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Sometimes it just is the right thing to do.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I've bought MP3 players for $12. There's really no excuse for not having one I had a tape player when I was 5 or 6...
And so it continues. My 5-year-old son has a 40GB MP3 player. I can only assume that the next step up is when he needs a phone and iPhone-equivalents are dirt cheap too.
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What was the topic again? Oh...
Rather than picking specific episodes, I'd pick important themes and work backwards from that:
* Serious Kirk/Spock/McCoy episode * Classic Klingons * Classic Romulans * 1960's social commentary * High-concept SF * Lowbrow humor * Energy beings * Kirk-outwits-computer-with-logic * Time travel/Alternate universes
Skimming the episode list, I'd pick from these:
* Serious: Enemy Within, Amok Time, Paradise Syndrome, Galileo Seven * Klingons: Day of the Dove, Errand of Mercy * Romulans: Balance of Terror, Enterprise Incident * 1960's: City..., Let That Be..., Omega Glory, Private Little War, Patterns of Force, The Cloud Minders, The Way to Eden * High-concept: The Cage, WNMHGB, Metamorphosis * Lowbrow: Mudd's Women, Catspaw, I, Mudd, Trouble With Tribbles, Spectre of the Gun, Piece of the Action, Shore Leave * Energy beings: Charlie X, Who Mourns..., * Computer: The Changeling, The Apple, Ultimate Computer * TT/AU: Assignment: Earth, Return to Tomorrow, Mirror, Mirror, All Our Yesterdays
However... I'd reserve at least 3 of the 10 slots for "others", as to focus on these extremes misses the bulk of Star Trek. Something like Dagger of the Mind, Corbomite Maneuver, Journey to Babel or The Naked Time.
So pick specialty episodes that hit more than one topic - e.g. "Day of the Dove" lets you cross of Klingons and Energy Beings.
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Yeah, Mirror,Mirror is deffinately one for the list. And I was reffering to the shotgun. THe Remington, as opposed to the Winchester, or the Sears & Roebuck.
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I think Squire of Gothos is a good energy being one - then she'll get that Futurama episode's joke
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: then she'll get that Futurama episode's joke
Wow, okay, how many TOS episodes/films do you need to see to *really* get "Where No Fan..." ?
* "The Menagerie" (court marshal/witness chair) * "City on the Edge of Forever" (the Guardian) * "Spectre of the Gun" (fight in the old west) * "Day of the Dove" (glowy energy being make people fight!) * "Arena" (making stuff out of things; Vasquez Rocks) * Star Trek II ("Bill, you are, and always shall be, my friend. But I just signed a six-month lease...") * Star Trek IV ("Nu-cle-ar wessels") * Star Trek V (Uhura's fan dance) * "Squire of Gothos" (spoiled energy being) * "Time Trap" (combine ships to escape)
(You also need "The Savage Curtain" to understand "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch" - Evil Lincoln, raaaaaarrrrrrr!!!!)
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Well, unless you've been going around referring to him as "Mr. Wilkes-Booth", which would make people think you are crazy.
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