Last night's Star Trek TOS was a hot mess. It was the one where Kirk and some hot chick are alone on the Enterprise, free to copulate with abandon, the whole thing being a contrivance by her desperate civilization to cultivate a deadly virus to decrease their overpopulation.
And yet I watched it to the end, never bored, unlike the Phillies game which I bagged on earlier in the evening, maybe somewhere around the sixth inning. God I detest T-Smacked Ass.
Anyway, the whole idea that the overpopulated civilization needed to draw blood from Kirk's arm to get the virus was just plan weird and rendered moot everything that happened afterwards.
Me? If I were in charge of the script, I'd have had Kirk bang the living crap out of the space chick and give her herpes or something.
That'd fix their interplanetary kidnapping wagons!!!
I became a fan of Star Trek when I was in high school and it was in reruns. I wouldn't see Forbidden Planet for another 30 years or so. When I did, I was all like "OMG!!! STAR TREK RIPPED THIS OFF NOTE FOR NOTE!!!"
For people who saw Forbidden Planet first, Star Trek must have been perceived very differently, I should imagine.
When I was a little kid, I would play my father's old records when I was all alone. When I was maybe 6 or 7 or so I became absolutely obsessed with Ferrante & Teicher's LP "Soundproof!" and I must have played it a couple of thousand times, dancing to it like a crazy person, pounding along on the sofa cushions with my fists as if they were a percussion instrument, singing along with the instrumental melodies with strange inarticulate vocalizings.
On the LP jacket was a still photograph taken from the movie Forbidden Planet.
While watching FP I kept expecting Lesley Nielsen to say something like "It's the little room in the front of the space ship, but that's not important now", or "Don't call me surely!". But he never did.
I'd always heard that Harlin Ellison accused Roddenberry of ripping of a short story of his. Oops, I see it was about changing the script:
"[Harlan] Ellison has repeatedly criticized how Star Trek creator and producer Gene Roddenberry (and others) rewrote his original script for the 1967 episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". Ellison's original work included a subplot involving drug dealing aboard the Enterprise, and other elements that Roddenberry rejected. Despite his objections, Ellison kept his own name on the shooting script instead of using "Cordwainer Bird" to indicate displeasure."
@Deborah: There's a Brian Wilson biopic slated for release later this year called Love and Mercy. There will probably be a mini-revival of all his stuff.
The film will explore his various mental breakdowns, road bumps, and recovery. The song Hang On To Your Ego from "Pet Sounds" foreshadowed a lot of that, IMO.
I don't think he did, but he did hang around with a lot of "out there" types in SoCal in the early '60s, and he listened to what they were putting down.
He claims his mother used the phrase "good vibrations", so there is that.
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Last night's Star Trek TOS was a hot mess. It was the one where Kirk and some hot chick are alone on the Enterprise, free to copulate with abandon, the whole thing being a contrivance by her desperate civilization to cultivate a deadly virus to decrease their overpopulation.
And yet I watched it to the end, never bored, unlike the Phillies game which I bagged on earlier in the evening, maybe somewhere around the sixth inning. God I detest T-Smacked Ass.
Anyway, the whole idea that the overpopulated civilization needed to draw blood from Kirk's arm to get the virus was just plan weird and rendered moot everything that happened afterwards.
Me? If I were in charge of the script, I'd have had Kirk bang the living crap out of the space chick and give her herpes or something.
That'd fix their interplanetary kidnapping wagons!!!
Brian Wilson's 2010 take on that Gershwin piece: Summertime
I became a fan of Star Trek when I was in high school and it was in reruns. I wouldn't see Forbidden Planet for another 30 years or so. When I did, I was all like "OMG!!! STAR TREK RIPPED THIS OFF NOTE FOR NOTE!!!"
For people who saw Forbidden Planet first, Star Trek must have been perceived very differently, I should imagine.
When I was a little kid, I would play my father's old records when I was all alone. When I was maybe 6 or 7 or so I became absolutely obsessed with Ferrante & Teicher's LP "Soundproof!" and I must have played it a couple of thousand times, dancing to it like a crazy person, pounding along on the sofa cushions with my fists as if they were a percussion instrument, singing along with the instrumental melodies with strange inarticulate vocalizings.
On the LP jacket was a still photograph taken from the movie Forbidden Planet.
Coincidence?
I don't think so.
While watching FP I kept expecting Lesley Nielsen to say something like "It's the little room in the front of the space ship, but that's not important now", or "Don't call me surely!". But he never did.
"I don't think so."
Neither do I.
I'd always heard that Harlin Ellison accused Roddenberry of ripping of a short story of his. Oops, I see it was about changing the script:
"[Harlan] Ellison has repeatedly criticized how Star Trek creator and producer Gene Roddenberry (and others) rewrote his original script for the 1967 episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". Ellison's original work included a subplot involving drug dealing aboard the Enterprise, and other elements that Roddenberry rejected. Despite his objections, Ellison kept his own name on the shooting script instead of using "Cordwainer Bird" to indicate displeasure."
Chick, I didn't know Brian Wilson did that sort of music now. Taking the Rod Stewart route, sort of.
@Deborah: There's a Brian Wilson biopic slated for release later this year called Love and Mercy. There will probably be a mini-revival of all his stuff.
The film will explore his various mental breakdowns, road bumps, and recovery. The song Hang On To Your Ego from "Pet Sounds" foreshadowed a lot of that, IMO.
He uses the phrase safety zone. Do you think he was the one to coin it?
I don't think he did, but he did hang around with a lot of "out there" types in SoCal in the early '60s, and he listened to what they were putting down.
He claims his mother used the phrase "good vibrations", so there is that.
I just thought safety zone wouldn't have been out that far back.
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