After Carrie Fisher passed away, I wasn’t planning to go to Silicon Valley Comic Con this year, and then they announce these two guests:
Holy heroes from childhood, Batman!
So yeah, I’ll be there on Saturday for a photo op with the Dynamic Duo.
The 50s
April 6, 1967: premiere date of Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”.
After accidentally overdosing on a powerful stimulant, Dr. McCoy becomes unbalanced and disappears through the Guardian of Forever, a newly discovered time portal on a remote planet. Kirk and Spock follow after learning that McCoy somehow changed history, removing everything they once knew; including the Enterprise. Arriving in the 1930s, the duo meet Edith Keeler, a New York social worker who gives them a place to stay. As the days pass, and McCoy is nowhere to be seen, Kirk finds himself falling in love with Keeler… but Spock discovers that Keeler must die to restore the timeline.
This has been called the best episode of the Original Series. I don’t agree, but it is in my top 10 episodes.
The Guardian of Forever is one of the best… items, certainly one of the most iconic, in all of Star Trek. Sadly it was only every used once in the Original Series, and once during the Animated Series. It’s been used in other media, like the Star Trek Online MMORPG.
My one issue with this episode is the same that writer Harlan Ellison has with this episode. There are no lasting ramifications on Kirk.
He found the true love of his life, and watched her die, knowing that he could have saved her. But after the episode was over, that was it, off to the next planet, and the one after that, and eventually Kirk romances a few other women over the course of the 5-year mission. Edith Keeler meant nothing to Kirk, or he (and/or the writers) hid it very well.
All in all, it was a good episode.
Deliveries update
Multiple Hobby Disorder
Cutting it close
This time for sure!
Weekend Update
Review: Power Rangers
I was never a Power Rangers fan.
I did have a crush on the Pink Ranger, Amy Jo Johnson, who later appeared on Felicity.
That said, I liked the new movie a lot. Each of the Rangers had enough backstory to make you actually care about them. There was enough backstory in general that allowed you to jump into this movie with little or no knowledge of the Power Rangers.
Fans probably geeked out over things more than I did.
My favorite character was the Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston. When we first meet him, you can tell right away that there’s something different about him, and he explains that he’s on the autism spectrum. His performance in the movie was fantastic, pretty much stealing every scene that he was in.
The rest of the cast were great as well, the entire movie was carried by all of them, as a team, as it were. It felt a bit like The Breakfast Club with the detention angle and how they all came together to work toward their common goal.
I actually grinned like an idiot when the original theme was played. Like the whole movie was building up to that, and the scene it was played in.
And I happened to have my Icee cup in my hand when they showed a pair of cameos in the film, so I raised my cup in salute to them.
I was also surprised by the mid-credits scene, which I should have seen coming.
I may not be a fan, but I know some of the lore.
After the movie I saw the Blue Ranger Pop! Vinyl figure, but decided not to get it, because I would then have to get the other 4 Ranger figures.
Recommended by me. It’s a lot of fun.
Out of My System
Okay, I think I’m done picking up everything that I was interested in for the Batman Miniature Game.
After the announcement of Joss Whedon directing the Batgirl film, I decided to finally pick a Batgirl figure for the game.
There are two of them.
Both have their strengths and weaknesses in game terms, the Animated version is a bit weaker in terms of skills.
I couldn’t decide, so I picked up both. I have 3 Batmen, after all.
And then I picked up this one to create a Birds of Prey team, with Black Canary:
And then late last night I picked up the Watchmen figures on eBay.
Basically, I’ve spent that small fortune that I was hoping to avoid spending by not getting this game in the first place. Good thing I already got my tax return…
Star Trek 50th
There were 29 episodes of the Original Series that premiered in the year I was born, 1967. These were the voyages from the back half of Season 1 and the front of Season 2.
I haven’t written about all of them, just favorites of mine. Perhaps I should have been doing them all along. Ah well. I’ll continue blogging about my favorite episodes.
For the record, “The Alternative Factor” premiered 50 years ago today.
It was never one of my favorite episodes, truth be told, but it may have been the first time I ever heard of the idea of parallel universes.
And this was the first episode where one of my favorite ‘minor’ Enterprise crewmen got his first screen credit.
