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Alright. Today is a big one with four episodes to cover, and the majority are ones I like, so without further ado, let's just jump right in. The first episode I watched was called Obsession, and it is about Captain Kirk encountering a cloud-like alien that had previously killed the majority of the crew, including the captain, of the starship Farragut, where he served as a lieutenant on his first deep space mission. This episode is a little strange as it was written as if it was a Moby Dick style story with Kirk doing anything he possibly can to kill the cloud creature. But where Star Trek normally tries to show every alien race as sympathetic in some way, this cloud creature is just a killer and the episode ends with the Enterprise crew successfully destroying it, so even the Moby Dick analogy falls apart because Kirk was right the whole time. It's a fine sci-fi episode, but I would have liked to see the cloud have some sympathetic traits or have it be a tragic villain, so as a...

Alright. Just one episode today due to having a busier day, but it's still something regardless. Today's episode was The Deadly Years. In it, Kirk and the crew encounter a planet where all of the members of a Federation research team have prematurely aged rapidly and have died off as a result. This unfortunately ends up getting transmitted to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty. The episode mainly focuses on the characters getting more old and senile as their physical bodies and their minds rapidly deteriorate, which I thought was well written. Regardless, I didn't really care for the episode, though, as it just kind of dragged, and most of it was about Kirk getting to the point where he can't command the Enterprise anymore because of his mental deterioration, which was fine, but, I don't know. The episode just didn't interest me. Again, this is a fine episode, just not one that stands out. Overall, this episode does what it was intended to do. It tells a story of ra...

Okay, it seems like I'm going to be doing two episodes a day for the time being, but we'll see what happens. Regardless, here are the next two episodes I watched. The first one I watched was called Journey to Babel. Although you would think that the setup, about a bunch of Federation delegates, including the Vulcan ambassador Sarek, who is Spock's father, traveling aboard the Enterprise to the planet Babel to discuss a new planet's induction into the Federation would lead to a more political thriller type episode, well, it doesn't. There are some elements of sabotage among the delegates, including a murder and an attempt on Captain Kirk's life, but what really stands out is the focus on Spock and Sarek's relationship. Sarek has been having heart problems, and only a blood transfusion from Spock during heart surgery will be able to save him. Spock has to choose between duty and his father, and while he is forced into saving his father, it is eventually shown ...

Guess who's back? It's me! I was kind of working through many things and trying to figure out how I wanted to do this, but I decided to start doing daily reviews of Star Trek in the leadup to another major block of reviews I have planned at an unspecified date within the next few months. Anyways, for now, it's back to the Original Series of Star Trek we go to pick up where I left off a long time ago. The first episode I watched is I, Mudd, and yes, it does indeed feature Harry Mudd from the season 1 episode Mudd's Women. This one is arguably my favorite Mudd episode, at least until Rainn Wilson portrayed him in Discovery, but I'll get to that much later. This episode focuses on Harry Mudd being marooned on a planet of androids who serve his every whim and he has convinced them to help him take over the Enterprise because he is bored with having everything come to him so easily. But, the androids just want the Enterprise for themselves so they can...help people and b...

What?! No, seriously. What?! I have no words for this...is this supposed to be a movie? This feels like a way to kill the franchise and run. Let's talk about this...thing, I guess. The plot has another astronaut named Brent, played by James Franciscus, crash land on the planet as well, because Charlton Heston didn't want to be in this movie all that much. The apes decide to go to war with telepathic humans who worship an atom bomb for some reason. It feels very disjointed and confusing. The acting was bland because the writing was bland. The action was okay, but without a good story to hold it up, it doesn't leave much of an impact. The mutants were confusing and I had no idea what their purpose was. The apes are barely in a movie called PLANET OF THE APES. WHY DOES THIS MOVIE EXIST?! This review is short because this movie was so bad that I literally have nothing more to say about it. It feels pointless and didn't add anything meaningful to the franchise. I'm shock...

Okay, so I wasn't sure how I would feel about this movie, but as I finally got to see it, I was pleasantly surprised. There were a lot of cool concepts that were explored in this film, and the best part was that it made me think, which is always great to see. The story concerns an astronaut named George Taylor, played by Charlton Heston, who, along with fellow astronauts Dodge and Landon, end up crash landing on a mysterious planet. After exploring it for a bit, they find that it is ruled by apes with human level intelligence, while the humans on the planet are mute and animalistic. The rest of the film talks about the rights of humans in a society where they are treated like nothing, which feels like it was very much intended to be paralleling human rights at the time of release, which was 1968, a very divisive time among people. The interesting thing about this film is that it isn't focused on action. The moments that stand out are the scenes where Taylor bonds and connects w...

I wish this was fantastic. I wish this was good. This seemed like it would be such a good series, and...it just wasn't. I'm devastated that this series was just okay, with lots of wasted potential. This is not what Lord of the Rings should be. The story is split up into several parts. We have the elf Galadriel, who teams up with a mysterious man named Halbrand to find and defeat the dark lord Sauron. There is a plotline about the Harfoots, which are basically Hobbits, whose peaceful life is shaken up when a man literally falls from the sky. We have the story of Elrond, another elf who attempts to enlist the help of the Dwarven prince Durin to help save the entire Elven race. And then we have the southlands, the viewpoint characters being an elf named Arondir and a woman named Bronwyn, and they have to contend with orcs attempting to take their lands over. Lots of plotlines, and a lot of them end up being...just okay. Like there are good scenes to all of them, except maybe the H...