tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post4649723521559254409..comments2024-03-28T20:00:20.542-07:00Comments on SHADOW OF A DOUBT: Strange New World Just Ahead, or: How to Make a Vulcan Feel at Home (Part 13 of 15)Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-33160547888289347322016-11-24T09:59:15.809-08:002016-11-24T09:59:15.809-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-3555032366985424662016-09-13T08:03:28.919-07:002016-09-13T08:03:28.919-07:00Thank you, Jahn. As for Romulus, yes, I should hav...Thank you, Jahn. As for Romulus, yes, I should have known. I'll make the correction.<br /><br />I'll have more to say about Romulus in an upcoming post, if I finish it.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-42105016058176154492016-09-12T13:43:54.439-07:002016-09-12T13:43:54.439-07:00Nice blog post. Good to find you (on Levine's ...Nice blog post. Good to find you (on Levine's Blog) and your enthusiasm for Star Trek. <br /><br />"Romula" didn't sound right (as the Romulans' home-planet) so I checked a Wikipedia entry:<br /><br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulan<br /><br />This claims (without a citation) that their two planets Romulus and Remus share a common star. <br /><br />If you have a citation/correction, you could edit the entry. <br /><br />Jahn Ghaltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-37610238174557824132016-08-30T03:21:46.717-07:002016-08-30T03:21:46.717-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.User1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10448974146014437628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-45391032395680830162016-07-28T07:21:51.432-07:002016-07-28T07:21:51.432-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10174159099202149344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-40200912379906115302016-07-24T12:39:45.462-07:002016-07-24T12:39:45.462-07:00Thanks, Patricia, good to hear from you again. Onl...Thanks, Patricia, good to hear from you again. Only two more novellas in this series to go, and then I'll return to writing about the things I usually write about, assuming I can remember what those things were. Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-10979893515512203972016-07-22T15:27:42.953-07:002016-07-22T15:27:42.953-07:00Hi Kirk! I am still ploughing through this Novella...Hi Kirk! I am still ploughing through this Novella, Hope all is well, Live long and prosper!Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-22944912074236162632016-07-09T15:04:18.279-07:002016-07-09T15:04:18.279-07:00That was one movie I went to the theater for.
I lo...That was one movie I went to the theater for.<br />I loved it.<br />The book is great what I read of it.angryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-91265133164429175402016-07-09T12:34:48.872-07:002016-07-09T12:34:48.872-07:00Have not yet seen The Martian, parsnip. It's o...Have not yet seen The Martian, parsnip. It's on my "to watch" list.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-87639241864669055012016-07-09T12:15:43.897-07:002016-07-09T12:15:43.897-07:00Hey I am back. Sort of.
WOW !
I think maybe you li...Hey I am back. Sort of.<br />WOW !<br />I think maybe you like all this syfy stuff. <br />Me too but I just watch and enjoy. By any chance did you see The Martian ? I loved it and I also have the book. but it is too hard for me to read, I need the larger type. Wearing glasses make me tired. Right now I am reading a "Yearling Book" for 8 to 12 year olds and I am fairly OK with this. A far cry from a time when I read 3 books at a time.<br /><br />cheers, parsnip and thehamish.<br />angryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-25420220790749300862016-07-09T11:00:52.423-07:002016-07-09T11:00:52.423-07:00Thanks for pointing that out, Jim. I've since ...Thanks for pointing that out, Jim. I've since fixed it. I've seen Time After Time, but it was years ago, and going strictly by memory--I didn't even bother googling it when I wrote this post--the H.G. Wells of that filmed looked more like Warner. Or, maybe I just assumed McDowell would play Jack the Ripper. Meyer obviously cast against type. <br /><br />Looking at stills just now of Time After Time, I notice a bit of a height difference between Warner and McDowell. Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-71882791937892808122016-07-09T09:59:27.319-07:002016-07-09T09:59:27.319-07:00Excellent writing and details! But if I may, in &q...Excellent writing and details! But if I may, in "Time After Time", David Warner played Stevenson, Jack the Ripper. Malcolm McDowell played H.G. Wells. Fun that both played in Star Trek movies (one, more than the other).JimCrippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07471571218135438517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-52599599677537876862016-06-26T09:07:57.694-07:002016-06-26T09:07:57.694-07:00wilfred@mail.postmanllc.netwilfred@mail.postmanllc.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-65342864457192602792016-03-17T08:33:44.622-07:002016-03-17T08:33:44.622-07:00Doing my best to fix all the typos. Not only have ...Doing my best to fix all the typos. Not only have I had to re-write several sentences, but also had to try and remember what the hell I was trying to say!Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-13348475248072448702016-03-13T12:54:51.539-07:002016-03-13T12:54:51.539-07:00Postino, I've re-watched all the movies on the...Postino, I've re-watched all the movies on the computer. In the case of The Undiscovered Country, I'd seen it once about 20 years ago, and thought it would be fairly easy to write about. Then I watched it a second time, noticed things I hadn't before, and had to rethink the entire movie. Hence, one of the reasons for the lengthy delay. As far as the TV episodes go, it's a combination of memory, seeing what's available on YouTube, and looking at transcripts of a particular episode. Just google "Star Trek transcripts" and you can read every bit of dialogue in whatever episode and movie you care to review (including the animated series and spinoffs like The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.) Plus there's innumerable Star Trek websites, such as Memory Alpha, and many, many blogs dedicated to Star Trek. In addition to all that, Wikipedia has a page for every single episode. And, of course, there's IMDb. All that makes Star Trek a relatively EASY show to research. I don't know if I could do as comprehensive a job as I have if I were doing a series of posts about The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, or your favorite, Mission Impossible. However, there's a downside to all that information. Knowing there's something more out there, and that I can get to it if I just try hard enough, makes writing this VERY time consuming (another reason why it's taking so long) Were there less information, I would just go, "OK, I'll just go by memory" Less reliable, to be sure, but also much less time consuming.<br /><br />As far as the lengthy analysis goes, I'm trying to open up Star Trek a bit, take it out of the box it's been consigned to. Not everybody, but when writing about Star Trek, some people tend to compare it just to itself, and not the larger culture that it's a product of. I don't think the creative minds behind Trek--Roddenberry, Coon, Fontana, Bennett, Meyer, etc--ever meant it to be divorced from the culture-at-large, but I feel, for all its popularity, or maybe because of that popularity, that's what has happened to some extent.<br /><br />Finally, Postino, glad you liked my bon mot. Cheers. Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-62224821697332572642016-03-13T12:23:50.594-07:002016-03-13T12:23:50.594-07:00That's fine, parsnip. Gives me time to remove ...That's fine, parsnip. Gives me time to remove all the typos. I've come across three just skimming what I've wrote, including one makes a sentence in the fourth-to-last paragraph incomprehensible. Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-30279102364626018982016-03-13T05:15:48.656-07:002016-03-13T05:15:48.656-07:00Another excellent and well-researched chapter in y...Another excellent and well-researched chapter in your ongoing series. It is worth the wait since the last one. I've mentioned before I'm not a Star Trek fan, although I have seen most of the movies, and my wife was a big fan of the Next Generation so we watched it every week. But I am in awe of what you know and the thought you have put into what you have seen of the Star Trek universe. For the purposes of this magnum opus of a blog series, have you sat down and re-watched all of the movies and TV series? Or do you have an eidetic memory, and can remember every line of dialogue you ever heard?<br /><br />You have done a lengthy analysis of the politics reflected in Star Trek, and since I am a political junkie I appreciate you pointing out that Star Trek reflects the political tenor of the times in which it was made. I was aware of that, even with my spotty watching of the original ST in the sixties, and thought it clever that the creative people behind the series found a way to tell a contemporary tale of "our" enemy (the communists) by using stand-in villains. Other shows I watched, including my favorite of the time, Mission: Impossible, used the sinister villains-in-the-shadows cast by the Iron Curtain, but in retrospect I think Star Trek did a more cerebral job depicting the whole Cold War aspect of its times.<br /><br />The phrase you used parenthetically about the years between the "fall" of communism and modern day I wrote down, and will try to drop it into conversation sometime so I sound more erudite and profound than I really am: "Yes, it's been that long. True Peace is now old enough to purchase alcohol." I don't drink, either, but I'll hoist a glass of iced tea to that bon mot, Kirk. <br /><br />I look forward to the next chapters. Postinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853607848670921106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-9221123603922024962016-03-12T17:19:21.569-08:002016-03-12T17:19:21.569-08:00I am enjoying what I have read so far but it is ra...I am enjoying what I have read so far but it is rather long for me. Comprehension problems.<br />So when I finish reading this I will come back and comment.<br /><br />cheers, parsnipangryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.com