#and the scene immediately afterwards where Jim gets infected too and Spock manages to pull himself together *for Jim's sake* is just. mwah

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I've genuinely been really enjoying how weird and dated certain parts of TOS are, actually (the costumes and effects especially)! it's really fun getting to bear witness to such iconic cultural artifacts, and getting to think about how they've contributed to modern culture, and how they hold up next to it.

also: dogs in little costumes. best show ever made.

all your trekposting convinced me to finally start watching Star Trek: TOS last night and it's absolutely delightful so far!!! I can totally see how this show was the basis of fandom culture as we know it

(also I'll be keeping an eye out for your name in the credits once I get to TNG)

I'm delighted for you. :)

ST:TOS displays many of the problems of TV in its time: weird in-universe inconsistencies (often caused by different production staff imperfectly "riding herd" on different scripts by freelance writers), a lack of straightforward continuity (caused by there being no way to control in what order episodes aired), and failures of tone from season to season (see #1).

It also displays many virtues: a very early commitment to representational and diversity issues (because regardless of what clueless baby fanbois claim, Trek was always woke), stories that require the characters to learn things and act on what they've learned rather than just reflexively react, and one of the greatest character triads ever.

(...Okay, fine, I'm biased. But at this point I see no reason to try to be artificially "even-handed" about a love affair nearly twice as old as the one I've got with @petermorwood). :)

Have fun! (...And in the meanwhile, you won't have to wait long for my credit when you hit ST:TNG [s1e6]. In fact, you can see my favorite shot—the unavoidable Door into Starlight visual pun—right here at 00:12, in the original network series promo for the series that opened on September 28, 1987...)