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And the stress begins. I am very competitive.Jets vs Bengals - nice to have football back. A bit too warm today for football, but the heck, it's still football on TV.
And the stress begins. I am very competitive.Jets vs Bengals - nice to have football back. A bit too warm today for football, but the heck, it's still football on TV.
Having now watched episode 4 of "The Night Of," I must revised my personal survival time estimate for prison down from 2-3 minutes to 30-60 seconds.
Separately, hopefully, there is a special place in hell for the fancy woman attorney from the big name law firm who dropped Naz as a client.
Having now watched episode 4 of "The Night Of," I must revise my personal survival time estimate for prison down from 2-3 minutes to 30-60 seconds...
Cookie, get a rope.Having now watched episode 5, my survival time estimate has drop to 0-15 seconds.
And, Number 1 wasn't to shabby either!"The Cage" - Svengoolie played the uncut, original pilot. I'd seen it years ago when Rodenberry had visited the Syracuse University Campus back in about '75 but hadn't seen it since. Great fun. Jeffery Hunter wasn't all that bad.
Worf
"The Cage" - Svengoolie played the uncut, original pilot. I'd seen it years ago when Rodenberry had visited the Syracuse University Campus back in about '75 but hadn't seen it since. Great fun. Jeffery Hunter wasn't all that bad.
Worf
⇧ that is nice and thoughtful and heartfelt ,I know.
I work on Wall Street and knew many, many people who died on 9/11 - including one of my two closest friends. Yesterday, as we always do on 9/11, I spoke to my mom and she mentioned someone I hadn't thought of since that day, but who died in the first tower. I felt a bit guilty as I can't even remember everyone I knew - it was such a brutal event.
Considering it was a pilot of a new, groundbreaking show and, thus, didn't have a template to follow saying this is how we do a philosophy driven sci-fi series - I think it is outstanding. While Shatner as Kirk is iconic for a good reason, not having known that at the time, I would have stayed with Hunter. I also love that Number One was a strong, smart woman - the show took a step backwards when they moved away from that.
And the plot is smart, thoughtful and intelligent, especially for the time. I could have done with Spock not yelling all his lines to, I guess, appear military, but overall, I loved it.
...Spock yelled his lines because the embryonic conception of the character when they shot was that he wasn't yet comfortable speaking English....!
..NBC specifically wanted Number One off the show, as they insisted audiences wouldn't accept a woman with that level of responsibility. They wanted "too satanic looking" Mr. Spock off too, and Roddenberry felt he could only buck their demands on one character for the second pilot...
...And while he's fine in the part, I'm really glad they didn't go with Hunter - he died in 1969 and wouldn't have been around for the revival of the Trek films... and likely there wouldn't have been all those later Trek series without them!
Of course, if Hunter had become the Captain of the Enterprise, he never would have been injured by the explosion while filming in Spain. So he would most likely have survived at least long enough to make all the Trek movies! He would have turned 90 this year.And while he's fine in the part, I'm really glad they didn't go with Hunter - he died in 1969 and wouldn't have been around for the revival of the Trek films... and likely there wouldn't have been all those later Trek series without them!
Jeffrey Hunter was called back when NBC requested a second pilot episode for Star Trek, but declined the role because he wanted to concentrate on his movie career....While Shatner as Kirk is iconic for a good reason, not having known that at the time, I would have stayed with Hunter...
Jeffrey Hunter was called back when NBC requested a second pilot episode for Star Trek, but declined the role because he wanted to concentrate on his movie career.