posted
Now an ameoba fetish!?! What would your paramecium girlfriend think if she heard such filth?
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
My paramecium girlfriend would think that's cilia. But I gotta think at the macrophage level about this - no point crying over broken platelets. There's no vacuole between my ears, y'hear? I ain't lysosoming! Besides, both paramecium and amoeba would understand, since I'm no phagocyte.
posted
That's viral thinking, son- you'll contaminate the whole dish with such perversion.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Explaining his frequent halucinations, no doubt.
Still, I guess it's to be expected- housing is so expected on Yuggoth nowadays.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Now, here's the thing I've never understood. Are amoebae actually flat in real life, or is the appearance just an effect of looking at them exclusively through microscopes? Although the effects here are still shinier, I think they fell seriously flat by preserving the fake-2D appearance of the amoeba.
-------------------- “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha
Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
Am I the only one who thinks this looks about as disappointing as the Tholian's unchanged appearance in last week's episode?
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Actually I think they tried to make it look more three-dimensional. But then again the design of this particular amoeba is such that I can not conceive of it having more volume.
Edit: I think that blue outline makes it look flat.
Registered: Feb 2005
| IP: Logged
posted
It was okay- nothing special- I think mainly because the ameoba was just rendered to occupy the same space/shots as the original and not make it radicaly new. It's be nice to see it move a bit though- this thing is yet another giant threat to whole solar-systems without FTL capability and another rush to risk the ship destroying it (this is before they knew it was about to reproduce).
Nice shuttlebay scene- they really got that down now.
Bad stuff- when the Enterprise first releases reverse thrust and plunges forward into the creature, they exactly reproduced the jerky "model on a string" look of the original and instead of surging forward at high speed, it kinda wobbles away from the camera's angle.
Yet another episode where McCoy is a TOTAL DICK. Seriously- Spock is going on what everyone agrees is a suicide mission and McCoy's all "Damn you! you cant let me share in this discovery, can you?!". I guess the idea was to show...er...McCoy's desire to die or some shit. He kinda recovers once Spock is recovered, but no one's shedding tears when they count Spock among the dead. I guess Spock saves Kirk's life snother dozen times prior to STII- earning him a moment's emotion when he gets killed saving the ship then. This episode it's all like "Note to Log: have Starfleet send another Vulcan- possible Vulcan shortage coming with loss of U.S.S. Intrepid."
The good- the episode is beautifully remastered and Nimoy's performance is really a winner in this episode. The loss of the Intrepid is a tad strange though- no emergency bouy with logs and such and you'd think the powerless ship would have been on the ameoba's prephery with all the "debris" Spock reported... Maybe Starfleet recovered the ship at some later date, or maybe she still floats lifeless in deep space, waiting for someone to be grossed out by a crew of 300 freeze-dried vulcans.
Would've been nice to have seen a TOS Intrepid model in Janeway's ready room or a plaque or something, but I guess she's not big on ship's nostalga.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Looking at some of the reviews at Cynic's Corner, she's also a traitor, war criminal, and all around incompetent officer. But that's another story...
Registered: Feb 2005
| IP: Logged
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
