{"id":2273,"date":"2017-10-20T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:52:52","slug":"the-50s-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 20th, 1967: premiere date of <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode &#8216;The Doomsday Machine&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2274\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/doomsdaymachine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/doomsdaymachine.png 800w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/doomsdaymachine-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/doomsdaymachine-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said elsewhere that this is one of my all-time favorite episodes, and one that I can watch over and over and over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2277\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The_Doomsday_Machine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The_Doomsday_Machine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The_Doomsday_Machine-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The_Doomsday_Machine-768x288.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I named my first <em>Star Trek<\/em> Role Playing Game character Mackenzie Decker, and made him the nephew of Commodore Matt Decker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2275\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/decker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/decker.jpg 450w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/decker-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So much great quotable dialogue came from this episode.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They say there&#8217;s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of Hell. I saw it!<br \/>\nMatt, where&#8217;s your crew?<br \/>\nOn the third planet.<br \/>\nThere IS no third planet!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you think I know that? There was, but not anymore! They called me; they BEGGED me for help, four hundred of them! I couldn&#8217;t&#8230; I-I couldn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Bones, you ever hear of a doomsday machine?No, I&#8217;m a doctor, not a mechanic.<\/li>\n<li>If I only had some phasers.<br \/>\nPhasers &#8211; you&#8217;ve got &#8217;em. I have one bank recharged.<br \/>\nScotty, you just earned your pay for the week.<\/li>\n<li>Vulcans never bluff.<\/li>\n<li>A commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well&#8230; I should have died with mine.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re stronger with you than without you!<\/li>\n<li>Gentlemen, beam me aboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the highlights of that <em>Star Trek<\/em> concert that I attended last year was a live performance of the music (entitled &#8220;Kirk Does It Again&#8221;) from the final act of the episode.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lf7y1Bn4LKU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen the episode enough times, you can recite the dialogue as the music plays.<\/p>\n<p>Most if not all of this music was repurposed for the episode &#8216;The Ultimate Computer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably watch this one sometime later today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2276\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USS_Constellation_approaches_planet_killer-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USS_Constellation_approaches_planet_killer-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USS_Constellation_approaches_planet_killer-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USS_Constellation_approaches_planet_killer-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USS_Constellation_approaches_planet_killer.jpg 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 20th, 1967: premiere date of Star Trek episode &#8216;The Doomsday Machine&#8217;. I&#8217;ve said elsewhere that this is one of my all-time favorite episodes, and one that I can watch over and over and over. I named my first Star Trek Role Playing Game character Mackenzie Decker, and made him the nephew of Commodore Matt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 50s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,45],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-star-trek","tag-the-50s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}