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Not exactly nostalgia, no....

I kinda liked it as a whole, although the stupidity bothered me -- liberalism as imagined by parents who didn't want their five-year old seeing anything nasty. By the standards of the day, though, the coding was remarkable. Smart people were actually running things, and they came from San Francisco, not Dallas or Biloxi, or even New York.

I didn't mind Spock representing intellectuals. I suppose it was the raised eyebrow instead of the lecture that endeared him to me, and given the Pon-Far, or whatever the hell it was called, at least they didn't make him entirely sexless, although he was portrayed as rather spectacularly out of his depth once his id did make an appearance.

Shatner as the man of action, though...God forbid. An American meathead, plain and simple. The casting director should have had him pushed him out of an airlock, and found someone who could be decisive without chewing the arms off his captain's chair.

In an era which produced The Beverly Hillbillies, Mr. Ed, and The Monkees, Star Drek, as we called it then, was bad, but not as bad as it got.

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by: William Timberman @ Fri May 08, 2009 at 21:27:20 PM CDT