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This William Shatner movie is now available from Warner Archive. I had never heard of it, anyone seen it? I would like to watch it, but not sure I want to spend the $19.95 unseen. WHITE COMMANCHE (1968) It's William Shatner vs Shatner in this "Sangria Western" shot between seasons of Star...

I wonder if something got cut in the many script revisions they did or even in editing and they never closed the loop, as it were.

Great letter and great response. It's funny; objectively, I understand that S3 is not as strong as S1 and S2 (especially S1), but I love S3. Although I remember watching the show on occasion with my parents when I was very little, it wasn't until I was in my teens and started watching TOS in...

I think this is an interesting question as most of the episodes I don't care for are pretty much universally disliked. However, I did come up with these: TOS - "Spock's Brain" - I had disdained this episode for years and had not seen it in a long time when the blu-ray of season 3 came out. I...

It's kind of an odd thing to think about a span of time and apply it to a different time. For example, I was just thinking about an improvement I made to my house in the Summer of 2011 and it suddenly struck me that, "Wow, in that same amount of time ST:TOS had come and gone." But three years...

As a total aside, McFarlane recorded a "Sinatra-style" album that I think is rather good. He insisted on recording on analogue tape with the orchestra live to achieve the sound of that era, and used the famous Capitol Records reverb chamber, if I recall correctly. I am not much of a "Family Guy"...

A childhood memory that just came to mind - I was watching "The Changeling" with my parents, and when they attached the anti-grav units to Nomad my Mom very casually and without a hint of wryness said to my Dad, "We need to get a pair of those." She said it so matter-of-factly (she said it like...

A friend of mine and I watched an episode of Voyager last night from the fourth season called "Scientific Method". We really enjoyed it and one of the reasons I liked it was that it seemed like the type of story they would write for TOS. But I am wondering, if anyone here knows the episode, what...

I thought you guys might get a kick out of this house with a home theater decorated like the bridge. http://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/boca-raton/star-trek-inspired-mansion-for-sale-in-boca-raton?hpt=us_bn8

I watched "Into Darkness" this weekend and I liked it better than I did upon first seeing it at the theater. I still don't really consider it "Star Trek", but it is a a fun action adventure movie. What always strikes me about Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto (both of whom I find very appealing, by...

Not that crazy; just look at what has been on Broadway the last few years. They are actually running out of movies to adapt, I think. "Legally Blonde" was really a stretch.

That episode has always bothered me, too, and I have always rationalized it by reasoning that the crew were not sure of what they were dealing with and it was acting aggressively, especially toward the end when it attacked Kirk. David Gerrold wrote in his book about writing "Tribbles" that when...

One attribute of almost every planet visited in any Star Trek franchise is a "One World" government, which is obviously certainly not true here on earth at this point. Who would friendly aliens deal with? They would have very different experiences depending on where they landed. Of course, it is...

Here is another good site: http://www.columbiaranch.net/ Nelson - You are correct; I was talking about the Forty Acres lot. I didn't mean to confuse it with the actual Paramount lot. Typing faster than thinking.

That is so true. There is an episode of Bewitched where they go to Salem, MA, and they used the Boston street. The funny thing is, you could see the fountain in the park, and if they had nudged the camera just a tiny bit to the right you would have been able to see their house all the way back...

The Columbia Ranch, now called the Warner Ranch, is actually a stand-alone lot near Warner Bros. That lot contains the fountain shown in the beginning of FRIENDS, and is the same fountain where they filmed the "Lees of Old Virginia" number in the movie version of 1776. I heard that "Boston...

I watched that show all the time as a kid and when I saw THE APARTMENT for the first time (on the Channel 7 3:30 movie) I was shocked at what a rat he was in that movie!

Thanks, you guys, for mentioning the book, I hadn't heard about it until this thread, but ordered it immediately. My copy came yesterday, and I stayed up much too late reading last night. In a way, it is almost TMI for me; so many things that have become iconic if not legendary were borne of...

Amazon gold box today, TOS all three seasons on blu-ray for 89.00. Scott, it's your chance to go blu for a good price!

I just got home from seeing the new movie. So much faster paced than the TV series or the original cast movies. And with CGI they can do anything. Dazzling to look at, but I miss the old days when DeMille had to figure out how they were going to part the Red Sea and Roddenberry had to figure how...

Since you mention Star Trek VI, I believe that is the only time we see a "galley" on a starship (except for Neelix's improvised one). I recall seeing VI for the first time and being surprised to see pots and pans, etc. I had always thought the idea was that it was all automated.

I redacted my post. Meant in fun. Sorry about that.

Interesting how in the early episodes it seems they ate mostly Jello cubes, but in later episodes (such as Tribbles) it was more traditional food like chicken sandwiches and tomato soup.

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Perhaps Roddenberry's intention at the beginning was that they would really be on their out there, with little to no contact with Earth. It seems like in "The Cage" there is some mention that a message to Earth would take quite a while. As it evolved, the Federation turned out to be more...

Is it ever explicitly stated that they finished their 5-year mission?

I like the McCoy line; McCoy's only way to show "affection", if you will, for Spock is to rib him. On the other hand, I just watched "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" ( a heavy-handed episode IMO - the fast zooms on the red alert make me groan) and when McCoy is treating Lokai and McCoy is...

It is because they have become our family, as real as flesh and blood. Sorry, I'm feeling sentimental, a bit too much Saurian brandy I guess!

This is neither here nor there, but I watched "Journey to Babel" just now (what a great show) and when I put grey matter to it I was startled to realize that episode is Sarek's only appearance in TOS. In only a handful of appearances, mostly in the films, once in the animated series, and twice...

Even when McCoy didn't out and out yell, he was pretty much always irritated with Spock. So, of course, who else could possibly have housed Spock's katra in Search for Spock? The magic, IMO, is that despite the irritation McCoy feels, DeForest Kelley always managed to imply in his acting the...