What is annoying though is that whoever is scheduling the episodes has not bothered to check the original transmission schedule as they are not in sequence.
However, it's great to see this classic series again, like lots of kids it inspired me to read lots of science fiction and was ground-breaking television. It's amazing the things you forget, like how bad the dodgy sets really were and the "aliens" I have just watched an episode "The Man Trap" and in one scene a plant reacts aggressively to a creature masquerading as a Star Fleet crewman. Well I say plant, it's quite clear from the shot that it is somebody's hand in a fancy glove pretending to be a plant - wonderful stuff.
 | The episode also featured Yeoman Janice Rand, who I now remember was one of the first women I ever took a keen interest in. Not in the original '67 when it was first broadcast (I was only 3), but in the late 70's when I discovered Star Trek as a hormonal teenager. She actually appeared in the later films too, the last one being Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, when she was communications officer on Captain Sulu's ship, the Excelsior. |
I also found it interesting, watching the early episodes how underdeveloped the characters were, especially Spock. In another episode, "Charlie X", there is a scene in the precursor to ST:TNG's Ten Forward, "Recreation Room 6" Spock is sitting playing some sort of Vulcan guitar and is clearly seen smiling as Lt. Uhuru makes up a song and sings along. Spock smiling?? Surely there is some mistake, not the logical, unemotional Vulcan.
I can't wait to see the rest of the series...
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