I also vividly remember this episode from my youth and would frequently talk about it with my friends and wondered why it got forgotten. I think I read that this plot might have been readdressed and resolved in a years later novel.
I really like that episode in original Star Trek where Kirk gets in a fight over a woman and the question is raised of what it means to be human. Wasn't that a great one?
A bad storyline cut short was the "warp engines cause space-climate-change." They set a warp speed limit to reduce damage to...space...then never refer to it again.
Originally shared by Jonathan Tweet Tonight, my "Lethal Damage" 13th Age campaign draws to a close. Meanwhile, the guys are work have talked me into running a couple D&D sessions for them. That was the day 13th Age was announced, and they're happy to play 13th Age instead. That will be my "Great Center" campaign, based in the imperial capital of Axis, the center of the world. It's my opportunity to explore the setting from yet another perspective.
Where did it all go wrong, Casey? I can’t pinpoint it, but it was already too late when they remade 3:10 to Yuma and took a movie that was mostly two men talking about morality in a hotel room and put in a Gatling gun.
this was super gnarly for the time. Exploding heads and all that shit.
ReplyDeleteMajor hints at big things in the future... then nada.
I wonder why this got the axe.
Benjamin Baugh I think they wound up going with the Borg instead of the Conspiracy aliens.
ReplyDeleteThe gore blew my fourteen(?) year old mind.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Plus, Starfleet was supposed to be the safe space, far from enemy lines.
ReplyDeleteCoolest story? Eh, Maybe for TNG. It is a shame they didn't follow up.
ReplyDeleteWhat episode?
ReplyDeleteI also vividly remember this episode from my youth and would frequently talk about it with my friends and wondered why it got forgotten. I think I read that this plot might have been readdressed and resolved in a years later novel.
ReplyDeleteN. Phillip Cole Conspiracy I believe.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that was super disturbing. Possibly too disturbing for Star Trek.
ReplyDeletehttp://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Conspiracy_(episode)
I really like that episode in original Star Trek where Kirk gets in a fight over a woman and the question is raised of what it means to be human. Wasn't that a great one?
ReplyDeleteThat was a good one.
ReplyDeleteI want a list of interesting story lines cut short
ReplyDeleteA bad storyline cut short was the "warp engines cause space-climate-change." They set a warp speed limit to reduce damage to...space...then never refer to it again.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Actually, it was referred to in a later episode where they were given "special permission" to exceed the limits due to some threat.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they never went back to it is why it is so great!
ReplyDeleteSuch a weird episode. Gross in a way TNG rarely was.
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