accidentally invents time travel anyway.
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The godlike powers plot was really not that different from the previous episode (Charlie X) and left me a bit bored. Parts of it were completely inexplicable, and the rest was just cheesy.
Seeing everyone lose their inhibitions was fun, but even that episode had its fair doses of "seriously?" Like when they have to give Kirk a shot, so they rip his shirt apart. And after traveling back in time three days, they basically say "Well, that was interesting. Some day, we may try it again." Just stuffed that little trick in their back pockets for a rainy day, I guess. It felt all wrong.
I'm starting to get this feeling of "okay, let's just get this over with" in season 1. To be fair, some of it's cheesy because it's fully 50 years old. Some things I think of as cheesy now were probably new and interesting at the time, and have now been copied to death. But I think some of this cheese is why I had a negative impression of the original series to begin with. Here's hoping it gets better.
I have similar feelings about the first season of TNG actually. I think in part because they were trying to emulate the tone of TOS. I usually don't watch any of those now (except for the episode with Lt. Yar and that whole thing), because there's a part of me that just screams "Get on with it!" and I can't ignore that.
ReplyDeleteI totally get what you mean. The first season of TNG does feel a lot like TOS. Especially "Code of Honor" (involving what basically amounts to space Africa) and "Angel One" (involving a planet run by women *gasp*).
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