star trek caps and pseudoscience: tos 1x20, "the alternative factor"

you may remember this as the "lazarus" episode, in which the universe is blinking on and off and there's a crazy bearded man with a spaceship and mysteriously bad fashion sense.  the pseudoscience and the dialogue in this episode are classic pulp, which is to say, melodramatic and sort of theatrical, and completely lacking in logic:  this is exactly the sort of thing i was saying that cube reminded me of. 

i'm a big fan of pseudoscience, and i was laughing almost all the way through.  for example, here, ( have some delicious pseudoscience! about--dun dun DUN--alternate universes! )

here are a couple of sequences of caps, like ( the star trek idea of special effects to indicate travel between universes. )

then we also have spock apparently ( checking out kirk's ass. )

bonus +7: ( cuddly shots, funny faces, and an actual woman character with lines )

star trek caps and sequences: tos 1x22, "the return of the archons"

entertaining enough but nothing especially special--except for one of tos's 1,600,042 plots about how computers can't replace humans because humans have SOUL (and this episode is particularly notable in that spock is first to bring it up, and he uses the word "soul" when he does it).  it's also one of the 1,600 episodes in which they defeat a computer by proving to it that it is illogical, whereupon it speaks in a strange voice, emits smoke and sparks, and ceases to work.  maybe kirk has psychic control over computers.

the best thing about this episode is spock's black hooded cape.  spock looks really good in a black hooded cape.  the second best thing is everyone else's costumes, which want to have a kind of The Puritans Have Just Landed vibe going on, but keep getting themselves confused with sort of 1910 and 1930 vibes, in that they couldn't actually afford any shirts more historic than oxford button-downs.  ahem.


( spock in his cape and his shirtsleeves. and also other people. )

and, of course, ( the flirtatious sequence from the closer. )

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i'm never here because the sociology exam is in a week and i have a lot of reading that i'm never going to get done if i don't stay away from the internet. 

it might be my imagination, but i think the reading in swedish is getting a bit easier.