From: ottoh3@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Otto Heuer #3)
Subject: Re: Series' beginnings
To: rec.arts.startrek.misc (rec.arts.startrek.misc)
Posted-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 14: 19:17 CDT
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Roger Tang writes:

| rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu writes:

| >ottoh3@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Otto Heuer #3) writes:

| >>Jason Snell posts:

| >>| Now, to flame point #2: "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which, in my mind, is
| >>| one of TOS' best episodes.
| >>| as well as being a pretty
| >>| solid action show.

| >>They had at least 10 better show that were "action" oriented:
| >[some deleted]
| >>Spectre of the Gun

|       The mind boggles. SPECTRE??

Spectre was excellent.  It  showed us  some of  the characters  in a unique
setting.  TNG  should  take  some  clues  from  this  and  show  us how the
Enterprise-D crew would act if thrust into a strange situation.  Maybe this
is why I'm looking forward to "Time's Arrow" so much.  I hope it is as well
done as the TOS equivalent.  No spoilers for "TA" in this newsgroup, though
(and let's keep it that wasy).

| >>Even if we steer away from the "action" episodes, there were many that were
| >>better that WNMHGB":
| >[Again, some deleted]
| >>The Paradise Syndrome
| >>Wink of an Eye
| >>By Any Other Name
| >>I, Mudd
| >>The Way to Eden
| >Ditto these.  In fact, except for the first, I find all of these episodes to
| >be very poor; mind-candy at best.
| 
|       Same here.  F'r instance, EDEN takes place when the show was well
| into its descent into self parody.

A lot of people seem to overlook this episode in their list of "favorites".
It just has to be taken for  the comedic  value instead  of taken seriously
(much like "Tribbles" is).

| >>I really do find it painful to watch DM.   When Decker  starts drooling and
| >>spitting on the cast members as he utters (with no sense of  acting at all)
| >We obviously have different definitions of the word "acting". :-)
| 
|       Well, didn't you get just a LITTLE sense of that with his continued
| declarations that Patrick Stewart is a bad actor?

Now, now, Roger...  let's not mis-quote me again.  I never  claimed Pat was
a bad actor.  I said that his style of acting  doesn't lend  itself well to
the television scene.   He  is one  of the  better performers  when he does
stage work.  He really knows his  stuff in  that arena.   He  just needs to
learn how to act well for *television* (or else  go back  where he belongs,
which (from what he's said recently) is  exactly what  he plans  to do when
his contract is up).

Anyone who  wants  to  hear  further  on  this  subject,  please  check the
r.a.startrek archives from a couple of  years ago.   I'd  really not rather
rehash this all again.

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