jalanhenning
I love this! Now you need to do an analysis like this one on Star Trek and the Bechdel-Wallace test!
I realize you’re not trying to predict quality, just personal enjoyability, but I do wonder how it relates to quality.
I actually think it might be slightly more predictive of the quality of a show overall than of individual episodes. But both ST:TOS and ST:TNG have many great captain-centric episodes that I’m not sure if it is predictive of episode quality particularly.
Great suggestion! Everyone remembers the Gorn, but the Metrons are fairly representative of the incredibly advanced aliens typical of TOS (like the Organians, Thasians, or Providers).
I think I'd suggest a planet-of-the-week episode. From TOS, "This Side of Paradise" or "A Taste of Armageddon." From TNG, maybe "Who Watches the Watchers" or "Up the Long Ladder."
If it is a promotional image from the studio, I would imagine it said something like “Star Trek Now on Fridays” originally. I think “pon farr” wouldn’t have yet been well known enough to mention.
I hang out at my local game store once a week. I've timed the following playlist to fit the commute!
- Status Report
- How Would That Feel
- I’m Ready
- I’m the X
- We are One
- Subspace End Credit Medley
I felt like Freeman included Rutherford because his “gee whiz! lookee there!” naïveté added to her misdirection.
I'm slowly and tediously working my way through ST:TNG season 1.
Very clever! And thorough. Thanks for posting this analysis.
"Spectre of the Gun" has a pretty surreal set and I could easily imagine it as a play.
TOS “The Empath”
My dad watched TOS with me when it first aired, but I was too young to remember it. My first recollection is watching it in syndication. I went on to read my dad's many books, especially the Star Trek Concordance and the James Blish adaptations.