tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post7021088844872102689..comments2024-02-28T09:34:58.074-08:00Comments on NATURALISTIC! UNCANNY! MARVELOUS!: STAR TREK: "THE OMEGA GLORY" (1968)Gene Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post-46698129026048380812017-01-26T21:00:33.571-08:002017-01-26T21:00:33.571-08:00Yes. I prefer the look of the Desilu Star Trek, bu...Yes. I prefer the look of the Desilu Star Trek, but that's me. When Paramount took charge the series changed somewhat, slightly, for sure, but noticeable. The quality didn't decline particularly.john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post-2407728407877348772017-01-20T14:45:34.272-08:002017-01-20T14:45:34.272-08:00Thanks for the input, John. I agree that ST probab...Thanks for the input, John. I agree that ST probably got cut off at just the right point. While there are some bad third-season episodes, I don't think that even the worst ones are as bad as, say, rotten LOST IN SPACE episodes.<br /><br />Moreover, since the second and third seasons have them economizing by raiding the Paramount costume dept., imagine how ridiculous the fourth season would have become. Pirate planets! Hardboiled detective planets! Planets that recapitulate the Iliad and/or the Odyssey! (Of course, when the later TREK-spawn did this kind of thing, they could confine it to their holodecks-- which is at least a little more logical, though not necessarily more entertaining.)Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post-15716950233099226402017-01-18T19:18:02.129-08:002017-01-18T19:18:02.129-08:00I enjoyed The Omega Glory, Gene, didn't take i...I enjoyed The Omega Glory, Gene, didn't take it too seriously. If anything it seemed playful, as if Roddenberry was having a romp. It was one of the few episodes I actually remember seeing first run, and the people,--kids, teens mostly--I was watching it with were really in the groove of it, liked it a lot. Now, in the New Millennium, it plays differently, more like a time capsule, but a smart one. They really tried a little bit of everything on Star Trek, it seems. It's probably just as well that it ran for only three seasons, with enough episodes for it to play well in reruns, but not so many as to wear out its welcome.<br /><br />The great question, the "might have been"--as to what it would have been like if it had ran another few years is, I believe, part of its charm, its "eternal legacy", as it were, making it rather the James Dean series of classic television. Imagine what might have been if it had run several more seasons. I don't think it would be nearly so popular, what with the (oh no!) Kent State episode and probably more than a couple of Watergate ones.<br /><br />It's always, btw, good to read your reviews.john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.com