"By Any Other Name" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2
Added 2024-06-28 19:00:07 +0000 UTCAnyone here named Kevin? :D
Comments
I have always enjoyed this episode, except for the yeoman being crumbled to dust. Even as a 12yo horny boy I thought the Kevin women were all beautiful and very fit unlike what we are forced to see today π‘π‘ And I love their uniforms; I wonder if we could find one for our favorite Bunny? ππ
Anthony Silva
2024-07-28 08:17:02 +0000 UTCOoh! Neat!
bunnytails
2024-07-06 19:14:22 +0000 UTCAnother fun reaction, Bunny. I never thought of the cubes as a D-20. So D & D of you. LOL. "It's Green !" And of course Apologies to ALL. π.
timothy w moyer
2024-07-01 01:53:34 +0000 UTCHanar, the Kevin second-in-command, is played by the same actor who played Tormolen, the crewman who caught the space madness and stabbed himself with a knife back in The Naked Time.
Preaching to the Horse's Mouth
2024-06-30 19:28:51 +0000 UTCHehe. I am not sure! My husband was out one day and happened to buy it and bring it back as a gift. I love it, though!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:48:06 +0000 UTCI just looked up the comparison. The original effect barrier definitely looked more menacing!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:47:11 +0000 UTCOh yes, for sure!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:43:27 +0000 UTCAh, good point! Too bad the Kelvins don't have their own type of non-interference protocol!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:43:09 +0000 UTCThank you Mark. He is working on it, but it's a chronic and mysterious thing, so it's not easy!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:42:27 +0000 UTCThanks!
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:41:09 +0000 UTCThank you Will :)
bunnytails
2024-06-30 16:41:04 +0000 UTCHappy to be of help! π
Lee
2024-06-29 18:52:50 +0000 UTCJulie Cobb, the yeoman, is the daughter of the iconic actor Lee J. Cobb. This is her first acting credit of a 40 year entertainment career.
Mark Chrisco
2024-06-29 17:11:51 +0000 UTCOk, I have to ask Bunny... What in all the holy Cubist, Culthuian, Mondrainian blouse are you wearing? It's like Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrain, and H. P. Lovecraft all got together and birthed that shirt. (it's a cool shirt. Very '60s design, and unusually appropriate for this Star Trek episode).
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-29 04:05:36 +0000 UTCI've stated this before, I actually like the original visual effects of the barrier. To me it seemed more dramatic than the new effects, sry STO Remastering Team, lol.
3dbadboy1
2024-06-29 04:03:25 +0000 UTCThey're going through "The Barrier" again... better hope there are no Espers on the ship. You remember what happened last time, don't you?
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-29 03:30:27 +0000 UTCRed Shirt Count: 14. Alas, Yeoman Thompson. (ok, I have to say it... it was the mid '60s... No way they would have taken the black dude out with all the racial troubles that were going on back then.)
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-29 03:23:17 +0000 UTCOh, BTW Bunny, the title "By Any Other Name" is an allusion to Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." (Ok, I wrote this before Kirk said it."
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-29 03:05:58 +0000 UTCThis episode juxtaposed against the last one is fascinating. In the previous episode, it was the Federation interfering with a less advanced culture. In this one, it's a more advanced culture interfering with the Federation.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-29 03:02:28 +0000 UTCYes, Hanar. Funny you mentioned that he was in 'Naked Time'. This time while watching this episode I had a nagging recall on that actor that I couldn't place where I had seen him before. Bingo. Trying to place him, my mind kept steering toward Anthony Perkins even though I absolutely knew it wasn't him. Thanks.
Mark Gosine
2024-06-29 01:31:24 +0000 UTCEntertaining installment. I love the drinking scene and had forgotten about it being in this episode. I'm glad I was enjoying a glass of bourbon while watching. It wasn't green. (green was said with a brogue accent) BTW, if I recall your husband was afflicted with something, I won't mention anything specific, so as not to get it wrong and mind your privacy, but I sincerely hope he has recovered.
Mark Gosine
2024-06-29 01:24:25 +0000 UTCI love this episode, even when I was a kid I loved it. It's quirky but entertaining. Great reaction Bunny!
ded cowbowee
2024-06-29 00:53:19 +0000 UTCThe title is of course from Romeo and Juliet, the great play. I guess the federation are the Montagues while the Kelvans are the Capulets, two sides that would like nothing better than to wipe the other out but learn to coexist in the end. Ships in the US Navy until after World War II were officially dry, meaning the only alcohol aboard was kept by the CMO for medicinal purposes. So you would see the captain when he wanted a drink going down to the sick bay for a glass of Saurian brandy. Scotty represents the crew's taking precautions to hide booze in their quarters. Favorite quote: Why don't you use your paralyzer? I very much appreciate the privilege of watching you as you get to the point of a story. Six degrees of Kevin Bacon indeed! You also have a sexy voice. Can't wait for the remainder of the season! Awesome π²
William Terry
2024-06-28 22:16:10 +0000 UTCThis episode is the very definition of tonal whiplash, but I agree that it works. The stakes are serious, but the senior officers are clearly enjoying themselves as they "stimulate" the Kelvans. Season two has included several comedic outings, but this is probably the strangest of them all. It's rare enough to have one callback to a previous episode, but this one has two: the aforementioned galactic barrier (first seen in "Where No Man Has Gone Before") and Spock's mind-touch to effect an escape (seen previously in "A Taste of Armageddon"). Is it continuity? Is it fanservice? Is it the inevitable result of ongoing world building? However you define it, I appreciate the writers and producers respecting the audience enough to draw from the show's past when it makes good sense to do so. Finally, there's a returning actor: Stewart Moss (Hanar) portrayed the doomed Joe Tormolen in "The Naked Time." (I don't know if anyone enjoys my frequent forays into casting trivia or not, but I'll continue to include them in my comments until such time as morale improves. LOL)
Lee
2024-06-28 22:06:37 +0000 UTCI generally consider this episode as just OK. I think Scotty's segments could have been shortened, but it was fun to watch him outdrink someone.
SuicuneSol
2024-06-28 21:28:09 +0000 UTCFun, kind of, two-tone episode with the dark half and the lighter resolution and, Bunny, you had me cracking up all over at the "Kevins"... good stuff. I like how TOS reminds us of the scale fo the Universe... they can't just go globe trotting all over it and are firmly confined (most of the time) to the Milky Way -- and yeah-- Andromeda looks way cool. Thanks for the good reaction : )
Skyman's Follies
2024-06-28 20:22:01 +0000 UTCI've always really liked this episode, as silly as it is, and even if it has numerous plot holes in the story. Sometimes Star Trek goes very serious and deep with it's plot lines, other times it just throws caution to the wind and decides to do a fun episode of the hell of it, and this is totally in the later case. The overall premise of the episode is solid -- aliens from another galaxy who are used to conquering everything and being superior to humans deciding to just take what they want by force. Even though Krik tells them there is plenty of room to co-exist, they are so ingrained in their customs and thoughts that it takes Kirk and his senior officers a more radical and dangerous plan to expose weaknesses in their new human bodies to get them to consider that perhaps Kirk might be right. The Barrier at the edge of the galaxy was something that came up before and it will come up again, but they are not consistent with how they handle it. So if you get confused by that, don't worry, your hardly alone. :) Great acting in this one -- I think this one is solid for the extreme emotions and great acting that is on display here. Kirk and Scotty do the best jobs, but McCoy, Spock, and the Kelvins also do a great job, and their commander for sure. Another episode that has a very extreme and abrupt end -- I wish they had shown a few more minutes about what happened then us just have to come up with it in our heads when the episode ends. I totally agree the episode has an abrupt shift in tone about half way through. I think in this case it works well, since it's a good blend of serious panic inducing stuff and comic relief stuff. Any chance that the writers had to show off very beautiful women in great outfits and Kirk using his full charm and personality to seduce them, they are going to take it with both hands. LOL I know you've played Alien Isolation, Bunny -- a lot of streamers and speedrunners have taken to calling the Xeno in that game as Kevin. :) I looked this up just now as I was curious -- the 'D20' blocks that the crew was turned into are actually a cuboctahedron. That is defined as: a polyhedron with 8 triangular faces and 6 square faces. A cuboctahedron has 12 identical vertices, with 2 triangles and 2 squares meeting at each, and 24 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a square. Finally, just to add on something else -- the symptoms that the Kelvins displayed on the planet is Agoraphobia. While that usually means someone is afraid of being in public, around other people, using transportation, etc. it can also mean a fear of open spaces. They have lived their whole lives in ships -- suddenly being thrust into a huge planet with all that open space was troubling. In the Fallout games and TV show, some of the people from the Vaults also express this fear when forced/leaving the vault to go into the outside world. In addition, Futaba from P5R could be said to suffer from this as well when you first meet her.
Greg Polander
2024-06-28 20:19:49 +0000 UTCI always enjoy ya videos
Eric Rinehart
2024-06-28 19:55:22 +0000 UTCHope you enjoy this one!
bunnytails
2024-06-28 19:53:46 +0000 UTCπ
Eric Rinehart
2024-06-28 19:07:49 +0000 UTC
