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The Human Adventure Continues: Talking About Star Trek

Khan has been quite good, recommended. Nice seeing McGivers given a good meaty scene.

I've been watching the Original Series Remastered with a group of friends, a show I've only cherry-picked in the past. There's a lot here I've never seen, and you understand why a lot of the early eps aren't fondly remembered (it's the misogyny).

That said, we were all impressed by Dagger of the Mind, a good, interesting story with some delightful acting choices (van Gelder), a cool female character allowed to do shit (Dr. Noel), the extremely rare inter-character flirtation done in a fun way (this shit has to have ignited the fledgling fanfic community at the time), and a ton of great lines ("such agony, to be empty"). Good stuff. The remaster also continues to impress with the lighting, the color, and the light hand on SFX.

Lot of good ones between now and the end of the season to look forward to.
 
Khan has been a fun thing so far. I like it. This week's episode was a little hard to listen to though, and probably deserved a trigger warning.

Dagger of the Mind is a fun episode, but you can also tell it's very much a product of its time where modern psychiatry was in its infancy, and people still didn't trust it.

One of the best parts of TNG (that never gets enough credit) is how differently and progressively (even for today) that show treated psychiatry and mental health. It's lowkey pretty powerful when a strong, stoic, masculine, leader figure like Picard voluntarily and proactively go straight to his counselor to talk out his problems.
 
WisteriaHysteria said:
This week's episode was a little hard to listen to though, and probably deserved a trigger warning.
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I thought I should follow up on this since it kinda comes at you without warning, even if the overall tenor of the episode/show at that point is of impending doom:

A gentle, failed augment (no real superpowers or anything) gets infected by a Ceti Eel for the first time. And Khan learns over the course of the episode how they effect people through a horrific series of accidents. He commands this guy to FIGHT to survive while they are trying to make it through the wilderness. Later when he's resting comfortably but still in agony in a hospital bed, his wife comes to console him. And in his messed up state, he's still trying to interpret Khan's survival orders and starts fighting his wife. And the foley work/sound effects of her getting assaulted and beaten to death are fucking horrifying to listen to. If it was that hard for me to listen to, I can't imagine any survivors of domestic abuse or SA would have a good time listening to it either.

It's a very affecting and carefully crafted scene for what is essentially just a radio drama/podcast. But the more I reflect on it, the more I'm like, I don't know what they were thinking making that scene.
 
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