Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
This week, I tackled one of the pinnacles of science fiction: Star Trek. My newbie-ism has no bounds. I have a confession: I have never seen Star Trek. Not one episode. Not even the movie with hottie hotness, Chris Pine, and American Horror Story’s Zachary Quinto. Contain your shock.
I watched the first episode, The Man Trap. The show originally aired in the late 60s, and I must say, they did pretty well as far as effects go without all of our 21st century cinema gadgets. I was actually surprised at how much I really liked the episode (this is why you have to read books and not just look at the covers).
Okay, so, there’s this starship USS Enterprise flying around the Milky Way basically checking up on the humans that live on alien planets. The ship is not only supposed to bring the humans supplies, but also check on their general well-being. In this episode, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy fly to a planet to perform a routine medical examination on Robert Crater (heehee, crater) and his wife, Nancy. Except things don’t go so routine. First, there’s something funny going on with Nancy’s appearance. Dr. McCoy sees her as he remembers, a younger, beautiful woman, Captain Kirk sees her as an older woman, but the kicker is that one of the flunkies, Truman Darnell, sees her as pretty young blonde, an entirely different woman. She’s similar to Moira from American Horror Story.
Spoiler Alert: she’s actually a monster. Nancy kills so many people in this episode. Maybe that’s why I liked it. She sucks all of the sodium from her victims, leaving these red suction circles on their faces. I mean, how cool is that for cause of death.
Things I’ve Learned:
Things I’m Curious About:
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