{"id":360,"date":"2017-01-19T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=360"},"modified":"2017-01-19T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:47:19","slug":"the-50s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 19th, 1967: premiere date of <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode &#8216;Arena&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1x19_Arena_title_card-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1x19_Arena_title_card-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1x19_Arena_title_card-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1x19_Arena_title_card-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1x19_Arena_title_card.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is arguably my favorite <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode, ever. \u00a0The opening shot right before and after the title sequence in one of the best moments of the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cestus III has been destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A red shirt gets killed, Spock&#8217;s tricorder is destroyed, and the Gorn is introduced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gorn.jpg 638w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gorn-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love everything about this episode, from the Metrons to the bamboo cannon Kirk uses to defeat the Gorn captain, who I met a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-366\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wondercon2k8day1_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wondercon2k8day1_03.jpg 640w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wondercon2k8day1_03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bobbyclarkauto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bobbyclarkauto.jpg 960w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bobbyclarkauto-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bobbyclarkauto-768x610.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This episode is so popular that it&#8217;s been referenced throughout Star Trek&#8217;s history, and on other shows like <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More information here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/article\/the-gorn-identity-50-years-in-pictures\">The Gorn Identity @ startrek.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19th, 1967: premiere date of Star Trek episode &#8216;Arena&#8217; This is arguably my favorite Star Trek episode, ever. \u00a0The opening shot right before and after the title sequence in one of the best moments of the series. &#8220;Cestus III has been destroyed.&#8221; A red shirt gets killed, Spock&#8217;s tricorder is destroyed, and the Gorn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-2\/\" 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-360","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\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}