{"id":2405,"date":"2017-11-17T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:47:26","slug":"the-50s-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 1967: premiere date of the <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode &#8216;Journey to Babel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2406\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2x15_Journey_to_Babel_title_card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2x15_Journey_to_Babel_title_card.jpg 638w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2x15_Journey_to_Babel_title_card-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While transporting dignitaries to an important peace conference the Enterprise is pursued by a mysterious vessel and an assassin is discovered among the passengers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one is my favorite Spock-centric episode.<\/p>\n<p>We meet his parents, Sarek of Vulcan and Amanda Grayson of Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2407\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sarek_amanda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sarek_amanda.jpg 700w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sarek_amanda-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also meet the Andorians and Tellarites\u00a0 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2408\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Babel_reception.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Babel_reception.jpg 956w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Babel_reception-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Babel_reception-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s the first reference to the Pirates of Orion.<\/p>\n<p>The one scene in this episode that gets me is when Amanda tries to convince Spock to assist Dr. McCoy with a blood transfusion to save his dying father.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2409\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/amanda_spock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/amanda_spock.jpg 612w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/amanda_spock-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you were five years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished, because the other boys tormented you saying that you weren&#8217;t really Vulcan. I watched you, knowing that inside that the human part of you was crying and I cried, too. There must be some part of me in you, some part that I still can reach. If being Vulcan is more important to you, then you&#8217;ll stand there speaking rules and regulations from Starfleet and Vulcan philosophy, and let your father die. And I&#8217;ll hate you for the rest of my life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own Mom was protective of me as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 1967: premiere date of the Star Trek episode &#8216;Journey to Babel&#8217;. While transporting dignitaries to an important peace conference the Enterprise is pursued by a mysterious vessel and an assassin is discovered among the passengers. This one is my favorite Spock-centric episode. We meet his parents, Sarek of Vulcan and Amanda Grayson of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-12\/\" 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-2405","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\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}