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spockeveryday · 2 months

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#spock #leonard nimoy #star trek #st: tos #2x16 the gamesters of triskelion #02435

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perlukafarinn · 1 year

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Rating Star Trek TOS costumes because why not! (part 8)

Friday's Child (2x11). Look at these men. Look at them. The joy this image brings me? Unparalleled. It took me five minutes to stop laughing when I first watched the episode. I love this show so much, 100/10.

In comparison to her fellow actors this episode, this actress looks so drab. There's the slightest hint that her costume's related to the others with that little accent of blue faux fur but it's like they're not even trying. That said, I like this outfit well enough on its own, especially the iridescent veil, very fancy. 7/10.

The Deadly Years (2x12). Please try to ignore old man McCoy in the background there and focus on how adorable this jumpsuit is. The fabric is not my favorite but the colors, pattern and cut are all cute. And it has pockets! 8/10.

The Gamesters of Triskelion (2x16). It's giving Bootleg Barbarella and I mean that as a compliment. The blown out green wig with this silver bikini and harness is such a weird choice, I kind have to love it. 9/10.

This on the other hand... man, they did this actress dirty. The worst part by far are the fake eyebrows but I also hate that this swimsuit looks so baggy on her - at least give her clothes that fit! That said, the colors of the suit, body paint and wig all compliment each other nicely. 4/10.

Lumping the boys together because there's not a lot to say. Most of the time (though not always, as per the top of this post) the men in TOS get saddled with much less interesting costumes than the ladies. It is funny to me that this dude's skimpy gladiator outfit is quilted. I also do like a goatee, though the plain black cloak with the fire-engine red collar is about the most boring thing they could have done with this concept. 2/10.

Honestly? Slay. They should make harnesses part of the official Starfleet uniform. 10/10.

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frogayyyy · 3 years

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TOS Episodes in stardate order:

I finally finished my rewatch and thought this might be useful for ff writers or just anyone interested

(this is using the Netflix episode order and the star date which was mentioned first in the episode)

1x04 Where No Man Has Gone Before 1312.4

1x07 Mudd's Women 1329.8

1x02 The Man Trap 1513.1

1x11 The Corbomite Maneuver 1514

1x03 Charlie X 1533.7

1x06 The Enemy Within 1672.1

1x05 The Naked Time 1704.2

1x18 The Squire of Gothos 2124.5

1x08 What Are Little Girls Made Of? 2712.4

1x09 Miri 2713.5

1x10 Dagger of the Mind 2715.1

1x14 The Conscience of the King 2817.6

1x17 The Galileo Seven 2821.5

1x21 Court Martial 2947.3

1x12 The Menagerie Part 1 3012.6

1x13 The Menagerie Part 2 3013.1

2x07 Catspaw 3018.2

1x16 Shore Leave 3025.3

1x19 Arena 3045.6

1x28 The Alternative Factor 3087.6

1x20 Tomorrow is Yesterday 3113.2

1x23 Space Seed 3141.9

1x22 The Return of the Archons 3156.2

1x24 A Taste of Armageddon 3192.1

1x26 The Devil in the Dark 3196.1

1x27 Errand of Mercy 3198.4

2x16 The Gamesters of Triskelion 3211.7

2x09 Metamorphosis 3219.8

1x30 Operation: Annihilate! 3287.2

2x01 Amok Time 3372.7

2x02 Who Mourns for Adonais? 3468.1

2x12 The Deadly Years 3478.2

2x11 Friday's Child 3497.2

2x14 Wolf in the Fold 3614.9

2x13 Obsession 3619.2

2x05 The Apple 3715.3

2x10 Journey to Babel 3842.3

2x25 Bread and Circuses 4040.7

2x19 A Private Little War 4211.4

2x18 The Immunity Syndrome 4307.1

3x13 Elaan of Troyius 4372.5

3x06 Spectre of the Gun 4385.3

2x08 I, Mudd 4513.3

2x15 The Trouble with Tribbles 4523.3

2x22 By Any Other Name 4657.5

2x24 The Ultimate Computer 4729.4

2x20 Return to Tomorrow 4768.3

3x03 The Paradise Syndrome 4842.6

3x02 The Enterprise Incident 5027.3

3x04 And the Children Shall Lead 5029.5

3x12 The Empath 5121.5

3x16 The Mark of Gideon 5423.4

3x01 Spock's Brain 5431.4

3x08 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 5476.3

3x05 Is There In Truth No Beauty? 5630.7

3x09 The Tholian Web 5693.2

3x11 Wink of an Eye 5710.5

3x14 Whom Gods Destroy 5718.3

3x18 The Lights of Zetar 5725.3

3x15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 5730.2

3x10 Plato's Stepchildren 5784.2

3x21 The Cloud Minders 5818.4

3x20 The Way to Eden 5832.3

3x19 Requiem for Methuselah 5843.7

3x22 The Savage Curtain 5906.4

3x24 Turnabout Intruder 5928.5

3x23 All Our Yesterdays 5943.7

No Stardate:

1x01 Pilot: The Cage

1x15 Balance of Terror

1x25 This Side of Paradise

1x29 The City on the Edge of Forever

2x03 The Changeling

2x04 Mirror, Mirror

2x06 The Doomsday Machine

2x17 A Piece of the Action

2x21 Patterns of Force

2x23 The Omega Glory

2x26 Assignment: Earth

3x07 Day of the Dove

3x17 That Which Survives

#tos #star trek #for reference #.txt

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daraoakwise · 3 years

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Uhura is our queen! Star Trek rewatch, continuing with 2x16, The Gamesters of Triskelion. Wow. Ok. This episode. After the light and comic Trouble With Tribbles, we get what is, in my opinion, one of the darkest Uhura episodes. This episode is full of Uhura, with lots of content in the main storyline. But friends, I’m just going to say it. While it isn’t played that way (real human consequences being largely ignored in Star Trek, alas), this episode of heavy. She is tortured, threatened, and there is one scene where the best case interpretation is that she fights off a violent sexual assault.

Uhura, Kirk, and Chekov are beaming down to an uninhabited planet to check on a communications and navigation station. I love that Uhura is included on this mission. It absolutely makes sense that she would be part of a team to check on a communications station. Sadly, we don’t get to see her at work. They step into the transport pad, but before Scott can start they transporter sequence they are instantly boinged away to somewhere else.

They scramble to their feet, and quickly figure out that they are not on the planet they are supposed to be on—sky is the wrong color, too many suns. They are approached by some warriors wielding weapons. The three of them immediately step into a defensive posture, but the phasers won’t fire. Kirk orders them to go to hand to hand combat. To our eyes, used to actors who train extensively for action sequences, it looks a little funny and awkward. There is a bit of a disconnect between what I would think the skills of a trained Starfleet officer would be, and Nichelle Nichols’, um, actual skill. (No one else is any better.) We’ll just overlook that. Uhura is subdued by two of the warriors.

Kirk asks if they are all okay. Uhura says that she thinks she is, although the way that she reacts suggests she has taken some hits. The master thrall appears and compliments them on their fighting spirit, noting in particular that Uhura’s spirit is as great as the Captain’s. Damn straight it is! (Which makes me wonder if she is targeted later to try to break that.) The three of them are tied up and taken prisoner, and sent to be trained. They are told they will spend the rest of their lives there.

They are shown to their quarters—barred cells. Kirk gives a glance at his officers, who immediately follow along. They punch their captors and make a run for it, but their neck collars are activated, and they all scream in pain and collapse.

They are put in their cells and left alone for a time. Chekov says that the Enterprise will be looking for them, but Uhura points out that the Enterprise would have no idea where to look—they have no idea where they are.

This next scene is unquestionably a sexual assault. It’s horrifying. And it’s perpetrated against Uhura. The audience isn’t shown anything, but god, we can hear it. The big blonde drill thrall brings a tray to Uhura. Kirk challenges him, asking what he wants of Uhura, but the thrall shuts him down. The door slides open and the thrall walks in, backing Uhura deeper into the room while music plays ominously. We can’t see Uhura anymore, but she screams at him: “what are you doing?!” There is banging, and Uhura is making a truly terrible keening, screaming sound. We see their shadows; they are struggling. “I have been selected for you,” the thrall says, and his meaning is abundantly clear. More struggling in the shadows, and Uhura groans and starts screaming again. Kirk, who can’t see anything but the shadows we also see is shouting for her: “Lieutenant, are you all right???!!” Kirk desperately shoves his hand through the bars. “What’s happening to Lieutenant Uhura!!??” he cries, and his voice cracks in rage. We then cut to commercial on Kirk’s despairing face. Back from commercial, Kirk is still calling out for her. The thrall walks out of her cell, staring her down. “She is not allowed to refuse selection,” he pants, and walks out apparently clipping up his belt.

One of two things has just happened. It is possible that she has just fought him off. Or it is also possible that she has … not been able to fight him off. Not much time has passed, and they are still clothed. But I’ve got to say, there are things that 1960s Star Trek just can’t say; things they can’t show, and so Star Trek hints. It suggests. It cuts away. It uses music and editing to imply, while allowing for plausible deniability if the censors come knocking. And all of those things just happened. As I said in the beginning, the best case scenario is that she just fought off a violent sexual assault. Best case. So regardless of what happened in the shadows, she has been violated and attacked. And then Uhura gets to deal with her attacker for the rest of the episode. And of course, this is never squarely addressed. It never comes up again—not in this episode and certainly not in future episodes. And for now she’s focused on survival and escape. But god almighty, friends. This happened to her. In sickbay and with her therapist back home and in the dark nights in her quarters, this was surely something she had to come to terms with.

They are brought out to train in combat. We are introduced to a thrall who has refused an order. (A black man, incidentally. Or not so incidentally.) Uhura is instructed to strike him with her weapon as punishment. “No!” she cries, flatly refusing. She is told refusal is not allowed. She doesn’t care; she won’t do it. Their collars light up, choking them for a moment. And then Uhura is tied up, and her thrall—the same guy—is very, very clearly about to whip her. It’s … Jesus, guys. It’s horrifying, and the whole scene couldn’t be more obvious in its callback to slavery.

Kirk won’t let it happen and steps in to take the punishment, and is terribly whipped in front of his crewmates. Uhura is stopped from helping him during a short rest period. Kirk fights off the thrall, and the fight is interrupted by the “providers,” who purchase them and make bets.

After some action on the Enterprise we return to the planet. The three of them take care of their thralls—Kirk with a kiss and a punch, Chekov tying his up. And Uhura’s is off tattling because she complained about the food. I would preferred something more violent for him. Ah well. They escape, but are caught and punishment collars activated as a warning. The Enterprise finally arrives (after some really interesting tension and disagreement among Spock, McCoy, and Scott.) Uhura is largely background through the rest of the episode as Kirk gladiator-fights for their freedom. He kills Uhura’s attacker; if she reacts we don’t get to see it. I will say, every time we cut to her, she is at a very stiff Starfleet parade rest and completely stone-faced. Which is how I’d act, if I were suppressing trauma:

That is the face and posture of someone who is not okay. This episode. Let’s acknowledge the racism and callbacks to slavery. Let’s acknowledge the sexism—Uhura was “selected” and sexually assaulted, while the implication that someone might be “selected” for Kirk and Chekov is played with a wink. Let’s acknowledge that Uhura was repeatedly put in a position of helplessness. This episode sits weirdly for those reasons. I won’t call this a “good” Uhura episode, because I hate what happens to her. But it is fantastic to have so much content with her in the main storyline. She has an important role to play, and a storyline that (although never addressed), is something for us to think on and turn over in our minds, something to add to the list of Uhura’s significant life experiences. If this was modern Trek, this would be a storyline revisited as a part of her arc. So a fascinating episode. But also a very, very raw one. I don’t know exactly what happened to her. But it was bad. I hope she’s ok. I’m afraid that what happened after they beamed home is that she put on a brave face, and smiled at people while she walked to her quarters. And then she got in the hottest shower she could stand and fucking wept.

#star trek #nyota uhura #uhura #star trek original series #uhura rewatch #the gamesters of triskelion

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kinetic-elaboration · 2 years

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