Star Trek Strange New Worlds — Episode 5 — Spock Amok — A Review

21st October, 2022.

Right, than … it’s Friday.

And … ?

I’ll be brutally frank, I’m looking forward to fish and chips.

It’s Friday: and why we’re supposed to eat them?

I couldn’t tell you.

Just that it’s something I’ve done for some time.

Something else I’ve been doing … ?

Is watching TV.

The past few weeks has seen me watching the first series of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.   Then posting my review, the following night.

I’ll be doing that with the fifth episode of the series: Spock Amok.

Given most Star Trek fans will be able to tell you exactly when the LAST time the word ‘Amok’ turned up in a Star Trek title?

I’m betting I know where it’s (partially) going to be set.

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Star Trek Discovery — Series 2 Episode 1: Brother — A Review

18th January, 2019.

Yes … it’s A Friday night … 

Yes: I’m unemployed.

And yes … that means not going out, frankly!

What can I tell you?

Apart from the fact I managed to keep myself occupied.

With some good old fashioned TV.

Well … 

New fashioned … 

OK … 

I’ve managed To catch the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season.

Brother?

Is quite a big opening.

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Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country. Guess Who’s Coming to DINNER

20-8-2011

You know, I’ve GOT to admit, I couldn’t RESIST that title … !

Well, you can’t, can you … ?

Not when you consider that that Lieutenant Commander Chekov’s most notorious line in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country actually has a bit of a story too it.

From the little I’ve picked up over the years … ?

Originally the line had been scripted for Nichelle Nichol’s Uhura.

And was reassigned, after Nichols gently raised objections.

Can’t say I blame her, in a way: the line matches the title of the 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,  generally revered amongst Afro-Americans for its positive take on mixed raced marriage …

And for being released in the year that laws against mixed-race marriages were finally made illegal in the US.

I don’t think I can blame her somehow.

Especially as, from what I can recall from reading her biography, many years ago … ?

She was thinking of leaving the cast of the show, at the end of the second series of the show: the only person who stopped her … ?

Was Reverend Martin Luther King, who told her she was the only black woman in an otherwise all-white cast: and what’s more, playing an character who could easily be replaced by a white one.

Well, I was impressed, if no-one else was …

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