tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72755927286750515182024-02-06T18:12:59.386-08:00The Warp ProjectThe Entire Star Trek Universe at High Speedhawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-71113310116113035792010-12-19T10:47:00.000-08:002010-12-19T10:49:14.616-08:00Foxtrot Comic Acknowledges the Situation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxtrot.com/comics-rss/2010-12-19-669a8da8.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 279px;" src="http://www.foxtrot.com/comics-rss/2010-12-19-669a8da8.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Source: <a href="http://www.foxtrot.com/2010/12/12192010/">http://www.foxtrot.com/2010/12/12192010/</a></span><br /></div>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-60368349259446102762010-12-14T16:34:00.000-08:002010-12-15T10:55:47.685-08:00Star Trek: TOS: By Any Other Name; or, how Kirk finds himself unsurprisingly playing D&D BDSM with sexy-sexy aliens<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Original Series: Episode 51: By Any Other Name</span><br /><br />We open on a cartoon planet with a purple sky. OKAY IT WASN'T REALLY A CARTOON. It just looked that way.<br /><br />The entire control team of the Enterprise beams to the astroturf planet where Spock discovers small metallic objects but no life forms. (It really was astroturf.) Then, a never before seen red dress crew member discovers two human forms approaching. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WOMAN IN THE RED DRESS, I WONDER??? The human forms meet the crew and demand our Captain Kirk hand over control of the Enterprise. Kirk, of course, ga-fahs, and refuses.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Predictable Moment: Kirk With the Sexy-Sexy Space Alien In His Arms<br /></span></div><br />Who are these mysterious ship-demanding strangers? We have, on the one hand, a woman in a turquoise full body suit that proves to be this episodes incredibly sexy and well made up feminine stranger. She is accompanied by man that, while handsome enough, proves his poor fashion choices through use of an orange full body jumpsuit. It's hard to take his demands for a starship seriously when he's tricked himself into thinking orange looks good with his overly pale outspace sun deprived white skin. But, right in the moment of our deepest doubt, he stuns our away team with the magical freeze ray button found about his waist. That's right, with his belt along he has the power to control our Captain Kirk, our beloved Spock, Doctor McCoy, and the two red shirted security officers that will clearly wind up dead later in the show. What are they to do?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">From this moment forward, the orange jumpsuit is in charge. </span><br /><br />In short order, we discover the two humanoids are of the Kelvin empire. Never heard of it? Neither has Kirk. The Kelvins hail all the way from our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, having traveled via multi-generational starship from their galaxy to ours in search of habitable planets. Though they look remarkably just like overly sexy, or jumpsuit wearing humans from earth, they are in fact <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> earthlings, and further do not even actually have humanoid bodies. They've simply transferred their essences into our shape for the sake of our-galaxy convenience. While our Kelvin dominators explain their situation to Kirk and the command crew, the Kelvin crew, that we had not yet seen, take control over the Enterprise. Egads! We've been tricked! There are not only two sexy-sexy Kelvins! There were others too and while distracted with the freeze ray our beloved Enterprise has been confiscated for Kelvin use. The Kelvin leader calmly and emotionlessly explains that they are a dominating force determined to conquer all residents of our galaxy. The Enterprise will be theirs.<br /><br />While dealing with the conversion process of the Enterprise, our away team is taken into custody. They are to be locked in an outspace cave as hostages to convince the rest of the crew to simply obey Kelvin orders. Locked in their frozen cave holding cell, the two red shirted security officers pace nervously, no doubt preparing for their red-shirt-wearing fate.<br /><br />In an effort to distract their guard, Spock undergoes a crazy mind-meld explosion trick causing the sexy-sexy guard to rush in, suffer hand-chop knock-out attack from Kirk, and then collapse with sexy convenience into Kirk's arms. Oh Kirk! You're masculinity is so wonderfully consistent. Our beloved hostages rush out of their hostage cell only to be immediately captured, and frozen again. As predicted, the two red shirts are taken aside to be killed as punishment for Kirk's commander misdeeds--he disobeyed the Kelvins. Thus, two essential elements of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> universe are fulfilled--the red shirts are killed, and Kirk is temporarily dominated.<br /><br />How can I claim Kirk's domination to be a necessary element of the Star Trek universe, you ask? (Notice: we all just accept that "wearing red shirt==death.") Central to Kirk's character is the expectation of ultimate superiority of any situation. However, the only means for such a definitive quality to be genuinely enacted is for such a figure to face what appearing to be over powering situations. It is through his over coming of circumstances it appeared could never be overcome that our captain is able to prove again and again that he is the ultimate hero--alone in his ability to triumph over anything. Thus, each episode must offer us some challenge that cannot be overcome. In the Kelvin's willingness to kill crew members when challenged, Kirk discovers his weakness and we see the inescapability of his situation. Even if Kirk happens to lose a crewman in almost every episode, most deaths are due to the simple dangers of space. Kirk is willing to face enormous risk, but his first worst fear is in a crewman dying because of his own error. Thus, the Kelvins appear to have won by constraining Kirk via his own allegiance to his crew, thereby exposing the very fact that ultimately the Kelvin's will have to be dominated by Kirk himself. Yay, Kirk! Metaphorical BDSM points all around!<br /><br />Interestingly, in death the red shirts are turned into geometric dice-like forms that we are told represent their essence. Horrified by the site of his security officers turned into D&D dice Kirk is subdued, and we must wait to discover what the Kelvin's weakness will be.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thumbnails.cbsig.net/CBS_Production_Entertainment/CBS_Production_Entertainment/1968/02/23/Classic/Star_Trek_-_The_Original_Series/Full_Episodes/Rebroadcast/593/42/CBS_STAR_TREK_050_IMAGE_CIAN.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 279px;" src="http://thumbnails.cbsig.net/CBS_Production_Entertainment/CBS_Production_Entertainment/1968/02/23/Classic/Star_Trek_-_The_Original_Series/Full_Episodes/Rebroadcast/593/42/CBS_STAR_TREK_050_IMAGE_CIAN.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Essence of Red Shirt Wearing Security Officers Turns Out To Be D&D Dice<br /></span></div><br />Returned again to the outer space cave holding cell, Spock <span style="font-style: italic;">again</span> works to distract the Kelvin guards. This time he puts himself into a Vulcan trance in which he appears to be dying. As a result, McCoy and Spock are beamed back aboard the Enterprise straight to sick bay. They arrive in sickbay and are left alone there to investigate potential Kelvin weaknesses from on board the ship. Still on the planet, Kirk is unable to reason with the Kelvin jumpsuit wearing leader, and is ultimately beamed back aboard the space ship while the Kelvins begin their return voyage (with Enterprise crew in tow) back to the Andromeda galaxy.<br /><br />Having gotten to the ship earlier, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty have prepared the only option available to them--explode the ship with the Kelvins and our beloved crew aboard. Will they do it? Will they destroy themselves and therefore stop the Kelvins from their mission? Will they kill themselves? WHAT WILL KIRK DO? OH MY GOD WHAT WILL HE DO?<br /><br />I'll tell you.<br /><br />In the moment of greatest crisis--approaching the energy barrier on the edge of our galaxy--Kirk decides to forego the suicide pact and instead leave the galaxy. Thanks to the Kevlins, we take our <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> travels further than ever experienced before. We pass the edge of our galaxy for the first time ever. What a moment in Sci-Fi history--leaving our own galaxy to travel between worlds. 300 space travel years in the distance we can see the Andromeda galaxy in all her beauty as we, aboard the Enterprise, travel in starless space.<br /><br />Reaching the space between galaxies, the Kelvins proceed to turn all non-essential crew members of the Enterprise crew into D&D dice. Will Kirk be stuck playing role games to continue his relationship with crewman like Chekov and Uhura? No! We discover that as long as these di are not crushed, the 'neutralized' crew members can later be restored to human form. So, again Kirk is forced to obey the Kelvin leader lest his crewman remain di forever.<br /><br />While the only non-neutralized crew members--those considered essential (Scotty, McCoy, Spock, Kirk)--struggle with their situation, one of the Kelvins is lured into tasting food. A simple moment, it would seem. But Kelvins have been living as mostly intellectual beings for millenia. Now in human form they are subject again to human sensation and human emotion. In the pleasures of food, then, we discover the Kelvin's one weakness. Kirk realizes his key to regaining control of the situation. Big Kelvins are vulnerable to food and drink. Pretty Kelvins are weak at the site of flowers and kisses. And dominating leader Kelvins want to control their women. It all makes so much sense! Kirk commands his three essential crew members to find ways to expose the Kelvins to their vulnerable feelings and desires. Scotty gets some Kelvins drunk. McCoy scares some others into thinking they have to have extensive medical treatment. Spock works on faux-counseling the Kelvin leader into recognizing his sexual interests in the sexy-sexy second in command, while also, incidentally, beating the Kelvin's ass at multi-level chess. And Kirk walks around seducing the sexy woman from the beginning of the episode just in time to cause jealousy on the part of the Kelvin leader. The Kelvins begin showing severe irritation, and the sexy Kelvin woman returns what she really wants is the attention of a powerful man.<br /><br />We thus find ourselves in the midst of one of the more simultaneously charming and offensive moments of Star Trek history--Kirk kisses the sexy Kelvin again and again and again and again... The Kelvin commander walks in just in time to find Kirk making out with the Kelvin sexy second in command, and the leader becomes so irate he attempts to kill Kirk with his bare hands. Very unKelvin indeed! In doing so, the commander realizes he's become too human to fulfill his mission of return to Andromeda. Instead, he wants to spend his days making out, as any good human would, with his sexy counterpart. Finding himself back on top, Kirk extends the hand of Enterprise friendship, the Kelvin woman shifts to making out with the Kelvin commander instead of Kirk, and all is well again in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> universe.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-88175643141700553022010-12-04T21:24:00.000-08:002010-12-04T22:34:15.938-08:00Star Trek: Patterns of Force; aka. How We See Spock Undressed and Lovely for the First Time and Learn that Nazis Always Do the Same Thing Twice<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 50: Patterns of Force</span><br /><br />Again we begin with a mystery. The Enterprise crew has been attempting to contact an Earth historian, Mister John Gill, for over six months without success. It would seem he is missing. However, he had been studying the development of a primitive planetary system when last heard from. Now the crew find themselves within reach of the very planet they hope he resides upon. We witness a touch of hero worship on the part of our heros as both Kirk and Spock carry an affection for Mister Gill's work. Kirk studied him intensively in school, and Spock, too admired Gill's approach to recounting the story of our planet. It seems Gill treated history as a matter of causes and motivations, rather than dates and events, which Spock found fascinating.<br /><br />Strangely, though there is no response from either of the planets our ship is approaching, a spaceship plots an intercept course for the Enterprise. We discover it is actually an unmanned probe carrying a warhead. Being the superior vessel, the Enterprise crew successfully destroys the warhead, but in doing so discovers it to be an atomic weapon.<br /><br />We now find ourselves in the grip of an episode hosting TWO, possibly intertwined, mysteries.<br /><br />The warhead offers this unusual puzzle--how could the technologically primitive planets the crew are approaching have nuclear power long before the anticipated development of their civilizations would project?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KEY EPISODE ELEMENTS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. A Ship Without A Captain or First Mate</span><br />Star Fleet databases inform us that the planets below host undeveloped warlike peoples. Further, the nuclear warhead would suggest those warlike people would mean to attack anything approaching. In the face of such clear expectation for violence, Kirk and Spock do the ONLY THING REASONABLE. They remove the two leaders of their galaxy class starship (themselves) from the bridge of that ship by beaming directly into the path of danger on the planet below. How else could they discover WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ON OUR PLANET OF MYSTERY, and honestly, we couldn't expect them to hand such a task over to just anyone, could we? <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Civilian Attire </span><br />Wonderfully, the situation finds us viewing both our captain and first mate in civilian attire, with Spock's standard knit cap to effectively cover ALL TRACE OF HIS ALIEN COMPONENTS. oh, to be without view of those ears. I love those ears. Still, Spock must fulfill his duty. He dons the cap, and together he and Kirk beam below.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Nazis</span><br />In case we had any doubt over the severity of danger Kirk and Spock have put themselves in, their landing on the planet surface places them IMMEDIATELY in the path of Nazis. That's right--deep space Nazis. Did you hear me? Deep space, primitive planet, war loving Nazis. <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> couldn't be in the midst of coping with the cold war, could they?<br /><br />Kirk responds to the situation with one statement. "Unbelievable." Unbelievable indeed. This other planet uses Nazi symbols, Nazi leadership patterns, and Nazi practices of elimination of those that are not of the desireable race. Unfortunately, however, we also discover that our missing historian is actually the Nazi leader on our new planet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/poslash.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 239px;" src="http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/poslash.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Naked Chest Whip Lashing </span><br />That's right. Kirk and Spock both end up half naked before we are even a quarter of the way into the episode. Captured by the Nazis, our starship leaders find themselves covered in red and green marker stripes as the makeup crew is forced to find a way to imply whiplash cuts administered by the SS guards. After the marker lashing, our men find themselves thrown in jail.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> has showcased Kirk's bare chest again and again, of course. We have not seen Spock's before, however. All I can say is that my love for him has grown. Spock is lovely.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Make Shift Laser Technology </span><br />Wonderfully, while preparing a makeshift laser Spock gives us first a lecture on the physics of light transmission, and then a confession on his inability to understand Kirk's use of metaphor.<br /><br />After making a laser out of almost nothing, our crewmen successfully break themselves out of jail along with a planetary prisoner. The prisoner leads them to a secret hideout of those people being killed off by the Nazis.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Spock Embracing Risk</span><br />In the midst of the trials our men face Spock realizes that there is an exhiliration mixed into the reality of chancy situations. Though he is skilled at calculating risk, the truth, he realizes, is that one still never knows if one will succeed--it is in that space of chance that feeling can be found. While facing the possibility of being re-captured by Nazis Spock finds himself there in the space of feeling, though he then also confesses he hopes not to dwell there too long.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. McCoy's Emotionalism</span><br />Wonderfully, McCoy finds being required to beam to the planet wearing his own Nazi uniform. Immediately he gushes with classic frustration and emotion yelling about the trouble of his Nazi boot.<br /><br />McCoy is brought to the planet surface in order to determine if our Mister John Gill is actually drugged, psychotic, or hypnotized. It seems too unbelievable that our dear historian could be the leader of an entire Nazi civilization. We discover Mister Gill has been horribly drugged, though we don't yet know why.<br /><br />McCoy and Spock work together to first stimulate Gill, and then mindmeld with him. Magically, Spock makes it possible for Gill to respond to questions, though he cannot initiate speech himself.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Consequentialism</span><br />In the midst of the Nazi pursuit for obliteration Kirk and Spock are forced to consider a horrible choice--either they kill 1000 to save millions, or they refuse to kill anyone and risk losing everyone. Do the sheer numbers of lives saved make any action worth taking? Does the consequence make a choice right?<br /><br />Kirk, of course, finds another way.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Human Limitation</span><br />We come to understand through this episode that a person with too much leadership power can't resist the chance to play god, thereby choosing wrongly. Our historian, it turns out, used the wisdom he'd gained from studying human history to attempt to lead an alien people out of strife through the example of another time on Earth. Though he'd originally intended it to be without genocide, the situation comes out of his control and leads towards the murdering of innocents.<br /><br />Confused by the illogical choices of the lost historian, Spock resolves NOT to become human. McCoy swears Spock misunderstand human history, and Kirk leads us away from the conflict by closing the episode with a forthright demand to leave orbit.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-8395474448436275442010-12-04T21:20:00.000-08:002010-12-04T21:22:28.178-08:00Message Received from Deep in Space 2<span style="font-family: courier new;">Attention ... Attention ... Attention ...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">26 October 2010</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">We believe we have been able to secure transmission to Earth via an abandoned satellite discovered here in the outer reaches of space. We believe you on Earth will receive the transmissions with a month or so lag time from when we send them. But, nonetheless, this is progress. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Please respond. </span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-44376844615247664232010-11-08T17:21:00.000-08:002010-11-08T17:25:36.889-08:00Message Received from Deep in Space<span style="font-family: courier new;">Attention... Attention... Attention...<br /><br />6 July 2010<br /><br />We have been pulled into a previously uncharted worm hole. We are in uncharted space, and are unable to return the way we came. We are sending this message through the worm hole back to Earth. We do not know how long it will take for you on Earth to receive it.<br /><br />We want you to know, we are making our way back to you. We want you to know Space Vessel The Warp Project and its crew are determined to return. As we make our way back, we are charting never before seen amazing things.<br /><br />p.s. Please feed the dog.<br /></span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-89097574274804597642010-07-05T17:14:00.000-07:002010-07-05T17:19:33.334-07:00Gender Bending "Estrogena Anomoly"<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SnvzAyZIqRc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SnvzAyZIqRc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">The Carol Burnett Show</span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-50724647890592297482010-05-11T10:46:00.000-07:002010-05-11T10:51:51.599-07:00Star Trek ComedyEddie Izzard on Classic <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fbOC0uoKYtU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fbOC0uoKYtU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Eddie Izzard, <span style="font-style: italic;">Unrepeatable</span>, 1994</span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-5841902118933317102010-05-07T01:08:00.000-07:002010-05-07T01:09:39.142-07:00My Mister Lovely<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvegcWoPv_-9_wqV8BN9iLwbgQEv_cbuGOELu0KrKvmZLHcPPjOgM7hB2hW6OsNPhWD4oCC7stodLiBOJ-Saj2VAO-Pwqw5KyehKwerjkQSyX2pn2zYDBrmp7FmGEh6o02jUV8__hpRLGr/s1600/tumblr_l2119a1BjC1qaz7h6o1_400.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvegcWoPv_-9_wqV8BN9iLwbgQEv_cbuGOELu0KrKvmZLHcPPjOgM7hB2hW6OsNPhWD4oCC7stodLiBOJ-Saj2VAO-Pwqw5KyehKwerjkQSyX2pn2zYDBrmp7FmGEh6o02jUV8__hpRLGr/s320/tumblr_l2119a1BjC1qaz7h6o1_400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468437235433120050" border="0" /></a>I swoon.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-85099792751753380212010-05-06T14:38:00.001-07:002010-05-06T14:39:24.084-07:00Spock Eats<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwSYfrpywNzFsi8s1TJbFfmTlNYkSUDd1PoQZpCkjWqXhRKZkXPUVXw2L2azpo-wHjGIryCiss4dAM4S7NtbmzUld-EW7hO3nE8oyXUGhqQupG249PsB08lJUbivyVIAxNIYstt88bFXA/s1600/tumblr_l1khj03jtE1qa5gdro1_500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwSYfrpywNzFsi8s1TJbFfmTlNYkSUDd1PoQZpCkjWqXhRKZkXPUVXw2L2azpo-wHjGIryCiss4dAM4S7NtbmzUld-EW7hO3nE8oyXUGhqQupG249PsB08lJUbivyVIAxNIYstt88bFXA/s320/tumblr_l1khj03jtE1qa5gdro1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468274827143399522" border="0" /></a><br />He lives!hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-43327105242431212222010-05-04T20:13:00.000-07:002010-05-04T20:19:04.568-07:00Star Trek: Return to Tomorrow; aka. OH MY GOD LOVING SOMEONE WHEN YOU BOTH HAVE BODIES IS, LIKE, REALLY HOT AND GOOD, THANK THE LORD<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 49: Return to Tomorrow</span><br /><br />Sulu finally returns to our <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> screen after a lengthy hiatus for the sake of filming <span style="font-style: italic;">Green Berets</span>. Poor Spock, however, looks swollen eyed and tired, as he has for several episodes. Sitting where Chekov has been for the entirety of season two, there is now a never before seen officer.<br /><br />The Enterprise approaches an apparently now-dead planet, unsure of why or how the planet has reached its current state. Upon questioning the reasons for the planet’s state, a massive, echoing voice-over speaks to the ship’s crew. The voice invites the crew to orbit the planet, stating that all of their questions will be answered. We discover that the voice is contacting the crew’s thoughts directly, rather than speaking through any kind of mechanical communication device. Further, we discover that not only is the planet devoid of any life of the sort Star Fleet has contacted before, the voice is also, apparently, without any such life form. That is, there is certainly something communicating, but it does not seem to have bodily life.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br /><br />Kirk speaks about the confusion present in their current situation. A voice tells the crew that something has survived, even as the planet was destroyed over a half million years before. As Kirk reflects on the situation, Spock locates an energy source more than several miles within in the planet’s surface. The voice notifies Kirk that the voice-energy source will assist in their being able to transport to deep within the planet. Kirk, McCoy, Spock, and a couple of previously unseen red shirts gather together to prepare for transport. Scotty and McCoy protest, but Spock and Kirk assert that it will be safe. We discover that a new lieutenant doctor, who Kirk is clearly designed to find attractive, has reported for duty to within the planet, even without knowing who ordered the transport.<br /><br />When the away team beams down, however, the two male security officers have been left behind on board the Enterprise. Only the new doctor, and our three primary officers find themselves miles within the planet. The readings of the crews scanners determine that the chamber was constructed a half million years ago, just as the planet was destroyed. Investigating the chamber, they discover an orb containing only energy. The thought-creature tells the crew that he had once been contained within a body much like humanoids, but that his race nearly destroyed itself by thinking of themselves as gods.<br /><br />Kirk asks what help the creature would like, and immediately Kirk is overcome and begins to speak with the voice of the thought-creature. McCoy is angered but Spock convinces him that nothing can be done since the body is still Kirk’s. The new thought-Kirk is passionately entranced with the sensations life within the body. The new creature announces that the woman doctor, and Spock will be needed so that the two other thought-creatures still living can also be preserved via their bodies.<br /><br />The thought-creature tells us that his species seeded the universe, developing the races that are now known to them as humans, Vulcans, etc. Notice how this storyline resembles one of the major episodes of The Next Generation. In that episode we meet a different ancient species that claims to have seeded the various species of humanoids now around the universe.<br /><br />The thought-creature returns control of Kirk’s body to Kirk’s own thoughts, and then notifies our officers that the thought-creatures wish for temporary use of the bodies of Kirk, Spock, and the new woman doctor. The entire crew must agree to the process, or the thought-creatures will simply release them to continue travel around space. The thought-creatures wish to inhabit the humanoid bodies to borrow them for a while, and in so doing build mechanical humanoid bodies for the thought-creatures to then inhabit. Kirk offers a brilliantly passionate speech to remind his crew that though the procedure will be risky, it is worth the potential gains that could be had. “Risk,” he says. “Risk is our business. That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cDsek5x3lT7aRbCWHMBHor4JIBXbqURDixmI0J7wO9JjWKZOxSL5Tg7VIi2U40_tAVoi5hjKhmrqDfY_vwqT-RVZpsJSAZMwwVJsUe8W3_ciPO6LFBqVsqqsdtbE9mVfEzQRFiFAFaah/s1600/returntotomorrow4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cDsek5x3lT7aRbCWHMBHor4JIBXbqURDixmI0J7wO9JjWKZOxSL5Tg7VIi2U40_tAVoi5hjKhmrqDfY_vwqT-RVZpsJSAZMwwVJsUe8W3_ciPO6LFBqVsqqsdtbE9mVfEzQRFiFAFaah/s320/returntotomorrow4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467620010272338626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Love in Humanoid Bodies is Really Hot, and Thought-Spock Wants Some<br /></span></div><br />The entire crew agrees, and so the three thought-creatures’ receptacles are beamed aboard the Enterprise, where they inhabit our officers’ bodies. Thought-Spock wakes to discover himself quite attracted to Nurse Chapel. He immediately compliments her beauty, to which she swoons, having always been attracted to Nurse Chapel. Thought-Kirk and the thought-woman doctor discover a return to passionate life together long enough to kiss, but then begin to collapse again due to an incompatibility between the powerful thought creatures and the human creatures. The thought-Spock goes off to construct a formula that will preserve the bodies while the thought-creatures use them. We discover, however, that the thought-Spock creates a formula that will not actually work for the Kirk body. Thought-Spock wishes for the thought-creature to die, and believes that by killing Kirk’s body he will succeed.<br /><br />The thought-creatures go on to produce android robots within which to house their own minds. Thought-Spock works on convincing Thought-doctor that she could simply keep her humanoid body, rather than move into an android body. In the meantime, Kirk’s body decreases in health, and he collapses. McCoy rushes in to help Kirk but scans show he is dead.<br /><br />In Kirk’s body dying the thought-creature that had inhabited it is now apparently deceased. Kirk’s consciousness, however, is still housed within the receptacle that had previously belonged to the thought-creature. The thought-doctor decides she wants to keep her doctor’s body, and so tries to bribe McCoy into letting her keep the doctor body. However, she realizes that the temptation of such behavior is too great, and chooses against stealing the body of the doctor.<br /><br />Okay, look. Dear jesus. The plot gets complicated here. A thought creature transfers here. Then it moves there. Spock almost dies because he is injected. But then it was a ruse. And the bad thought creature disappears. And then the good thought-creatures that love each other make out like mad wooly animals on the bridge of the Enterprise before they escape into oblivion. They realize they cannot stay in a human world, and so release themselves from human reality. In their last moment together they inhabit the bodies of the Captain and the new doctor and then embrace ina passionate kiss. While kissing they release themselves into oblivion so that Kirk and the doctor “come to” while embracing like mad, wooly animals with a deep commitment to each other. The episode ends with kitchy, happy-making allusions to their enjoyment of the situation buried under professional veneers appropriate to their stations.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-7436209207247625652010-04-25T19:08:00.000-07:002010-04-25T19:17:22.718-07:00Star Trek: Private Little War; aka. OH MY GOD KIRK IS EATEN MY MAGATOO AND ALMOST SEDUCED AGAIN<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 38: A Private Little War</span><br /><br />McCoy gathers samples of organic compounds upon a distant planet where Kirk and Spock search for inhabitants. In the midst of their investigation they discover the prints of the Mogatoo, a violent creature that stands as the only threat on the planet.<br /><br />Suddenly, a noise is heard. Spock and Kirk run to investigate just in time to discover that the inhabitants they are looking for are not the primitive bow-and-arrow types they’d previously expected. Instead, it turns out somehow the villagers have gained technologies beyond their own natural development.<br /><br />One set of villagers have acquired guns, while the other set still fight with bow-and-arrow. Observing the interaction of fighting groups, Kirk realizes that in the group with less effective weaponry is his friend from previous planetary visits. Unwilling to let his friend be ambushed, Kirk throws a rock to distract the men with guns. He and Spock are forced to run in order to return to McCoy and lead the gun toting fighters away. In the midst of their escape Spock is shot. He collapses and the away team beams aboard. While McCoy treats Spock, Uhura calls in a message that a Klingon vessel has been spotted. The ship goes to yellow alert. Kirk, worrying about his friend, deals with the Klingon threat by keeping the Enterprise out of view, then returns to sickbay to visit Spock. We discover that Spock has suffered organ damage, without the availability of replacement organs. Whether Spock will survive is up to his own bodily ability to recover.<br /><br />Aboard the Enterprise is a doctor that had served in the Vulcan war (the first we've heard of such a historical event in <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> history). As a result, McCoy is able to leave Spock in the other doctor’s care so that Kirk and McCoy can return to the planet to contact Kirk’s friend from the previous visit. In the midst of travel to the village, a Mogatoo attacks, and Kirk is hurt. The Mogatoo, we discover, besides being a large white fluff ball creature, also turns out to have poisonous fangs. Our Captain is hurt, and as a result gets to deliver a brilliantly shaking performance of the after effects of poison. Another pleasant after effect comes in the first McCoy voice over <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> has ever offered.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLXXapqFSoDVusJZ6z0x_0AbjPdV0SVSAo16jp9906Y2KiihQOizykbqYZkFbbFeTLV2mqDpiiam8XG8LMB3urxUraLLZj73M4PJ6mpKRH0FUCdPCZqNxApGqq7OjTUUV1rmtvXx-88588/s1600/STPrivateWar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLXXapqFSoDVusJZ6z0x_0AbjPdV0SVSAo16jp9906Y2KiihQOizykbqYZkFbbFeTLV2mqDpiiam8XG8LMB3urxUraLLZj73M4PJ6mpKRH0FUCdPCZqNxApGqq7OjTUUV1rmtvXx-88588/s320/STPrivateWar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464262626138109186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Magatoo<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br /><br />As the episode progresses, we meet Kirk’s friend, and his wife who is said to be able to cure the effects of the Mogatoo poison. We discover that the wife is not only a healer, but also power hungry. She walks into the cave Kirk is being kept in to discover McCoy using his phaser to warm rocks. Seeing the power of the phaser she becomes hungry for the use of them to claim power over the planet.<br /><br />Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Nurse Chapel worries over her love Spock. In the midst of holding his hand she discovers that Spock is not actually dying, but instead is simply concentrating that he appears unconscious. His concentration is reflective of how Vulcans heal.<br /><br />Back on the planet the wife of Kirk’s friend performs an overly eroticized sex dance above Kirk’s naked body as an activity of healing him from the poison. She then collapses across him and he wakes to discover the dark-haired, ethnic beauty beside him, and what looks like a clump of shit upon his shoulder—an apparently healing root remedy. McCoy inspects the wound to discover that the sex dance plus shit ball have healed it and in fact any trace of there ever having been a wound. After Kirk recovers we discover that the sex dance the woman performed was effectively a soul-spirit marriage ceremony and as a result Kirk belongs to the woman. According to her, however, it is not merely a social commitment that binds them, but in fact his very soul has been mixed with hers and now he can refuse her no wish.<br /><br />Upon meeting the woman that has cured him, Kirk is obviously confused. His earth believes demand that the woman belongs to his friend. But he is strangely compelled by her. Further, against the traditions of earth women (which clearly do not usurp political leadership), the wife acts as though she should be able to help make political demands too. Though the men go off to meet on their own, the wife breaks into the meeting and demands phaser like power for the sake of dominance. Kirk resists her demands, however. Kirk’s friend demands that he will not kill anyone, though his wife demands that he must gain weapons to kill the others. When Kirk continues to refuse to give phasers to them, the woman threatens to leave her husband. In the midst of the drama, Kirk’s friend’s wig becomes incredibly messed up, going from an enormous dirty blond look alike mass of soft-drip ice cream, to a rat’s nest atop his head.<br /><br />Kirk’s friend guides Kirk and McCoy into the village. We discover along the way that the villagers used to be peaceful people, but then began making guns and using them to kill hill people’s men, and steal hill people’s women. In the midst of their investigations, we find too that the guns, though now produced by the villagers themselves were actually delivered originally by Klingons that began trading them for their own advantages. It turns out the hill people took to the use of guns as an easier, faster means of gaining what they desire. Kirk and McCoy are discovered, however, and must run from the villagers.<br /><br />Meanwhile, back on board the Enterprise we discover Spock gaining consciousness. Nurse Chapel at his side, Spock demands that she begin slapping him to help him regain consciousness. As a result we are granted a dramatic scene of Nurse Chapel slapping Spock across the face repeatedly until he finally comes to and turns cold to her affections again.<br /><br />Back on the planet’s surface, Kirk has escaped the village with his friend, McCoy, and a gun. Kirk goes on to teach the hill people how to use the gun. McCoy confronts Kirk, threatening him with the claim that the woman really did use her magic to mislead Kirk, now providing guns to the people. Kirk refuses the idea though, and instead looks for the wife to use her to convince his friend that he must fight. Going to visit the woman, she uses a strong aphrodesiac herb on Kirk. Kirk fights the herb, but begins to succumb to its sexual implications just as his friend walks into the wooded area with the gun. Though the friend raises the gun at first, he stops himself and drops it, running away into the woods just as a Mogatoo approaches and goes after Kirk and the magical woman. The Mogatoo begins to attack the woman, but while she writhes on the ground trying to escape, Kirk pulls out his phaser and kills the Mogatoo. The woman knocks Kirk out with a rock, and then steals his phaser, running away with it. As she runs away villagers approach. She approaches offering the phaser as a new weapon to gain power for the hill people. The villagers attack her, threatening rape. In the midst of the attack she takes a knife, but then is stabbed by it again. She does not know how to use the phaser, and in the midst of her treatchery is killed. The friend is forced to fight, against his own vows, as he sees his wife killed. The hill people succeed in fighting off the villagers, but the woman is dead, and Kirk’s friend is psychologically scarred.<br /><br />In the face of his wife’s death, Kirk’s friend demands more guns so that he may war with those that have killed his partner. The future fate of the planet is sealed. A beautiful garden of Eden is forever changed with the face of war as a result of the betrayal of a mythical woman. No sexist overtones here. No. No. Just the retelling of a Classical Story.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-51414616435330736032010-04-22T22:09:00.000-07:002010-04-22T22:23:19.679-07:00Star Trek: TOS: The Immunity Syndrome: aka., OH MY GOD SPACE GIANT AMOEBA!!!<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 47: The Immunity Syndrome</span><br /><br />Our episode begins with an exhausted crew on its way to a planet for rest. In fact, the makeup technicians for our <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> franchise has done an exquisite job at making radical bags under the officers’ eyes, and bleaking out the skin quality of everyone as well.<br /><br />As the Enterprise makes its way to their rest, they are instead called upon by a Starbase to investigate the state of the Intrepid, a Vulcan starship. Shortly after the call, Spock receives a painful psychic flash through which he becomes certain that the entire Intrepid and the star system it was traveling through has died. McCoy, of course, is skeptical and Spock is ordered for tests to sickbay. Who, after all, could know any psychic knowledge of entire star systems?<br /><br />Spock departs with McCoy, and then our crew discovers they will not be taking a rest after all. Star Fleet has contacted our captain. James T. Kirk is forced to reroute to a near by star system to investigate what turns out to be a fully dead star, and the eradication of the Intrepid crew.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yesdbZyq3NUI4FCTG6WRusDNMNIvANYP57rnHfiZLyXnDkubFdAtUPDndQfu7wwb872l4AuRaqd8uIFzunkBe0vuoBjy4evQDHF7wIz-wh7vlBzS5VWwRQLMNxEJK26KbP9N0gaYk7C7/s1600/STImmunity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yesdbZyq3NUI4FCTG6WRusDNMNIvANYP57rnHfiZLyXnDkubFdAtUPDndQfu7wwb872l4AuRaqd8uIFzunkBe0vuoBjy4evQDHF7wIz-wh7vlBzS5VWwRQLMNxEJK26KbP9N0gaYk7C7/s320/STImmunity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463198977736742306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">OH MY GOD! WE ARE ABOUT TO ENCOUNTER... AN AMOEBA!!!<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br /><br />In the late 60’s, and throughout the 70’s, for those of you that didn’t know, discussions of the phenomenon ESP were hot in the United States. In this mild, popularized way the idea of having extra-sensory knowledge of events yet to come echoed out of fortune telling tents at public fairs, and into conversation as a phenomenon sometimes possible, experienced by members of the general public. Scientific studies to test how realistic such ideas might be were launched.<br /><br />I remember my mother and her friends talking about it frequently, and as a young child there seemed, to me, the implication that it might really be possible. My mom isn’t one to easily go for slipshod ideas of the paranormal, but she had some inclinations to consider the possibility that some people really might know upcoming events in advance of their occurrence, and without direct physical evidence that would lead to such expectations.<br /><br />In “The Immunity Syndrome” we see Spock enacting such possibilities. We have never before received any indications from the <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> universe that Vulcans may have ESP type abilities, even if they can mind-meld. Sharing direct encounter with another’s mind depends on physical contact for our beloved Spock. At the destruction of the Intrepid, however, Spock is nowhere near physical contact and yet feels the destruction of fellow members of his people.<br /><br />During McCoy’s examination of Spock we discover that Spock has a deep understanding of how things happen to Vulcans, and so could feel the death screams of the 400 Vulcans aboard the Intrepid. Spock’s experience of feeling his fellow Vulcans leads to a harsh, and direct critique of human history.<br /><br />We are told that the human heart has little ability to empathize with its neighbor, and as a result has little qualms with killing them, or with allowing many, from a distance, to die. Vulcans, on the other hand, have a great depth of feeling for the loss of their fellow kind.<br /><br />As Spock returns to the bridge, he begins scanning areas of space surrounding the former location of the Intrepid. In so doing he discovers a dark cloud in space through which nothing can be seen. Further, the dark cloud happens to be in direct line with the projected line of travel for the now missing Intrepid ship. As the Enterprise launches a scanning probe into the dark cloud an incredible sound is heard throughout the bridge. Uhura then almost faints, and McCoy calls up to announce that half the ship’s crew did faint. McCoy is now forced to give them stimulants. Spock, however, is unable to provide any speculation or fact on the dark cloud. The crew is exhausted, and the computer has no information on the dark cloud phenomenon. The cloud is beyond all previous Star Fleet experience. The only thing that can be sorted out is that it is very possible that the dark cloud is what killed the solar system at the beginning of the episode.<br /><br />Kirk decides the only thing to do is to travel the areas surrounding the dark cloud, and even to penetrate the cloud itself. In penetrating the dark area an incredible sound is released, causing the bridge officers to suffer strongly. However, once the ship is fully inside the cloud, the sound stops, and vision of all the stars that had once been present are now apparently gone. Still Spock has no information. In Engineering Scotty notifies the Captain that the ship lost a significant portion of power. McCoy lets us know too that 2/3 of the personnel is effected either via actual collapse, or exhaustion approaching it.<br /><br />Frustrated, Kirk starts demanding his officers to answer questions though they have no information on what the crew or ship are suffering. Finally, Spock is able to explain that the ship has entered a strange area of space incompatible with the ship’s processes, and too with their bodily functions. McCoy demands that Kirk leave the area of space in order to focus on their possibility of survival. Kirk responds, however, that they have no mission to survive, they have a mission to investigate unknown phenomenon. The ship’s computers reveal that the ship’s crew is slowly dying. Still Kirk persists further, further into the zone of darkness.<br /><br />The crew’s health is decreasing. The ship is functioning exactly backwards of how it is supposed to. They realize that the zone in space the Enterprise is within is drawing all their power, whether mechanical or biological. Finally, Spock announces that the zone the ship is within is a negative energy field but surrounding something else that is the source of the power drain. The zone would seem to only be an effect, rather than the cause of the problem. Kirk asks all to continue their research, and for Scotty to focus on getting the ship out of the zone of darkness.<br /><br />Spock discusses the fate of the Intrepid with Kirk and reveals that working against their survival was a lack of collective memory of being conquered. Vulcan was never taken by another species, and as a result cannot conceive of the idea of being overcome by an external force. Spock claims, therefore, that the Intrepid died in astonishment, unable to logically face what was taking them over. The implication here is, of course, that humans have a greater capacity for facing the possibility of defeat in the face of a stronger enemy, and so then too to overcome it, simply because of a repeated history of being conquered.<br /><br />The crew channels all available power into an attempt to escape the zone, but their attempt is ineffective. In exerting so much power the unknown power-sucking object reveals itself to the Enterprise. Spock cannot say what the object is, but he can confirm that the incredible, Technicolor fish-looking object is certainly the thing taking all their power. They launch another probe, this time succeeding in coming to know more about the power drain. They discover that the space object is not only absolutely enormous, but also living, filled with protoplasm, and covered in space debris. McCoy further studies the probe information and realizes that the several thousand mile wide protoplasm filled organism is actually a single-celled living organism, simpler than an amoeba.<br /><br />McCoy, Spock, and Kirk begin an argument over the idea of entering the single cell, and each presents an argument for why he must be the one that goes inside the enormous cell to study it. Kirk agrees that someone must enter the cell, but he struggles over who will be the one. “Both are right, both are capable, and which of my friends do I condemn to death?”<br /><br />In the meantime, the ship’s power levels reduce to below 50-percent. Spock is chosen to be the one to board the shuttle and enter the giant amoeba. In facing that he has not been chosen to board the shuttle, McCoy throws a fit, believing Spock to be in competition with him. He refuses to acknowledge Spock’s dignity to his face, but immediately upon the launch of the shuttle that will take Spock into the belly of protoplasm, McCoy reveals his emotional strain and care for the situation by wishing Spock luck, though Spock himself never hears it.<br /><br />We watch as Spock slowly slowly enters the alien cell, sure never to return. Upon entering the alien, Spock is tossed about but is able to continue his tests, though apparently without enough power to return from the alien life form. Spock explores the murky pink ribbon-filled insides of the organism. Inside he discovers that the cell is apparently ready to split into two, and thereby reproduce. Immediately after sharing this information contact is lost with Spock. However, information from the shuttle deep inside the alien body begins to transmit. Spock is still alive.<br /><br />On board the Enterprise, McCoy and Kirk understand that they must destroy the organism before it reproduces. On board the shuttle, Spock is looking more and more haggard, but he manages to send a low level message to the ship providing them with information about the cell body. The message makes clear that Spock knew how to destroy the cell, but the message stops before the information is delivered. It would seem that Spock has died.<br /><br />Discussing their grief, Kirk and McCoy realize they can serve as antibodies to the cellular activity. With this in mind, Kirk decides to go ahead and enter the cell itself. Though it would seem a death sentence, the Enterprise is entering what would seem the end of their lives anyway, and so the risk seems worthwhile.<br /><br />McCoy keeps sensing Spock’s presence, reliving the earlier references to ESP. Though McCoy is skeptical that his green-blooded colleague could really be alive, he keeps feeling as though he must be.<br /><br />The ship enters the giant cell, and discovers only minimal damage from impact, though ship’s power is greatly reduced. Now inside the cell, Kirk announces they will release anti-matter into the protoplasm of the cell. They will shoot an anti-matter probe directly into the nucleus of the cell.<br /><br />The episode flashes again to the shuttle where we see that Spock is still alive, as McCoy has sensed. Aboard the shuttle Spock is recording his final will and testament through which he bequeaths his highest accommodation to the entire Enterprise crew. Similarly, Kirk announces his recognitions of his officer staff, and highest accommodation to Spock.<br /><br />The crew now plans to launch an antimatter probe directly into the nucleus. But then, to survive, the ship must release itself from cell membrane. In reversing itself the ship encounters the shuttle and Kirk demands a tractor beam on the shuttle, even though it will risk the ship’s escape. Spock demands the ship relinquish its attempt, but Kirk refuses. Still inside the cellular membrane, though near its outer limits, the probe explodes. The ship’s crew believes it will die, but after much camera and set shaking, complete with dramatic head waving by Captain Kirk, the stars have returned. The monstrous cell is dead. Spock is alive. And he and McCoy are back to giving each other hell.<br /><br />Our crew, finally, is on its way to a nice period of rest, but not before Kirk flirts excessively with his short skirted crew members that he might gain his rest with.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-5065766075766450622010-03-23T21:52:00.000-07:002010-03-23T22:09:27.141-07:00Star Trek: The Original Series: A Piece of the Action; aka Kirk Goes Crazy Acting the Gangster and Takes Spock With Him<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 46: A Piece of the Action</span><br /><br />Strangely, our episode opens with the discovery that the Star Fleet exploration vessel, the U.S.S. Horizon, has been missing for a hundred years. It's last known point of contact was a planet now being visited by our own U.S.S. Enterprise. However, it's a planet that has not been seen by Star Fleet since the Horizon’s departure, that is, over 100 years ago. The situation is confusing to even our trusty bridge crew, but Kirk promises to explain as he beams down with both McCoy and Spock.<br /><br />It turns out the planet's population has evolved in an altered manner since the visit of the Horizon. Further, materials left behind by the Horizon have effectively contaminated the otherwise expected cultural trajectory of the planet and it is now our away teams job to "de-contaminate" their culture of the Horizon's untoward influences by determining the artifact left behind as cause of the unanticipated change. Apparently, before the Horizon's visit the planet was a pre-industrial civilization not yet ready to develop technological advances on their own. Spock, McCoy, and Kirk beam down not knowing what they may find, and so too not knowing what could possibly be the source of contamination they must correct. Our officers find themselves ready to study the since changed culture, only to discover a very Chicago gangster looking, utterly humanoid, earth-like city state. Our crew is greeted by zoot suit wearing, machine gun wielding dominators.<br /><br />Gangsters approach our Captain and their lead man, equipped with enormous tommy gun croons, “I wanna see you turn to stone. Put your hands over your head.” And so it begins.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuvY1KHMKI2pnquT1eeLutoirp6YPJ0sld-JUOPEQLZK3n72ttK2TskckGLPkFlXqs-L8S2jFP21S1jCy4K0chI8JSv6OYut7jOsrTgexM9hHsEJh9akvVngEa7caJpQh4Es5fAurbhUq/s1600-h/STPieceoftheAction.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuvY1KHMKI2pnquT1eeLutoirp6YPJ0sld-JUOPEQLZK3n72ttK2TskckGLPkFlXqs-L8S2jFP21S1jCy4K0chI8JSv6OYut7jOsrTgexM9hHsEJh9akvVngEa7caJpQh4Es5fAurbhUq/s320/STPieceoftheAction.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452059653340235858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Kirk and Spock really playing the part<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Let’s Pretend We Can Travel Back in Time Star Trek Drinking Game</span><br /><br />Since this episode doesn’t appear to be sci-fi anyway (it’s just another revisiting of the U.S. recent past with a lot of brilliant over acting by our beloved William Shatner) let’s not bother reviewing the socio-political commentary. Let’s get straight to the business.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Drink whenever:</span><br /><ol><li>Spock asks a question that pisses off “the boys.”</li><li>There’s a drive by shooting. </li><li>McCoy gets called "blue eyes."</li><li>Kirk is dumbfounded by the conditions of the situation (careful you'll be blind drunk quick on this one). </li><li>Someone refers to the boss. </li><li>You ask yourself, “Wait a minute, how do these people on a distant planet look just exactly like humans?”</li><li>A weapon gets referred to as "a chopper."</li><li>Someone mentions “Kracko.”</li><li>You ask yourself how one book written in 1992 left behind by the Horizon has become the bible of an entire world.</li><li>You realize women are dealt with as only decorative.</li><li>Spock remarks on the horrifying circumstances being, “Interesting.”</li><li>You realize, “Wait, this isn’t sci-fi.”</li><li>You recognize that Kirk is simply incapable of lying, and you’re irritated by the obviousness of it.</li><li>The away team is sent to "the warehouse."</li><li>Scotty acts confused.</li><li>The life of the Captain is threatened (again, plain tar loaded drunk).</li><li>The crew acts completely incapable of dealing with the violent tendencies of this alternate culture.</li><li>You think, wait a minute. “What the hell? The writers think that a Chicago Mob culture on a distant planet is going to offer Americans of the early 1970’s a lesson on allowing the bible to dominate their entire culture?”</li><li>You realize your thought from drinking point 18 really is the writers' entire goal with this episode.<br /></li><li>Kirk pulls on challenges of masculinity to get what he wants.</li><li>Kirk talks total nonsense (very drunk by now). </li><li>Kirk demands Spock to participate in nonsense.</li><li>Spock uses his Vulcan pinch.</li><li>Kirk proves he is barely able to breathe.</li><li>As Kirk gets pushed into the backseat of an old black car you suddenly think of the Matrix and wonder if he’ll have a giant metal bug pulled out of his abdomen.</li><li>McCoy and Spock get all cute and smart-man flirty with each other (this won't happen enough to get you drunk, but it will make the episode for you).</li><li>Spock utilizes the earth-like radio system to contact Uhura.</li><li>Krako turns out to be far less mob-like leader than you expected or hoped for.</li><li>Someone plays either darts or pool.</li><li>You realize Krako is actually a well-known actor.</li><li>You think, “Boy, Kirk’s shirt doesn’t really fit that well.”</li><li>One of the decorative women turns out to be wearing macramé ruffles while rubbing Kirk’s back. </li><li>You think, “Boy, the way these guys are talking must make their throat hurt quite a bit. I bet he wants some water. Do mobsters really talk that way?”</li><li>McCoy says, “Wow.”</li><li>Spock references logic and the idea of a moral inversion in the same sentence.</li><li>The crew is confused by slang such as “the bag,” “heaters,” “spring,” or “palee.”</li><li>Spock is suckered into going along with a proven liar.</li><li>Spock uses the word “Indigenous.”</li><li>Kirk acts like he has ingenuity.</li><li>Kirk engages in a fight scene that turns out to not make any sense. </li><li>A woman is chewing gun (super dooper big time drunk from this one).</li><li>Someone calls Spock a dummy.</li><li>Spock uses grammatical analysis to try and reason with a gangster.</li><li>Kirk plays tough guy (call ahead before the episode starts to have a friend check on you and take you to the emergency room to have your stomach pumped from this one).</li><li>Kirk and Spock play dress up.</li><li>Spock gives Kirk driving lessons.</li><li>A kid appears on screen.</li><li>Kirk plays daddy.</li><li>Really bad special effects appear on the screen in flashing red lights. </li><li>Spock and Kirk get tricked.</li><li>You start to suspect this whole episode was written just so that Shatner could play some old acting dream mob part, kind of like how Brett Spiner gets to play Sherlock all the time on <span style="font-style: italic;">The Next Generation</span>.</li><li>Kirk gets a little too into his gangster part (you're having your stomach pumped now). </li><li>Spock goes along with Kirk as he’s able, though it’s clearly a strain for him.</li><li>You realize Kirk is wearing a Panama and wonder if he and Carmen San Diego would get along.</li><li>Kirk and Spock beat people up.</li><li>Scotty tries to smartly use local slang and says the wrong thing.</li><li>Kirk and Spock leave their guns behind and yet find them in exactly the same place when they return.</li><li>Spock starts playing gangster too and goes so far as to talk funny while doing it.</li><li>The Enterprise uses the transporter to beam an Indigenous person to a new location.</li><li>Kirk gets fancy with the communication device.</li><li>The Enterprise stuns everybody from space.</li><li>Spock and McCoy brood.</li><li>Kirk turns logic back on Spock.</li><li>You realize <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> really is just incredibly cheesy.</li></ol>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-7102291740429317502010-03-22T19:04:00.000-07:002010-03-22T19:14:15.243-07:00Shatner, The Man, Has a BirthdayToday is an intensely special day. William Shatner has a birthday. It is today. Today is the day. March 22. Let us pay homage and celebrate.<br /><br /><center><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NN3MGN899yE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NN3MGN899yE&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><center> <span style="font-size:78%;">Shatner performing Elton John's "Rocket Man" at the 1978 Science Fiction awards</span> </center><br /><br /><center><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ouSrpsAHf8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ouSrpsAHf8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><center> <span style="font-size:78%;">Shatner's World of Warcraft Commercial </span></center><br /><br /><center><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nlOTRxt-dIw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nlOTRxt-dIw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><center> <span style="font-size:78%;">Shatner's Famous Self-Determined Pronunciations, example: "Sabotage"</span></center><br /><br /><center><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mFvFmlb1C_Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mFvFmlb1C_Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><center> <span style="font-size:78%;">Shatner interviews Rush Limbaugh on _Raw Nerve_, December 2009 </span></center>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-30146933574602686582010-02-20T17:49:00.000-08:002010-02-20T19:02:13.269-08:00Star Trek: The Gamesters of Triskelion; aka., "Baby, Kiss Me in that Silver Swimsuit"<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 45: The Gamesters of Triskelion</span><br /><br />Our episode opens with an incredible closeup of an actual planet. The imagery is so realistic, you've gotta appreciate these special effects. Also, our crew has finally figured out how to show a ship in space without it looking like a toy dangling bobbly-bobbly on a string against a fake backdrop. Nice space moves, Enterprise!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWBMIMwBLVYPa2JrB7jewEapVdTGxTqKHL5nYwv3aTs6ejfSrLeROQO5JZk_SaTddSLG4_JiNQMXNdSWwSa5KYPTImLmCBHC3trsza19FNG4kfIvnWqngLcbjq6KXl_BMkdFkFUxV8PJE/s1600-h/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWBMIMwBLVYPa2JrB7jewEapVdTGxTqKHL5nYwv3aTs6ejfSrLeROQO5JZk_SaTddSLG4_JiNQMXNdSWwSa5KYPTImLmCBHC3trsza19FNG4kfIvnWqngLcbjq6KXl_BMkdFkFUxV8PJE/s400/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440522904416116066" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Kirk Bargaining with Brains,<br />Or, Those That We Will Come To Discover As a Warning Against Our Focusing too Much on Intellectual Pursuits Without Compassion<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />The planet our crew is exploring is uninhabited, but with automated exploration facilities. Sulu continues to be away for the filming of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Green Berets</span>.<br /><br />Our crew has taken up the habit, finally, of leaving a reasonable leader aboard the ship as others travel on away mission. With that in mind, Spock has been left aboard the Enterprise, along with Scotty. In the meantime, Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura have beamed down to inspect the automated research stations of the planet, but just as they board the transportation platform, they are instead suddenly moved in a quick flash from the Enterprise to a distant planet. It is clear they have not vaporized, and then rematerialized as would usually happen with the transportation device. Instead, they have been captured and space-moved somehow. Scotty has no record of where they have departed to. And on the planet our away team realizes they are not on the planet they'd expected to travel to. Further, their equipment--communication device, and phasers--do not work. Quickly following their arrival, humanoids in crazy costumes appear to fight our crew, and we discover Uhura has added a belt to her very short skirt.<br /><br />After our team is defeated in combat, a vampire looking man appears to explain that our away team has been brought to the planet in order to be trained for the sake of unseen phantom leaders. We are told they are on the planet Triskelion, and are to spend the rest of their lives there being trained.<br /><br />Back on board the Enterprise Scotty and Spock are unable to locate evidence of the away team, or to where they moved.<br /><br />On the planet's surface Kirk attempts an escape. Immediately following the vampire man's eyes illuminate revealing his connection to "collars of obedience" placed about their necks. The three Star Fleet officers collapse onto the floor screaming in pain as the collars trigger horrible stimulation.<br /><br />Unfortunately, <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> has become far too comfortable with showing violence against women. In the midst of their confinement, Uhura is selected to apparently mate with another humanoid creature. She fights him off, however, screaming, and after much struggle the humanoid male leaves, though he reprimands her for her refusal.<br /><br />Shortly following, Spock somehow discovers a discrepency within a hydrogen cloud that miraculously indicates to him he should be searching for his crewmates in another galaxy.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, back on the planet's surface, Chekov is paired with a humoid that shows mixed gender characteristics. He is unable to determine if his fellow captive should be regarded as man or woman, though ze are of a different species entirely, and so struggles with how to speak to zim. Chekov finds himself intimidated by the situation.<br /><br />Kirk, on the other hand, is paired with a green haired woman in a silver swimsuit. He uses his masculine allurements to try and persuade her to give him information about the situation, though she repeatedly refuses. Still, Kirk knows he will teach her his masculine ways.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGSg7BPV5yuy6HzHXB6YL5JBUXQGjj0OFOKqb5ty_f3mjWz5uyNgpYHewBgerZHjniJrIKEY-seZlKnKAWZ8JcwxopervP17MrDgzOLHF30czmRBjZQaEVUDiEm67rOSg_gqiF7OF3Bc-o/s1600-h/tumblr_kvcubtASX21qa98p9o1_500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGSg7BPV5yuy6HzHXB6YL5JBUXQGjj0OFOKqb5ty_f3mjWz5uyNgpYHewBgerZHjniJrIKEY-seZlKnKAWZ8JcwxopervP17MrDgzOLHF30czmRBjZQaEVUDiEm67rOSg_gqiF7OF3Bc-o/s400/tumblr_kvcubtASX21qa98p9o1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440522738119222850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Kirk's Green Haired Woman, Waiting to Learn From Him</span><br /></div><br />The Enterprise follows the hydrogen cloud evidence, which leads them to almost 12 light years away. The rest of the crew begins to suspect Spock must be crazy because the area of space they arrive at appears to be empty.<br /><br />Back on the planet's surface, our away team becomes subject to extensive punishment and torture training. Kirk steps in to keep Uhura from being beaten, and as a result is whipped repeatedly. He fights back, however, and succeeds in hurting the humanoid that beats him. His behavior gains the favor of their punishers. For the first time our crew hears the voices of their captors. They speak as phantom voices bidding on "the new comers." Further, the voices place bets on the outcomes of our away team as well.<br /><br />Kirk continues to work on gaining information from the woman he has been paired with. However, her entire life has been spent within this planet system, and as a result she simply takes her situation for granted, as if it is natural and normal. She has lived her entire existence trained into the ways of her captive situation. Kirk lures her into thinking further on her situation though by triggering her physical desires. The feelings and thoughts confuse her.<br /><br />"Love is the most important thing on earth," Kirk tells her. He tells her about how on earth men and women choose each other and make each other happy. His talk scares her and he stops pushing her to develop romantic feelings. But as a result she agrees to speak the state of the providers, causing her collar to trigger serious pain for her. Kirk begs his captors to stop. As a result, he is able to bring her closely to him in near naked embrace as he kisses her. She is moved. It turns out his affection with the woman leads to the captors' amusement, and they decide to not punish his disobedience as a result.<br /><br />Oh Kirk! Your kisses really do have special powers. Kirk's explanation of love "on his planet" only deepens the nobility we are supposed to see in him. Though he explains that humans value love above all other personal fulfillments, we know that he has chosen against it for the sake of his pursuit of knowledge and leadership throughout the galaxy. In this way, we are meant to believe in Kirk's willingness to sacrifice his own interests for the sake of the greater good; he apparently foregos his own desires for relationship instead turns to his commitment to Star Fleet. A true company man.<br /><br />Back onboard the Enterprise, Scotty and McCoy are trying to demand that Spock is crazy for taking them away several light years from the original planet. Spock, however, explains that he is certain that a highly concentrated beam of light caught the missing crew members and took them away to a distant star system. They all agree that they will look in the new system, and then return to the original planet if no further evidence is found.<br /><br />In the meantime, Kirk uses his masculine prowess to further confuse the woman he has continually made out, and then to knock her unconscious. Our crew then escapes from their quarters and are punished via their collars as a result.<br /><br />The Enterprise arrives at a planet that shows humanoid life forms. Spock scans the planet and discovers a power source to which he will beam down along with McCoy. They leave Scotty in command. Before the pair is able to actually beam down the captor voices are suddenly heard aboard the Enterprise as well. The ship is captured, and its powers are taken from its crew.<br /><br />Kirk convinces his captors, however, to let him see them. We discover that the creatures that hold them are in the shape of mere brains. They claim that they had previously been humanoids as well but evolved into limited physical abilities with pure mental capacity. Realizing that the brains are interested primarily in betting, Kirk challenges the brains to a wager. He will fight three other captors. If Kirk wins, his entire crew will be released, and the other captors will be released and trained. If Kirk dies, his people will become captives for the brains.<br /><br />The brains appear, we realize, as a warning to us to not focus too heavily on the development of intellectual ability without the balance of compassion. If Roddenberry were alive today, I would beg him to write a new <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> series that showcases a warning to not forego the development of sound reasoning by instead turning to instant self-fulfillment and reactive decision making. We could use an update on this lesson of balance, it would seem.<br /><br />During the fight we get to witness various alien life forms that have appeared in passing in previous episodes. In the midst of the fight Kirk is put against the woman he has been busy kissing. They discover that neither is able to kill the other. However, she surrenders, thereby causing Kirk to win his wager with the brains, and so allowing all the captives to be released. The woman has lived her entire life as a captive, and now discovers that she is free to choose what she will. However, she does not yet know how to choose for herself. So, one last time Kirk shows her. He takes her in embrace and kisses her before beaming away. The woman is left behind on the planet, with her non-binary trans-gender friend, and the vampire, crying for the thoughts that now trouble her.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-47779020363945016452010-02-18T18:16:00.001-08:002010-02-18T19:15:56.754-08:00Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles: aka., Boy, These Mid-2nd Season Episodes Sure Are About Excessive Eating<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 44: The Trouble With Tribbles</span><br /><br />Our episode begins with Spock offering us a clear coaching as to what counts as a joke, thank god. Comments about scents traveling through space do <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> count. I repeat do NOT count. There is a vacuum in space, you know. That means no air. That means the idea of scents traveling is illogical. I repeat, illogical!<br /><br />Interestingly enough, we also get a much thicker "Russian" accent from Chekov, and a lot of Scotty air time. Sulu is absent from this episode, as a result of his filming <span style="font-style: italic;">The Green Berets</span>, so we've got to rely on our other not-just-American character actors instead.<br /><br />Just as Kirk and Spock are chastising Chekov for his poor recollection of the Klingon-Star Fleet encounters in the quadrant they are traveling within, a high level distress call is heard from the Space Station K7, the very location the Enterprise is on its way to. The distress call is of the highest level, reflecting the threat of absolute disaster. The crew rushes to their destination at battle station readiness expecting absolute space war.<br /><br />Arriving at the Space Station, it turns out there is no such thing as war. Instead, there is a radically arrogant Under Secretary of Agriculture demanding that the entire Enterprise crew be at the beck-and-call of this head of agriculture for the sake of protecting high yield grain, the only grain, in fact, that will grow on a planet the Under Secretary hopes to develop.<br /><br />The point though, as we know, is that Kirk will be at the beck-and-call of no one. He's a self determining sort of fella. But, as it turns out, Star Fleet believes in the necessity of developing this planet too, and as a result, the grain must be protected. Kirk is utterly put out. In the meantime, he approves shore leave for much of the Enterprise crew (though then is quickly forced to rescind that approval when Klingon's approach the space station posing a very serious space war threat afterall. Klingons are our super super bad bad dudes of space at this point in <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> history, you'll remember.). In the midst of trying to fulfill her desire to shop as part of shore leave, Uhura encounters a hairy little purring animal that she decides she adores. And so our episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles" begins.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />Okay, look. This is the most over-celebrated, horribly written, highly watched episode in the entirety of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> universe. The truth is, I can barely bear to watch it. So, that being said, let me, for this one post, pretend I'm ten-years old too, and post a review as I would if I were only ten.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Pretending-to-be-Ten-Years-Old Episode Summary</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVGtSC2z6B6p9qTLFSrzdA5PbhwDtip3sAq2rr0Ga7MfD72WHPZKPrBckb6UftVdadgFwreeeArJlBksmV-GOgJ5ZeGj-k4iMMTCbob5XVWjIKiBE53uNXc-F8Mv9eaE8KL0QRyV_HeCO1/s1600-h/STTroubleTrib.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVGtSC2z6B6p9qTLFSrzdA5PbhwDtip3sAq2rr0Ga7MfD72WHPZKPrBckb6UftVdadgFwreeeArJlBksmV-GOgJ5ZeGj-k4iMMTCbob5XVWjIKiBE53uNXc-F8Mv9eaE8KL0QRyV_HeCO1/s320/STTroubleTrib.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439780014814206594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Kirk, just when he thinks he's gonna lose, but if Kirk has it hard it always means he's gonna win real real big.<br />So, Kirk, just when he's gonna win real real big.<br /><br /></span></div>Kirk is angry. Super angry. And then he's told what to do anyway. But he won't do it. He knows better. But he has to. So he will. But we know Kirk always wins. So it'll turn out he wins somehow, and he'll win good since he suffered.<br /><br />Uhura makes a mistake. She likes a cute little woo woo fuzzy fuzzy purring purring thing. Oh so cute! Oh so cute! she says. But that thing eats everything. Boy does it eat.<br /><br />And then the guy that made Kirk mad loses all his good stuff grain cause the fuzzy thing eats it. But it turns out the good stuff was poisoned anyway cause the Klingons wanted to hurt everybody cause we're supposed to think Klingons are bad. I think we just haven't taken the time to understand them. Klingons are just like you and me. Just like when we're cranky.<br /><br />So, the fuzzy things take over cause they ate too much. But then when you think it's gonna go bad the fuzzy things die. Oh they were cute. But they die. And so Kirk wins. Cause the fuzzy things die. But they ate the bossy man's grain, and he'd been bossing Kirk. And the Klingons are to blame so Kirk doesn't get in trouble but the bossy man gets what Kirk would give him if he could anyway. So Kirk wins. TA DA!<br /><br />The end!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode History</span><br />It turns out "The Trouble with Tribbles" was actually written by a more-or-less random college student that simply enjoyed the show and decided to try his hand at television story lines. He apparently submitted five episode ideas to the <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> crew, and his plot suggestion "The Fuzzies" was purchased for production.<br /><br />The premise of the show was originally meant to serve as political commentary for the idea of introducing new species into an environment in which they have no natural predators. In other words, the show was meant to remind us that even adorable things can be quite dangerous, with the crop damage induced by rabbits in Australia as its inspiration.<br /><br />David Gerrod, the writer of "The Fuzzies" also went on to have a small part in the original <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek: The Motion Picture</span>.<br /><br />In this episode there are also two moments when you can see an unusual physical characteristic of our beloved Scotty. It turns out the actor James Doohan served during the Second World War for the Royal Canadian Artillery. Incredibly, Doohan experienced his first military combat in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day. He managed to lead his men to higher ground, saving most of their lives, and moving them safely through a live mine field where Doohan himself killed two snipers that had been firing on the allied forces. In the process, however, he was hit by over six rounds, with bullets rushing through his legs, his right middle finger, and hitting him in the chest. Miraculously, the bullet to the chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case over his heart. (Honestly, in cases such as this, thank god for smoking.) His right middle finger had to be amputated there on the field. Though Doohan concealed his four-fingered hand during his acting career, there are a few scenes in <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> history when the injury shows. Two such scenes occur within Episode 44; as Scotty throws a punch in the middle of a bar fight scene, and then later when Scotty carries a huge load of tribbles into the Enterprise lounge. Later, in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Search for Spock</span> the missing finger shows itself again as Scotty hands parts for the U.S.S. Excelsior to McCoy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNaD3yVZvVglQDB5_LZW5xwCT9MUY1zoST4wv3vThEJpuDT42e10fQo5uEr7liJjjcjn5JA8wTixb-SkW5OYV0sYmcptoAtcIGXy_OW2YR8g6MbqKoq39gGqbat8k30d3rsTtRm0-uxX6/s1600-h/800px-Doohan.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNaD3yVZvVglQDB5_LZW5xwCT9MUY1zoST4wv3vThEJpuDT42e10fQo5uEr7liJjjcjn5JA8wTixb-SkW5OYV0sYmcptoAtcIGXy_OW2YR8g6MbqKoq39gGqbat8k30d3rsTtRm0-uxX6/s320/800px-Doohan.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439785392466724578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Doohan's four fingered hand shows in the cement outside The Disney Amphitheatre at the Walt Disney World Hollywood Theme Park<br /></span></div><br />As a further, pro-Scotty sidenote, his links to <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> include him having previously starred in a <span style="font-style: italic;">Bonanza</span> episode with Majel Barrett, the woman that would go on to be cast as Nurse Chapel (only after serving as the First Officer in the original pilor), the nurse that dearly loves our Spock, and the future wife of Gene Roddenberry.<br /><br />Though Doohan grew up in Canada, he earned his role as our beloved Scottsman on <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> by showcasing his ability to play different voices. He apparently offered Roddenberry a variety of accents, but the two decided on a Scottish character together. Later, in <span style="font-style: italic;">the Animated Series</span>, Roddenberry took advantage of Doohan's voice abilities and cast him in multiple "guest starring" voice roles for the series. <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-28804770822124922622010-02-17T17:25:00.001-08:002010-02-17T18:47:18.418-08:00Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold; aka They Belly Dance in Space Too, Don't They?<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 43: Wolf in the Fold</span><br /><br />Our episode begins with a belly dancer that showcases remarkably moveable breasts, a lot of skin, and a bunch of plastic tiki-style attire. What the heck? It turns out belly dancing in space includes a mix of Middle Eastern and Hawaiian attire merged together as, what Bones calls, "a completely hedonistic society."<br /><br />As if this isn't unfortunate enough, Scotty has a serious fascination with our magically breasted woman, as do both Bones and Kirk. Kirk, however, has invited our dancer over for the enjoyment of "her good company" specifically because Scotty likes her so much. Unfortunately, Kirk's pimp-tastic behavior has seriously pissed off not only a cape-wearing mystery man inside the same bar, but also another man wearing a costume remarkably like that of the drum clashing dancing monkey so common to Hollywood's version of the classic Middle Eastern movie of this same time period, the late 1960's.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9x7z0WLfmJLSYchPG5PkluoMpnwRVJjzc0NXLnI8q_Nl-yoNHwib8B2AHRq1j4ZTIKrohk3i5gYUIYAGm97-fDbJIsd78BxZt-Z4MiIZ2i0AJoRi1nvrT0umgEFhqiF-b_beI1dDsnh8/s1600-h/trekdance2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9x7z0WLfmJLSYchPG5PkluoMpnwRVJjzc0NXLnI8q_Nl-yoNHwib8B2AHRq1j4ZTIKrohk3i5gYUIYAGm97-fDbJIsd78BxZt-Z4MiIZ2i0AJoRi1nvrT0umgEFhqiF-b_beI1dDsnh8/s400/trekdance2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439404250769764274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Our Dancer<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />Using the dry-ice low-hovering fog of the planet as an allurement, Scotty convinces our dancer to go for a walk with him in the night. Immediately following his departure, Kirk and McCoy erupt into hedonistic masculine giggles about how their work is never done--leading his men to their fulfillment, and delivering and then fulfilling prescriptions of pleasure, respectively. Yes, the episode really does open just so baldly.<br /><br />Having fulfilled their duties in helping Scotty "hook up", our captain and doctor are now free to explore "a place on the other side of town where the women are just so...." We never hear explicitly what the women actually are.<br /><br />In the midst of their movement to the other side of town, our officers hear a woman scream. Rushing to investigate, they discover the dancer dead, stabbed a dozen times, and a short distance away Scotty is holding a knife. Now, Scotty is a suspect in a murder investigation. Strangely, Scotty doesn't remember a thing beyond leaving the bar with his "bonny lass." Additionally, Scotty has a large bump on his head, accompanied by a concusion.<br /><br />We meet, now, the lead police authority of the planet. He has the highest legal authority on the planet, excluding the government official, who holds final say in all matters. These two, then, represent the leaders of the planet. In ask about local legal procedures, our ship's officers discover that (1) "the law of the planet is love", and also (2) that the planet used to rely on empathic powers to determine the truth of the situation in the midst of crimes, though such crimes are now rare in this place. In fact, the planet residents, we discover, can be regarded as sheep, devoid of extreme emotions, and rich is soft cuddly feeling for each other.<br /><br />The government official tells us his wife has these empathic powers long ago relied on, and states that she will perform an investigation. Immediately the legal authority protests, but the official is firm on the matter. Kirk and McCoy agree to the empathic investigation, but only after also offering to use too their psychotricorder from on board the Enterprise. We've never heard of a psychotricorder before, but it turns out that such equipment has the capacity to fully read the memory of anyone examined with it, as long as privacy is actually maintained. Remarkable!<br /><br />In the midst of preparing to investigate, the female technician sent down from the Enterprise with the psychotricorder is found dead, stabbed to death, just as the dancer. Rushing to answer a scream, McCoy and Kirk again discover Scotty completely unconscious in the room alone with the murder victim. The privacy demanded in the situation serves well for hiding the source of the crime, and for making it appear that Scotty must be the main suspect.<br /><br />Now, with two murders, and Scotty as the only clear suspect, a deeper investigation is taking place. To investigate using the empathic powers of the official's wife, a seance occurs. The wife of the planet's leader goes into trance and shouts that evil evil is in the room, a woman hating evil that will never die. (Oh no! Surely patriarchy has some shelf life? Please lord, please?) Then, suddenly, in the midst of her pronouncements of evil evil evil in the room, the light goes dark, and a scream is heard. When the lights come up again, the empathic woman too has been stabbed, and her blood is found on Scotty.<br /><br />Now even Kirk must accept that the evidence strongly points to Scotty, though we know Scotty has too much Scottish tranquility to actually murder anyone. Kirk, and McCoy convince the leaders of the planet to beam the suspects of the case (the two men from the bar with their odd costumes are now included as suspects, simply by having been in the bar that night), as well as the investigators, and our crew, onto the Enterprise. It turns out, there on the ship, is a machine that can without a doubt read the entirety of a person's memory.<br /><br />In the midst of investigation, the machine continually confirms Scotty's truth telling as he confesses to the facts he recalls. In the midst of questioning Scotty also confirms that there was something ghostly in the room that he felt between him and the murdered woman. In response to this, the planet's lead legal enforcement shouts repeatedly about the absurdity of the suggestion, and his doubt that the Enterprise machine could really be accurate, though the machine continually confirms that Scotty is telling the truth. Ghostly figures accurately presented? Yes! Scotty's innocence, it would seem, hangs on proving the reality of a ghost. Strange.<br /><br />The investigation continues, with the second suspect now being questioned. It turns out this suspect, the caped man, had been engaged to marry the dancer from the beginning of the show, and the monkey dressed man was her father. In the midst of questioning of the previously-caped suspect, we discover that though they were engaged, the dancer did not love him, and he, therefore was jealous of her. The planet's leader is horrified. Jealousy is no emotion fit for sheep. Spock and Kirk together begin to think through the evidence, utilizing too the information shouted during the seance.<br /><br />Profoundly, in the midst of the study by our officers of the evidence, with the help of the computer, they realize that words that occurred in the midst of the seance actually translate to the English name "Jack the Ripper." They realize too that all the evidence involved in the case actually points to the existence of an energy-based mass, mass murderer of women that feeds on death and fear, and is able to assume physical form but then also take gaseous form. My god! The ghostly figure Scotty encountered then could be real! In the midst of the investigation, the planet's legal authority continually throws fits over the apparent absurdity of the idea that a Jack the Ripper phantom that oscillates between physical and gaseous form could be to blame rather than Scotty. Honestly, who could blame him for doubting the idea? It does seem surprising that our murderer could be an alien ghost. But, the wonders of space may never cease.<br /><br />Eyeing the fits of our legal authority, Spock clearly begins to suspect his odd behavior. But, unfortunately, we then immediately after receive our first blight on Spock's character. He announces that he suspects the Ripper phantom attacks women because it feeds on fear, and women are more prone to terror then are men, they being weaker in emotional constitution than men are. Oh Spock! Do you really believe such things? I realize all the women you encounter wear dresses so short we can see their bum, and shoes so tall they're probably really are more afraid all the time than the men surrounding them --afraid of falling on their heels, and flashing their bum, that is. But, still. I've been holding you as an example of the potential goodness that can be found to love. Socio-political beliefs are part of the balance that it takes to find goodness in another. Please, don't make me doubt you.<br /><br />We might grant Spock escape from such universalizing comments by assuming his remark has social dimensions, rather than him making a claim about anything like "the natural state" of women. If we allow for this, then Spock is a creature of his time, which we must admit, is the late 1960's U.S.A. on planet earth, not the future of outer space. With this in mind, we may maintain our true love for him, even as we are disappointed. Oh dear Spock. Please, be strong. Do not let the poor influences of your social situation ruin your high moral standards. We need you.<br /><br />Back to the episode... Holy dear lord god, <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span>! Our alien presence this time isn't just different from us humans, it's verging on paranormal. It turns out, then, that Star Fleet would have us understand that all things can be explained. What we may take to be unexplained, or even unexplainable, phenomenon need not be ruled out as heresay, but instead might be understood as alien creatures we just don't readily encounter. Our ghost stories, then, might be generated by encounters with alien life forms we simply don't have the scientific means to explain.<br /><br />The crew begins to question the computer regarding patterns of mass murders of women throughout the galaxy and realize that there is a history of mass murders that follow a clear line between Earth, and our episode's planet. They discover too that the last recorded murders occurred on the planet the legal authority supposedly originated from. In the midst of questioning the legal authority, then, now the main suspect, his body collapses, immediately dead, and we discover the Jack the Ripper phantom has escaped from controlling the body, and taken flown into the ship's computer, thereby taking control of the entire Enterprise. That's right, we have a murderous phantom at loose in the ship trying to instill fear and terror through out the crew.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYsV7_f7RLj3vG62LdXbEqsJyQNlm6X0EJJowPXfAcz4JtRE4AWuPRGQay3ssy8ogbnxKSNChWgVjIMBXW9GXYuIFqnUMav5drhx1lDQdTku_XQMskIiHse3aqNwkcCTtKvCWyVUexbAT/s1600-h/wolf2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYsV7_f7RLj3vG62LdXbEqsJyQNlm6X0EJJowPXfAcz4JtRE4AWuPRGQay3ssy8ogbnxKSNChWgVjIMBXW9GXYuIFqnUMav5drhx1lDQdTku_XQMskIiHse3aqNwkcCTtKvCWyVUexbAT/s400/wolf2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439404251841687218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Jack the Ripper Phantom ReAnimating the Body of the Planet's Legal Authority and Feeding Off a Female Crew Member's Fear</span></div><br />Kirk, McCoy and Spock administer giddy-producing tranquilizers to the entire ship's population, thus avoiding the potential production of fear or terror entirely. Spock then instructs the ship's computer to work on the number pi, thus immobilizing the phantom's ability to utilize the ship, since the computer is otherwise engaged. As a result, the phantom rushes out of the computer, and is able to reanimate the dead body of the planet's legal authority. Quickly, Kirk and Spock tranquilize the body, and then beam it out into space with the widest possible dispersal. Spock then explains that the phantom's consciousness may continue to exist in separate tiny molecules of thought spread all over space, but it will die eventually.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></div>To close our episode Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Spock all beam down together to the planet in order to investigate that cafe where all the women are so... so... so.... Again, we never do hear exactly what they are. But it is clear, that thanks to their giddy producing tranquilizers the men of our crew are able to quickly forget the horror instilled in women of the episode and go back to thinking of women as for their pleasure, rather than in need of their protection.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-85516192940898155212010-02-13T09:33:00.000-08:002010-02-13T09:50:35.811-08:00How To Have a Star Trek Valentine's DayFollowing are my suggestions for what to do for a good quality Star Trek Valentine's Day, with a little help from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a>.<br /><br />1. Carve the name of your true love (yourself) into a tree, and commemorate the action on a t-shirt:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaSPJXqbW9hL1v7n-qh4aKreJNqzYWnCMR5uOipMCTRyWD0WhxofpcugpVrCknxp6PnPHrDnOEGLafBMsimW1R29Dsj_NAz18D-aFQ5lHlgAjmEtUApzMzymk5q-GAVi1Nkf7_XoZbmnf/s1600-h/il_430xN.115517386.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTaSPJXqbW9hL1v7n-qh4aKreJNqzYWnCMR5uOipMCTRyWD0WhxofpcugpVrCknxp6PnPHrDnOEGLafBMsimW1R29Dsj_NAz18D-aFQ5lHlgAjmEtUApzMzymk5q-GAVi1Nkf7_XoZbmnf/s400/il_430xN.115517386.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437783020334884066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38382194&ref=sr_list_4&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">peanutbutterandjelly</a> on Etsy</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">2. Document your allegiance on all love notes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz9XlZ3bHK8CZ1gmekSlgQNOyGrgAAxdegNnE5IjwxBlNUi_G9gnOSMMBGUWMqFkNJBUyj8pwaRw0G1_YDv2WCF7IpN0LWP0OlBlOwr97deHIYE7volNsEQSGVCEcz9Ye04gpHrCxwe1-C/s1600-h/il_430xN.123145428.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz9XlZ3bHK8CZ1gmekSlgQNOyGrgAAxdegNnE5IjwxBlNUi_G9gnOSMMBGUWMqFkNJBUyj8pwaRw0G1_YDv2WCF7IpN0LWP0OlBlOwr97deHIYE7volNsEQSGVCEcz9Ye04gpHrCxwe1-C/s400/il_430xN.123145428.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437783919804316418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40623725&ref=sr_list_3&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">Nerd Notes</a> on Etsy<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieyyfak7yvO1JxPD4pZLopQWIUqxU8VqtDhT8HK9Xsosn14IbT2DmjF7fiQdt0NLvDwEY4tx0_z7kclwn4OlfQdr0MbQmh9S3r7wiHCNauPUrifiITgOTr66I5Q7GzeL2rkws1PG-HEr9Y/s1600-h/il_430xN.123145438.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieyyfak7yvO1JxPD4pZLopQWIUqxU8VqtDhT8HK9Xsosn14IbT2DmjF7fiQdt0NLvDwEY4tx0_z7kclwn4OlfQdr0MbQmh9S3r7wiHCNauPUrifiITgOTr66I5Q7GzeL2rkws1PG-HEr9Y/s400/il_430xN.123145438.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437783829140849378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40623731&ref=sr_list_2&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">Nerd Notes</a> on Etsy<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">3. Play Dress Up:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3A5LtfGJOSVnE2uPp0qQE6sysSTr4d6Fm-1vvXajTg-_DcfCoHxY3wt1we-7A9bvAli6D-Ny2vdk8x4tHFbDjy0vHOrOlw30n7NR39cX1YdhZFyZz5hr6ErF22oOwfOmFsAahUmf2H7a/s1600-h/il_430xN.90710991.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3A5LtfGJOSVnE2uPp0qQE6sysSTr4d6Fm-1vvXajTg-_DcfCoHxY3wt1we-7A9bvAli6D-Ny2vdk8x4tHFbDjy0vHOrOlw30n7NR39cX1YdhZFyZz5hr6ErF22oOwfOmFsAahUmf2H7a/s400/il_430xN.90710991.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437785568909792658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31006543&ref=sr_list_17&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=5&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">Panda Sewing Boutique</a> on Etsy<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">4. Freely declare your feelings:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTODXjZid8FZHTXiXk4qpy1wm33vyQrHotDTG7REfVQEkeqFiqEcIR5CXdEkoHpustYcYuOoXGVAbNnvylmdWoA2hLqwq_iSUcGH5f1uWeI51Unt0uRZpoJL4TdxWxei0RWFmEbcaO7oc/s1600-h/il_430xN.93973285.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTODXjZid8FZHTXiXk4qpy1wm33vyQrHotDTG7REfVQEkeqFiqEcIR5CXdEkoHpustYcYuOoXGVAbNnvylmdWoA2hLqwq_iSUcGH5f1uWeI51Unt0uRZpoJL4TdxWxei0RWFmEbcaO7oc/s400/il_430xN.93973285.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437786280982868242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31006543&ref=sr_list_17&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=5&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">knitoramaa</a> on Etsy</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGaGKQzc9cKkhhRnlTP5yTveGCup8T8HIBBu_ewUdQ-zHnjKzgYFd8xAvUmVJKtRZpZYwdHdsWwLWhfkbs7p6thWrgdQSiOulGW0sFj7RU61kjE33Bid5tuqWF5iwbMynnDYTIDMTI4DB/s1600-h/il_430xN.122581930.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGaGKQzc9cKkhhRnlTP5yTveGCup8T8HIBBu_ewUdQ-zHnjKzgYFd8xAvUmVJKtRZpZYwdHdsWwLWhfkbs7p6thWrgdQSiOulGW0sFj7RU61kjE33Bid5tuqWF5iwbMynnDYTIDMTI4DB/s400/il_430xN.122581930.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437786288770536562" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40458545&ref=sr_list_7&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">paintnpatches</a> on Etsy</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">5. And finally, snuggle up with your Sweet Little Love Monkey:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDkOGt8XFB0xvzVqEHwa9Jk5-y5ZSC0_lhfYicJz_39RVtEkoCsjJBdKC9j_oJpVXBYP5wUKtQBWfoqhNDU-EGVqrHg3J7VvLIpYTl6-2Mz0vlODNvjFvn2oWcfpTSS_QwFRUw8A-241r/s1600-h/il_430xN.122774659.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDkOGt8XFB0xvzVqEHwa9Jk5-y5ZSC0_lhfYicJz_39RVtEkoCsjJBdKC9j_oJpVXBYP5wUKtQBWfoqhNDU-EGVqrHg3J7VvLIpYTl6-2Mz0vlODNvjFvn2oWcfpTSS_QwFRUw8A-241r/s400/il_430xN.122774659.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437784644819954578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Available from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40515054&ref=sr_list_21&&ga_search_query=star+trek&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title">Siren's Cove</a> on Etsy<br /></span></div></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-63596367254349309492010-02-12T19:27:00.001-08:002010-02-12T20:54:42.600-08:00Clouds, Guilt, and Evil Evil Sentient Vapor<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 42: Obsession</span><span><br /><br />The episode "Obsession" opens with an impressively fake looking shimmery rock set. Spock, Kirk, and three never-before-seen red shirts are on the planet surface in order to confirm the presence of this clearly staged rock. In the midst of the examination Kirk reveals seeing it there is incredible. The rock, we discover, is 21.5 times as hard as diamond.<br /><br />Shortly after Kirk calls up to Scotty on the Enterprise to relay the findings, a mysterious vapor begins to appear out the backside of the rock. From their perspective Kirk and Spock are unable to see the activity. Strangely, the vapor appears to direct itself, and in fact, towards our away team. Spock uses his phaser to break off a rock sample, and immediately the vapor retracts itself into the back side of the rock. Then, even more surprisingly, just as Kirk picks up the specimen and hands it to Kirk, he starts rapsing poetic about the smell of honey ... on... a ... dis... tant ... planet ... so ... many years... ago.<br /><br />And so, with this episode we are introduced, finally, to one of the classic speaking behaviors of Captain Kirk often made fun of in imitations of his character, and even by the actor William Shatner himself. That is, his tendency to use extended speech with pauses between each or every couple words. The episode "Obsession" lets us experience it for the first time in <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> history.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />Somehow Kirk has sensed the presence of the strange cloud that we viewers saw before, even though he had not seen it himself. It turns out Kirk recognizes the presence of the cloud through its smell. The smell he senses, we discover, is a gaseous substance that has only ever been found through controlled laboratory experiments. The sensors, then, begin to also detect the same gaseous substance, but the sensors also find that it disappears just as people record it too. It would seem that this cloud is aware of its surroundings, and can control its very molecular structure.<br /><br />In the midst of searching the planet on their own and scanning for the cloud, it appears and surrounds the red-shirts. They begin to choke and collapse. One of them manages to radio to Captain Kirk before being consumed entirely. Running to them, Kirk and Spock discover two of the away team members already dead. The one that had made contact with them is still partially alive.<br /><br />It turns out Kirk has encountered this lethal cloud before. His earlier mention of its smell was actually him recalling a still unrevealed prior encounter with the noxious cloud. Without Spock even having to examine their bodies, Kirk tells him all the red corpusles will be gone. Spock asks, "What is it, Captain?" And Kirk's stuttering... be...tween ... each word... voice... returns. He dramatically, and with elaborate pausing, tells us, "Something that shouldn't exist, but it does."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My god! A sentient vapor that can suck the red blood cells right out of your body, and attack before you even sense its presence. The horror in this episode is truly great!<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLZ8kfSL60VQdc8H4R1nS4uOBj47LVDVikgr5sYVWiqrREn5i1pLtPQbdiEang3saTfXM73eo7lJnUGO1uWqcWgMJUMj6tpjlqpVhEAkqo6FkUAhcGtafNcS53yCYLJ0xMYBbpHSeEUjo/s1600-h/292px-Dikironium_cloud_creature.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLZ8kfSL60VQdc8H4R1nS4uOBj47LVDVikgr5sYVWiqrREn5i1pLtPQbdiEang3saTfXM73eo7lJnUGO1uWqcWgMJUMj6tpjlqpVhEAkqo6FkUAhcGtafNcS53yCYLJ0xMYBbpHSeEUjo/s400/292px-Dikironium_cloud_creature.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437583396715144642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Evil, Evil, Truly Evil, Captain-Kirk-Speech-Pause Inducing Cloud<br /></span></div><span><br />McCoy is confounded by the seemingly impossible death of the two men. Doesn't he realize by now (the middle of season 2) that whenever a never before seen red shirted crew member travels in away team to a new planet surface they simply die? Surely by now he's aware of the rules of his own universe! But, no. He is confused. His confusion causes Kirk to inform him that McCoy should examine the materials available in previously occurring similar deaths 11-years ago on the U.S.S. Farogat. (Note: this is the ship Spock had originally assigned Uhura to in the recent <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> movie before she demanded to be reposted to the Flagship Enterprise.) McCoy appears shocked, and skeptical of Kirk's information. It would seem that Kirk providing such information makes him suspicious somehow.<br /><br />To add to the now suspicious behavior of Kirk, he goes on to demand that the unconscious ensign that had been injured on the planet surface be awakened. Kirk questions him immediately after arousal. He wants to hear what happened during the attack on the planet surface. It turns out all Kirk wants to know is if the ensign had smelled honey (the smell Kirk associated with the cloud on the planet surface), and whether or not he sensed an intelligent presence. In the midst of discussion the ensign again falls into sleep, and shortly after dies.<br /><br />Kirk then goes on to discuss the situation with Spock. Spock's scans of the planet surface show no evidence of any life (intelligent) forms. Through discussion Kirk begins to believe that the thing they are searching for can actually change its substance so that its very molecular structure can change. Though we'd seen evidence of this when the security personnel were attacked, Kirk and Spock were not exposed to the information.<br /><br />A new security member enters the bridge, and we discover that he is the son of someone Kirk had known before. Further, he is friends with the ensign who has just died in sick bay. Kirk takes advantage of the situation to challenge the security personnel to accompany him to the surface. There the cloud appears and again successfully attacks two of the officers that had gone on the away team. Again, they are men we had not seen before. The new security officer, however, has survived.<br /><br />Shocked by the events the away team returns to the Enterprise. There we discover through Kirk's voice over that 11-years ago the U.S.S. Farogat was decimated by an unidentified creature, which he thinks is identical to the cloud they are now investigating. He believes too that Spock and McCoy are doubtful of the suggestion, and also of Kirk's decision to remain behind on the planet. On the ship Spock and McCoy question the new security officer. In the midst of the questioning, Kirk becomes quite upset and it is discovered that the new security officer had hesitated in the midst of confrontation with the cloud. Kirk is clearly upset and so relieves the man of all duties, and also confines him to quarters. Then he demands that the ship will remain in orbit further. The crew begins to wonder about Kirk's strange behaviors. He is clearly obsessed, just as the episode name suggests.<br /><br />Spock turns to McCoy to discuss his findings from the tapes for the USS Farogat. It turns out the entire crew, including the captain, were killed on a mission that included only one surviving member -- an ensign on his first deep space mission. The captain, we discover, was the father of the security team member now confined to his quarters, and the surviving ensign is our own James T. Kirk. After the discussion, McCoy turns to Kirk, who is clearly troubled over his experiences from 11-years ago. We discover that Kirk believes the cloud is evil and must be destroyed, and that he could have actually killed it had he not delayed in his first encounter with it 11-years ago. In other words, Kirk takes himself to be responsible for the death of the Farogat crew, and the survival of the creature now 11-years later.<br /><br />We see here, then, Kirk in a kind of human weakness not yet shown through the series. His behavior is actually threatening his command post. Spock and Kirk are beginning to suspect he is unfit to lead the ship. In being questioned Kirk calms himself, and again attempts to convince Spock and McCoy of the situation -- the situation, in Kirk's mind, is that if this is the same creature as what killed the Farogat crew 11 years ago, then it poses a grave threat to the entire galaxy. Spock and McCoy doubt the presence of the cloud, but believe that Kirk is still reasonable. Then immediately after the discussion, Chekov announces that a gaseous cloud has left the planet, and in fact that it matches the descriptions Kirk has given for the 11-year old cloud. However, the vapor is now on the loose, traveling at high speeds across the galaxy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">ALERT! ALERT! A LETHAL, EVIL, AND SENTIENT GASEOUS CLOUD IS ON THE LOOSE!!</span><br /><br />The Enterprise chases after the gaseous cloud with Kirk intent on trying to kill it. In the midst of pursuit, the cloud stops. The Enterprise faces it and begins to fire phasers. The phasers, however, prove ineffective. We discover, actually, that none of the weapons easily used by the Enterprise will kill the cloud. In the midst of attack, the vapor successfully enters the ship, and crewmen begin to die.<br /><br />As a result of battle, however, Spock becomes convinced that the cloud truly is sentient. Spock goes, then, to the security officers room to inform him of the situation, and to work to convince him that there was nothing further he could have done on the planet to stop the cloud that attacked the other crew members. In the midst of the conversation, however, the cloud enters through the room ventilation, and, quickly, Spock shoves the security officer out of the room, thereby saving his life. It appears that our beloved Spock will die, but we discover that Spock's blood is based on copper, and it has been the iron in human blood that the creature has gone after. Further, the copper of Spock's blood would also explain why McCoy is always calling Spock "green blooded."<br /><br />In the midst of the extended encounter, Kirk comes to realize that their traditional weapons are simply ineffective against the creature. He then makes sure to convince the security officer of the same thing in order to relieve him of any guilt he may feel over the other crew members being killed by the cloud. In so doing he reveals that he also knows now that his own action couldn't have saved the Farogat 11-years ago. Now, he also somehow understands that he must return to the planet on which the Farogat had been attacked originally. There they will attempt to destroy the creature by luring it with human hemoglobin, and then attacking it with anti-matter. It is an outrageously dangerous plan, however. The security officer that lost his father to the attack on the Farogat, and Kirk volunteer themselves to detonate the attack. But, in the midst of setting up the trap for the cloud, they find themselves under extreme circumstances as the vapor approaches them for their iron-laden blood, instead of the hemoglobin. They manage to beam out just as the anti-matter detonates around the creature.<br /><br />We know now that the creature has been killed, but what of our brave men? Unfortunately, the transporter has difficulty operating within the anti-matter explosion shockwaves and it quickly begins to look like Kirk and the brave security officer may not make it back to the ship. McCoy takes the occasion to complain about human molecules being spread all over the universe, and then, finally the men arrive through the transportation device.<br /><br />Ah, relief. The evil, sentient, gaseous cloud monster has been destroyed. Kirk has recovered from the guilt he's carried for 11 whole years, and as a result, he is now also able to befriend the son of his former mentor--the Captain that died while leading the Farogat.<br /></span>hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-9326080361310315942010-02-07T17:45:00.001-08:002010-02-07T17:51:11.696-08:00Klingon Linguistic Epiphany<span style="font-weight: bold;">Kaplah!</span> (Klingon for "Success!" or "Eureka!")<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbkv0eEpaOMmOPRK8MA5KEYwCKYB7_JPGJ0HNjF5EVmIKgSq25Wkvig_DlUMqwDVOzFZh0_42-TGsJfoS2RajXzLscqc6iktkDCqJ6ET6L8OAZb2mEFJw88CLviLeQcz5Hc7KwPhFwab9/s1600-h/The-Klingon-Dictionary-English_4B27CC7E.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbkv0eEpaOMmOPRK8MA5KEYwCKYB7_JPGJ0HNjF5EVmIKgSq25Wkvig_DlUMqwDVOzFZh0_42-TGsJfoS2RajXzLscqc6iktkDCqJ6ET6L8OAZb2mEFJw88CLviLeQcz5Hc7KwPhFwab9/s400/The-Klingon-Dictionary-English_4B27CC7E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435682956860567570" border="0" /></a><br />An anonymous friend had the above gift sent to me via U.S. Post--<span style="font-style: italic;">The Klingon Dictionary</span>, complete with not only translation but also linguistic structure of the Klingon language. My goodness! When we hit those episodes where Klingons start finally making more regular appearance, or, even more especially the early <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> movies, we'll be amply ready for incorporating Klingon into our posts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Buy' ngop!</span> (Klingon for "that's great news!")hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-60199078175705624972010-01-24T17:40:00.000-08:002010-01-24T17:44:25.561-08:00The 10 Year Old Perspective: Rapping Out the Deadly Years<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 41: The Deadly Years</span><br /><br />Imagine this as a rap song:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;">Captain Kirk gets old and that's no lie.<br />So does McCoy, but it doesn't make us cry.<br /><br />Everybody's fine in the end.<br />A few people died, but not everybody's dead.<br /><br />Bum bum boof ba too too too phuu boo<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span>(this is the beat boxing section)<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />That is all for today, but we'll be back ready to play.<br />Word.<br /><br />Peace.<br /></span></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-12487663453529848542010-01-24T16:32:00.000-08:002010-01-24T17:40:26.718-08:00Old Man Syndrome, Avoiding Love, and the Difficulty of Letting Down Captain James T. Kirk<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 41: The Deadly Years</span><br /><br />Our new episode opens on a remarkably purple and orange planet, with Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov and some never before seen woman serving as an away team visiting a planet meant to be inhabited by Star Fleet personnel living as colony members. When they arrive, surprisingly, no one is around to greet them. The crew is suprised, and Kirk sends them off in search of members of the colony. Chekov enters a building and instead finds a kind of visitation shrine for a very aged, dead body. Shocked, and screaming, he calls in the rest of the team. Soon after, two almost-infirm, and very old-looking colony members enter. Soon after revealing they can barely hear, the colony members also reveal they are only 28 and 29. The colony members are all either dead or dying of old age.<br /><br />How could the colony members have aged so quickly? Why are all of the ship crew with the ability to actually lead the ship continually serving as away team members in the midst of crucial missions, thereby leaving the most prominant galaxy class starship in Star Fleet, the Enterprise, ineffectively manned? Who is at the con? Will Kirk find some way to rip his shirt off when the episode theme seems to have no such need? These are the questions facing the star ship Enterprise on her crucial mission to seek out new life.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyotMUYZZvdpeZKWh7a6CCs7gS4lNv96QBuXbvl4tnObNA8B6Bdwdkbk-97AFHr3kQ4LJN_4wdS9fIFGURcRO__orM6aZxpp_Grs6AAnCO_zp1Ci2zpNePJ0_LExSAGRQmBT188zhPN0OY/s1600-h/startrekstylus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyotMUYZZvdpeZKWh7a6CCs7gS4lNv96QBuXbvl4tnObNA8B6Bdwdkbk-97AFHr3kQ4LJN_4wdS9fIFGURcRO__orM6aZxpp_Grs6AAnCO_zp1Ci2zpNePJ0_LExSAGRQmBT188zhPN0OY/s320/startrekstylus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430482389046775234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Kirk slowly aging, and struggling with facing mortality.<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />Shortly after returning to the ship, we discover Kirk is facing a past love in this episode. Their jobs kept them apart. While she does some sort of lab-type research, he is a star ship captain. Their lives were incompatible, and so they called off their romance. In the midst of reconciling, Kirk is called away to the bridge. Oh! What a re-enactment of their earlier romance.<br /><br />Returning to the bridge, we discover that Kirk is repeating himself, and the unnamed woman from the away team is having trouble hearing. Strange! My god! The crew is already suffering the symptoms of older age. In the middle of our facing this horror, Kirk manages to take his shirt off for us, but in doing so he seems to throw out his back, thereby revealing further symptoms of aging. The entire away team, in fact, except for Chekov, seems to be suffering aging--achy joints, graying hair, reduced hearing, imbalanced metabolism. The drinking of prune juice doesn't seem to be an issue. But poor Scotty has had a heavy dose of graying powder adding to his hair and eyebrows.<br /><br />Analysing the away team, McCoy realizes that the entire team seems to be aging 30 years for each day. Spock too is aging fast, but being Vulcan the symptoms are not showing his symptoms as quickly as the humans. The symptoms include not merely physical problems, but also reduction of mental faculties.<br /><br />In the midst of his aging, the woman previously declared a love interest for Kirk stays around, clearly worried about her man. The previously unseen woman member of the away team, however, has devolved into an emotional wreck, and aged most quickly of all the people that had traveled to the planet surface.<br /><br />The love interest for Kirk reveals that not only will she assist in solving the research needed for saving Kirk, she also still needs to express her love for Kirk, and to allow that they will solve their problem. Kirk, however, does not know how to accept his age in the midst of her amour. "What are you offering me? Love, or a going away present?" She is shocked, but Kirk walks away.<br /><br />Have you noticed yet? There is not much plot driving this episode. Instead, the episode is all about watching our crucial crew members, most especially, face the reality associated with mortality, and reduced facilties. But further, the episode seems to be about Kirk illustrating his own inability to accept genuine, reciprocal romantic relationship.<br /><br />Spock, the genius intellectual problem solver of the series, enters, finally, with the cause of the aging --a comet that had passed through the area released previously-undetectable radiation over the planet, to which the away team was exposed.<br /><br />As time goes on, a commodor that has been in the background of the entire episode, approaches Spock to ask for assistance in relieving Kirk of command. He asks Spock to take control of the Enterprise, which Spock denies. The commodor then demands that the First Officer, Spock, must, according to regulations, convene a competency hearing regarding Kirk's ability to continue leading the Enterprise. Spock accepts that regulations demand he must comply, though he is not pleased about the situation.<br /><br />Before the hearing, the unnamed woman that had been on the away team dies. McCoy realizes that her faster metabolism caused her to age, and thus die, more quickly than the other members. McCoy says, then, that they are all going to die in less than a few days, perhaps even in only hours. The hearing begins. In the midst of the hearing, Kirk throws fits, his love interest looks on, Sulu is strained for having to speak ill of his captain, Uhura too is pained for revealing that her captain had difficulties, and the woman crewmembers dress-like uniforms appear shorter than they did in the first season. In some cases, the lower curve of their behind is actually visible. Least plausibly, all of the medical personnel that could be researching a solution to the rapid aging are not researching possible solutions, but instead are present in the hearing. We also still don't know why Chekov is not aging.<br /><br />In relieving Captain Kirk of duty, and with all senior officers rapidly aging, the commodore assumes command of the Enterprise, even though he has never before led a star ship. His first ruling is for Sulu to set a course across the Romulun neutral zone, thereby immediately threatening the safety of the entire ship. Commodore Stalker has never had a field command, and thereby does not really understand what amounts to reasonable leadership. Spock notifies Kirk of the situation, and Kirk shouts that Spock has betrayed him. Kirk's love interest, however, remains with Kirk, attempting to comfort him in her <a href="http://www.emiliopucci.com/">Pucci</a>-esque patterned gown.<br /><br />Finally, McCoy, Kirk, and Spock begin to realize that Chekov had experienced one crucial difference from the rest of them --he'd been intensely scared from seeing the dead body. Adrenaline would have coursed through his body. McCoy realizes the adrenaline must have saved Chekov from the effects of the radiation sickness. Spock, and an associate doctor get to work at developing an appropriate adrenalin compound.<br /><br />In the meantime, the ship has entered the neutral zone, and is immediately attacked by Romulun's. Asking for instruction from the commodore, he quickly shows he has no idea what to do. Kirk must be tied down to keep him from rushing to the bridge. Spock walks in with rough concotion, telling them that it could "cure or kill." Kirk demands to take the first test shot, knowing that he will die soon anyway from age. Taking the shot is the only chance to save the ship. If he survives, he will be able to rush to the bridge and get them out of the horrible situation. The commodore is giving up, as the Romulun's threaten the very survival of the Enterprise. Suddenly, Kirk rushes in, his former youthful appearance restored, and quickly saves the ship. The commodore is stunned, impressed, and embarassed. The Enterprise escapes, and departs from the neutral zone.<br /><br />McCoy rushes in, notifies them that Scotty too has recovered, and tells Spock the shot is ready for him. Kirk's loves interest walks in, and Kirk quickly hands over command to Sulu.hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-28230002600909075262010-01-20T19:23:00.000-08:002010-01-20T19:27:07.418-08:00The 10 Year Old Perspective: The Baby Who Raised A Colony<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 40: Friday's Child</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdT6gCz2z79QSSjlzZJxe1uZI27fb2h47oymh1S4a4oiVh_Qg0lQmxJGfHJ8GHFxrxT-XM7gdXbB7bZtANRAfcvys5vRMvIN6PCmCfhyphenhyphendclz2gQxwxE9H7DjTgMiCSB8Whw4cDyJdlN5J/s1600-h/2103353052_a05aa49398.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdT6gCz2z79QSSjlzZJxe1uZI27fb2h47oymh1S4a4oiVh_Qg0lQmxJGfHJ8GHFxrxT-XM7gdXbB7bZtANRAfcvys5vRMvIN6PCmCfhyphenhyphendclz2gQxwxE9H7DjTgMiCSB8Whw4cDyJdlN5J/s320/2103353052_a05aa49398.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429029363553678258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Nice Woman<br /></span></div><br />This episode was about how this nice woman had a kid who apparently somehow was McCoy's, which we never find out how, and the baby ends up like being a colony leader cause his dad died and so on and so forth. And that's pretty much it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-42793284134603924072010-01-20T18:27:00.000-08:002010-01-20T19:22:50.568-08:00Rick-Rack, Babies and Doctor McCoy<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 40: Friday's Child</span><br /><br />Combine faux fur, what we colloquially call "Chinese fighting stars", a "survival of the fittest" ethic, and a ton of brightly colored fabric and you've got the full complexity of the alien's from a planet Star Fleet hopes to mine. Negotiating with these aliens is sure to be risky, and in fact within the first three minutes of "Friday's Child" a never-before-seen red shirted crew member is hit in the chest with one of those fighting stars. Why? How? The innate racism as represented by relations with the Klingon empire caused the crew member to attempt fire on a Klingon agent that unexpectedly appeared on the planet.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkioPK7xdPQOrSOq3b6GBnMFfCOfREx5ohvi5RaBatIHN4G3MpjfxSVKAEWHF4rsSUlsgkh0FG2lwJQDnbYQmemyr4mtW_lWNZCGHOsPxW0ZFamxvU4paJ8Hb0xCEYWrEToHBD3M0TPJYr/s1600-h/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkioPK7xdPQOrSOq3b6GBnMFfCOfREx5ohvi5RaBatIHN4G3MpjfxSVKAEWHF4rsSUlsgkh0FG2lwJQDnbYQmemyr4mtW_lWNZCGHOsPxW0ZFamxvU4paJ8Hb0xCEYWrEToHBD3M0TPJYr/s320/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429028237089812946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">McCoy making contact with his patient<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />The episode begins aboard a planet that Star Fleet hopes to mine. However, a less advanced alien species resides upon the planet; a species that tends towards violence, and while quite hospitable towards guests, also prefers to do things on their own way, on their own.<br /><br />The setting on the planet closely resembles that of typical Hollywood representations of nomadic West-Asian communities from the same time period. The people live in fabric draped wall tents, and follow a leader resembling that of a Khan. But they also wear clothing that closely resembles carpets, and fabric decorated with rick-rack.<br /><br />Scotty, Chekov, and Sulu have been left in charge of the Enterprise, while Spock, Kirk, and McCoy negotiate with the Khan planetside. On the planet, a fight erupts as one faction wishes to side with the Klingons, and that of the Khan intends to side with Star Fleet. On board the Enterprise a ship is spotted, just as a distress call from what sounds like an earth vessel is also heard. The spotted ship would seem to be a Klingon ship attacking an earth freighter.<br /><br />On the planet's surface the fight has resulted in the over through of the original Khan. We would expect that the new Khan would turn against Kirk, and also kill the pregnant wife of the former leader. But instead the new leader expresses his new found appreciation for Kirk's boldness. Just as the wife of the former leader would be killed, Kirk steps in to stop her murder. We discover, however, that planet custom states that no man may touch the wife of a leader, lest he be killed. Kirk, then, is threatened to death. The away teams' communicators and weapons have been taken away, and so they are both unable to contact the ship, or receive communication from the Enterprise either.<br /><br />The Enterprise must respond to the distress call from the freighter, and so leave orbit of the planet, and thereby also leave the landing party. Being held prisoner, along with the wife of the former leader, the away team manages to escape from their security guards with the wife. They tell her they intend to bring her to their ship. She agrees she would rather live than simply follow her people's laws. Our crew has into the mountains, and gathered knives to defend themselves. Escaping into the mountains, the crew convinces the woman to undergo treatment for injuries she sustained in the fight over leadership. During the examination McCoy realizes that the woman could go into labor at any time. The woman realizes she appreciates physical contact in a way she couldn't have known before, she the laws forebade anyone touching her before.<br /><br />While McCoy makes contact with the wife of the former leader, Kirk and Spock investigate the surrounding area for possibility of escape, and defense. The soldiers of the local area approach. Spock realizes he can produce a sound vibration to cause a rock slide on top of them, which of course he does. In the slide many of the local men, including the new leader are caught by collapsing rocks. The Klingon manages to leap out of the way, and then kills one of the local men stealing some sort of communicator, and also a weapon in the process. The rock slide succeeds at slowing the men down from finding our runaway crew, but they simply continue along a different route. Kirk knows they will find them eventually, and the woman is sure to give birth eventually. The woman needs help, but she allows only McCoy to touch her. They manage to bring her to a cave where she could more safely give birth.<br /><br />Meantime, on board the Enterprise, the freighter has disappeared. It would seem the distress call was a ploy to get our ship away from its captain. Scotty realizes he must quickly return to help their captain.<br /><br />Getting into the cave, the woman almost immediately begins to go into labor. She allows McCoy to touch her, while Spock and Kirk go out to try and find both weapons and water. In trying to help the woman give birth McCoy discovers that the woman does not want her child. She explains though it is because in her culture the child belongs to the husband. McCoy attempts to convince her that the child belongs to her, and that they will bring her to the Enterprise for help. She refuses, however, and instead promises the child to McCoy. McCoy attempts to convince her otherwise, while Kirk and Spock create bow and arrows from nearby trees. The child is born. The woman announces the baby is theirs--hers and McCoys.<br /><br />The Enterprise rushes back to the planet in attempt to help our away team. Inside the cave, McCoy falls asleep, and the woman knocks him out with a rock then runs away. Woman's liberation? McCoy awakes to discover her gone with the child left behind. Now our crew expects that the woman will return to the warriors to warn them of the location of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Afterall, released of the former leader's baby, she is no longer any threat to the new leader. Kirk and Spock go after her, just as the Enterprise is intercepted by a Klingon warship.<br /><br />The warriors approach the location of Kirk and Spock, but before intercepting "the Earth men" they are found by the woman who tells them that both the child and the Earth men are dead. As the wife of a leader she is allowed to demand the warriors to return. The warriors are going to return in honor of her word, but the Klingon runs ahead after Kirk and Spock so that Kirk must fire his arrow on him. The leader of the tribes, however, gives the woman back her life, rather than taking it as the law would demand. In doing so, he must give up his life. He does so so that the Klingon will attack him, thereby giving his people the chance to kill the Klingon. His plan succeeds. Both the Klingon and the leader are killed.<br /><br />Scotty and his security detail arrive. McCoy returns the baby to the woman. Her baby is the new leader of the ten tribes. The woman, then, acts as the representative of the new leader, and the Enterprise crew succeeds at securing mining rights to the planet.<br /><br />The episode ends with us discovering that the new leader (baby) of the tribes of the planet has been named Leonard James Ak-ma-Ar (after McCoy and Kirk).hawkbrwnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311841923403191817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7275592728675051518.post-76828711445709536282010-01-18T19:56:00.000-08:002010-01-18T20:18:53.555-08:00The 10 Year Old Perspective: All's Well That Ends Well (Journey to Babel)<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOS: Episode 39: Journey to Babel</span><br /><br />In a lot of ways, I find this show quite dramatic. And I also find it quite hard to understand in several ways. But then again I'm only ten.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlL72lkyGaBj2cdHmR9kIkvh53GNaMdk020xCil5ixeFFSwxIjxnbE25PkmGp0CF0yvoU86nlrZwFa-18SicL9VjzLyXUMobyOlttkkT5gXZ0B2KsU6x9IWD9yhZhZdkxd0UdO-sliwMuw/s1600-h/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlL72lkyGaBj2cdHmR9kIkvh53GNaMdk020xCil5ixeFFSwxIjxnbE25PkmGp0CF0yvoU86nlrZwFa-18SicL9VjzLyXUMobyOlttkkT5gXZ0B2KsU6x9IWD9yhZhZdkxd0UdO-sliwMuw/s320/mars_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428300366344981698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Pig Nose Guy<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode Summary</span><br />The show starts out with Vulcans coming to the Enterprise. The Ambassador of Vulcans and his wife come to the ship. Kirk tells Spock to show them around but the Ambassador says he wants a different guide. Kirk seems to be very suspicious about this so he says to Spock, "Spock, why don't you beam down to the planet to see your parents." So Spock replies, "Didn't you know the Ambassadors are my parents." And Kirk is like, "Ohhh!" So after Kirk has given the Vulcans a tour of the Enterprise, they go to the engine room, and Kirk tells Spock to show the Ambassador and his wife the computer technology. And the wife says, "After all these years of being around humans, you still haven't learned to smile." And Spock says, "Well, smiling is a human trait." And she says, "Well you are part human."<br /><br />At kind of like a celebration party for a meeting of all the aliens getting together, the Ambassador, slash Spock's dad gets in a fight with some piggish figure that we never learn the name of. Many hours later the Ambassador of the pig figure thingees was found dead with his neck snapped like a twig. Spock says the way it was snapped was a Vulcan practice. That they used to use as a ritual to logically kill somebody. So then the only suspect would be Spock's dad. So they go to his room but he's not there and his wife says that he had been out meditating because he was about to retire. He comes back and he has an attack so they bring him to sick bay and he says he has been attacked three times before, two before they left Vulcan and one while he was meditating, and the last one in his room.<br /><br />Much later in the episode, we find out that there is an alien that has a communication device that is hidden in his antenna and was communicating with the enemy ship. And they blow up the enemy ship but the other alien dies too because he had taken poison. Also, Spock gives up about a fourth of his blood or so for his dad, because his dad was dying. Spock and his dad were okay. But Kirk had also been attacked earlier and the only way for him to get Spock to help his dad was for him to convince Spock that he was okay, but then he did end up taking command instead of giving command down to Scotty, because it was too dangerous. But in the end he did end up having to be in the hospital, and it's strange because Dr. McCoy kept saying "Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shut up! Shut up!" to everybody like Spock, his dad, and Captain Kirk. Then at the end of the show Dr. McCoy said "Well, for once I get the last word." And that's where the show ended.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0