Believe it or not, I've never watched the pilot in its entirety. Yes, I've seen "The Menagerie" a bunch of times so I know the story. I've also talked about how that episode is mostly a bore! But I’ve never watched the pilot as it was intended. is it better in its original, unedited form? Let's discuss. And, no. We’re not discussing SNW here.
I’ve always avoided doing this because Lois is a hard character to get down. Lex is a villain, easy. But Lois has to be many things. A strong reporter, a romantic foil, and damsel in distress. I never cared for her in the silver age but after the Byrne revamp, she got more interesting. When I really started to like her is when she found out Clark was Superman, I love that dynamic. Not only does she give Clark someone to talk to, but she can help and offer support. So much better than the awful silver age days when she was nosy pest trying to trick Superman into marrying her (because that's all women cared about in the silver age).
Here are my ten favorites. As always just opinion and just for fun. And there will only be one animated here, I’m not familiar with the others and if I included all of them, we’d be here all day.
As we get closer to the official anniversary, I have one more Star Trek article before the 200th that I promised back at the start of the year. Since my last article discussed my favorite bridge crews, the logical follow up is favorite bridge designs. The bridge is the center of the show, so it has to not only be aesthetically pleasing but functional as well. By that mean it has to be awesome whether they're in action or just sitting around talking.
Of course I am not counting the neon modern era designs, just the classic versions (I did post discovery and SNW above just to be fair). I also decided to count all the movies. And since DS9 is, well, a space station let's discuss the Defiant instead. And let's just focus on the ship's that helmed their various series, if I expanded to any ship, we'd be here all day.
#8.Kelvin movies
I admit these movies deserve a round of applause for the excellent casting choices and even forgive the redesign of the ship itself. What I can’t be forgiving about is the awful apple iPhone inspired design of the bridge. Takes any and all character away and even worst, shows keep copying it!!! This leaves absolutely no impact on me.
So here are my favorites as a tribute to him, shame on me for not recognizing him sooner.
He was famously more of a Marvel guy but as always this will be focused on his dc work but id be remiss if I didn’t point out his most influential work:
Yup one of the most iconic and memorable comic book stories ever was when Gwen Stacey was killed by the Green Goblin. It’s been referenced and homaged to this day. I should also mention Conway co created The Punisher.
One of the most enduring concepts that Star Trek ever created was the “mirror universe”. It’s one of my favorites and why not? The premise that our heroes are savages who will kill to get what they want is fascinating. It’s a chance to see our favorite characters out of character and having a little fun. Rather than review one episode, I decided to quickly run through all of them.
A few months ago I was ranking the crews by departments, until I kind of ran out because the different roles vary show to show. Only two shows have a communication officer (gee wonder who was better). Neither DS9 or Voyager had a navigator (Sulu or Paris? Not sure, Paris is a better pilot but Sulu has combat experience), Voyager had no science officer (Data, Dax or Spock, ugh). And TOS had no security officer (man Worf, Odo, or Tuvok who would you pick?!). So I was thinking if there was anything else and realized I could just decide which crew was the best.
So here’s a conundrum. This year is the 40th anniversary of one of my all time favorite movies. Star Trek IV was released in late 1986 and was a huge hit. It reignited the love of Trek and gave birth to Next Generation and everything that came afterwards. So what’s the problem? I’ve talked about this movie a lot over the years, so what’s left? I did an article on five things I “hated”. So many be this time I should the opposite!
Today I’m going to go over the moments I loved the most. I’ve seen this movie a million times even on an airplane, read the novelization and comic adaptation, and watched the dvd commentaries. So I know these scenes by heart. This movie was the first time I realized how adored Trek was by seeing it in a packer theatre that loved every second. I realized today I may have seen it the day it was released which may explain the exuberant crowd.
These are in not in any specific order
