Star Trek: The Next Generation. 1,511,451 likes · 15,637 talking about this. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Facebook page and visit us at www.StarTrek.com! Captain’s log. 1968 saw Star Trek at a crossroads: unpopular enough to justify being cancelled, but popular enough to prompt a massive letter-writing campaign. The third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation commenced airing in broadcast syndication in the United States on.
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: Third Season Overview. Star Trek Third Season. Original air dates: October 1. June 1. 96. 9Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry.
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Producer: Fred Freiberger. Captain’s log. 1. Star Trek at a crossroads: unpopular enough to justify being cancelled, but popular enough to prompt a massive letter- writing campaign begging NBC to keep it on the air. It’s not entirely clear how much of NBC’s decision to renew was actually affected by the flood of letters—spearheaded by the mighty Bjo Trimble—but it certainly didn’t hurt in showing the network that there was an audience.
In Canada Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on Bell Media’s CTV and the Space Channel on the same night and time as CBS in the U.S.
Unfortunately, most of the people who made the show what it was were no longer on staff, though all of them continued to contribute to the show. The three previous show- runners, Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, and John Meredyth Lucas, were all out, replaced by Fred Freiberger. Fontana was no longer story editor, and many of her contributions to the season were sufficiently heavily rewritten against her wishes that she went with a pseudonym. In addition, Freiberger’s mandate from the network was obviously to save money wherever possible. There’s a feeling of emptiness about the Enterprise in this season, as even the number of extras wandering the corridors was reduced.
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In the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, the Federation space station Deep Space Nine guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy. Who are the female heroes of Star Trek? From freedom fighters to science nerds, they all made their mark. Star Trek: Discovery Theme; August 2, 2017. According to TrekMovie.com the theme for Star Trek: Discovery was previewed at the Summer 2017 Television Critics. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to DS9) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years.
In fact, only five other episodes got a 6 or higher. Fewest comments (as of this writing): “Wink of an Eye” and “Whom Gods Destroy,” which both have 4. Again, you guys rock. Favorite Can’t we just reverse the polarity?
From “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”: Somehow Marvick manages to send the Enterprise so far away that they have no reference points for navigation—except in intergalactic space, there are tons of reference points, to wit, all the galaxies that you’re sitting in between. If you just need to get back to your own galaxy, you can just look for it and head toward it. It’s not like there’s anything in the way to block your view.
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From “The Paradise Syndrome”: Spock manages to decipher the obelisk all by himself, despite also being in charge of the ship. Because this ship with 4. Favorite I’m a doctor not an escalator. From “The Enterprise Incident”: Mc. Coy is magnificently snotty throughout the episode, from “I don’t make house calls” to “Do you want to go through life looking like your first officer?”Favorite Ahead warp one, aye. From “Turnabout Intruder”: Sulu has a crowning moment of awesome in this episode when he and Chekov are discussing what to do in light of “Kirk” declaring a death sentence on Spock, Mc. Coy, and Scotty. When Chekov questions how they can fight the captain with security on his side, Sulu speaks with impressive verve and intent: “I’ll fight them every way and any way I can.” Favorite Hailing frequencies open.
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From “Elaan of Troyius”: Uhura has lots of pretty things in her quarters. Elaan throws a lot of them against a wall, and also throws a knife at one of her paintings. From “The Way to Eden”: Scotty is disapproving of the space hippies from jump, bitching and moaning about these kids today with their music and their hair, and pretty much doing every stereotypical old- fart bit short of shaking his fist at them and telling them to get off his lawn. His plaintive query as to why being young means being irresponsible is met with an amused rejoinder by Kirk, reminding him that he did some crazy stuff when he was young, and didn’t Scotty, also? From “The Tholian Web”: Walter Koenig gets to do what he does best: scream. He screams on the bridge and he screams in sickbay. Favorite Go put on a red shirt.
From “And the Children Shall Lead”: Kirk orders two security guards beamed down to the planet, but they’re in interstellar space, so they’re beamed nowhere and killed. Kirk barely even notices, more grumpy about the fact that his ship isn’t where it should be than the fact that two of his crew are dead. And he seems to have totally forgotten that there are two guys on Triacus, whom he doesn’t even go back for or make any attempt to contact in the end. Favorite No sex, please, we’re Starfleet: From “Turnabout Intruder”: Lester claims that she and Kirk broke up because “Your world of starship captains doesn’t admit women.” This has often been interpreted to mean that the Starfleet of the 2. Madge Sinclair’s Saratoga captain in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), which probably sounded perfectly reasonable in a 1.
TV show in which the women all wore miniskirts, but which future iterations will try to either justify or ignore, but which mostly can be dismissed as the ravings of a person who was not entirely sane. From “Wink of an Eye”: “You’re married to your career, and you never look at another woman.”“Well, if she’s pretty enough, I’ll look.”Deela being only half right about Kirk and Kirk being overly modest. Favorite Welcome aboard. Some powerhouse guests in this season, including some very impressive women: France Nuyen (“Elaan of Troyius”), Sabrina Scharf (“The Paradise Syndrome”), Marj Dusay (“Spock’s Brain”), Diana Muldaur (“Is There In Truth No Beauty?”), Kathryn Hays (“The Empath”), Barbara Babcock (“The Tholian Web,” “Plato’s Stepchildren”), Katherine Woodville (“For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky”), Susan Howard (“Day of the Dove”), Kathie Browne (“Wink of an Eye”), Lee Meriwether (“That Which Survives”), Yvonne Craig (“Whom Gods Destroy”), Sharon Acker (“The Mark of Gideon”), Charlene Polite (“The Cloud Minders”), Mary- Linda Rapelye (“The Way to Eden”), and Mariette Hartley (“All Our Yesterdays”). On the male side, we’ve got Jack Donner (“The Enterprise Incident”), Michael Dunn (“Plato’s Stepchildren”), Frank Gorshin and Lou Antonio (“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”), Steve Ihnat and Keye Luke (“Whom Gods Destroy”), David Hurst (“The Mark of Gideon”), Skip Homeier, Charles Napier, and Victor Brandt (“The Way to Eden”), Lee Bergere and Barry Atwater (“The Savage Curtain”), and Ian Wolfe (“All Our Yesterdays”). Then we’ve got the kids, who did a good job despite an awful script in “And the Children Shall Lead”: Craig Hundley, Pamelyn Ferdin, Caesar Belli, Brian Tochi, and especially Mark Robert Brown. There are two actual Robert Knepper moments (a rarity for the TOS Rewatch) in Fred Williamson in “The Cloud Minders” and Johnny Haymer in “All Our Yesterdays.”There’s the usual recurring regulars, with James Doohan not only playing Scotty but also doing a ton of voiceover work, plus George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, John Winston, and Booker Bradshaw.
But the major awesome guest this season has to be Michael Ansara, magnificently creating the role of Kang in “Day of the Dove.” Besides appearing in tons of tie- in fiction over the past five decades, Kang is the only character who originally appeared in the original series who later appeared on two spinoffs (DS9. Plenty appeared in one spinoff (Mc. Coy, Sarek, Spock, Scotty, and Kahless on TNG, Kor, Koloth, and Darvin on DS9, Sulu and Rand on Voyager, Cochrane, Surak, and Green on Enterprise), but Kang is the only one who did it twice. And deservedly so, as Kang is great.
Favorite Trivial matters: The one for “Day of the Dove.” Did I mention Kang is great? To boldly go. Might it have been even more well regarded when it took off in reruns if those daily strip syndication packages didn’t include “Spock’s Brain” and “Plato’s Stepchildren” and “And the Children Shall Lead” and “Turnabout Intruder” and all the other dross from this season? Not that the season is a total loss. For starters, in a show that generally succumbed to the worst sexist stereotypes of its era, the third season gives us an amazing collection of very strong and vibrant and fascinating female characters, particularly Miranda Jones, Mara, Vanna, Natira, and Zarabeth. A lot of that was also budgetary (particularly the Medusans), but it still succeeded in making the galaxy a more interesting place.
Plus, in Kang and the Romulan commander, we have two of Trek. Too many good ideas spoiled by piss- poor execution, too many romances- in- an- hour, only some of which are even remotely convincing, too many times believing that banging your head against a brick wall would be preferable to sitting through this garbage.
But perhaps the worst thing about this season, and the main reason why I postulate the notion that the parallel timeline in which the show was cancelled after “Assignment: Earth” might be a better one for all concerned, is that the absolute worst excesses of William Shatner are on display here. The actor’s outsized reputation for overacting is primarily borne of performances in this season, particularly “The Paradise Syndrome,” “And the Children Shall Lead,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “The Cloud Minders,” and “Turnabout Intruder” (though there, at least, it was on purpose).
And so the live- action series ends with a whimper. On to the animated adventures. De. Candido will be a guest at Philcon 2. Cherry Hill, New Jersey, along with C.
J. Cherryh, Dave Seeley, L. E. Modesitt Jr., and many more. He’ll be doing a bit of programming and also hanging out at the e. Spec Books table. His schedule can be found here.
Seven of Nine, best moments.