[Poll] Pick the next recap episode!

[thefourthvine]

So. My three-season DVD set of TOS arrived today. (I'm sorry, amireal; I COULD NOT WAIT. It was like a horrible sickness compelled me to spend a small fortune on ancient, overpriced, but remarkably awesome television. I don't know what came over me.) Obviously, the question is: what should I watch next? I could just do a poll with all the episodes in order, except a) 80 episodes, OMG and b) I'm really afraid you'd all pick Spock's Brain just to see me suffer. I know you, okay? You have a sick sense of humor.

So I went through the original suggestion post and I think I pulled out all the ones that got recommended there (if I missed anything that should be here for reasons of awesome, let me know), and I'm letting you guys guide me. (Although I cannot promise that the one with the most votes will be the first one posted or anything. The ways of Trek love are peculiar, unpredictable, and kind of unnatural, I'm finding.)

This, obviously, is for the dozen of you who have actually seen these episodes and who care which ones get recapped at ridiculous length next.


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Comments

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

Journey to Babel is one of my FAVORITES OMG. But omg, ENEMY WITHIN. MIRROR MIRROR. NAKED TIME. Dude, seriously, when my parents bought one of the FIRST VCRS back in 1983, they also bought four Star Trek tapes, WHICH I STILL OWN, and they were, I think, forty bucks for EACH TAPE? and SO WORTH IT. I imprinted on those four eps I mentioned up there. ♥ ♥ ♥ (It's awesome, b/c those VHS tapes weigh SO MUCH MORE than any tape you'd pick up today. God, I love the cusp of technology.)

SAVE Turnabout Intruder. SAVE IT. you have to BUILD UP TO IT.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

SAVE Turnabout Intruder. SAVE IT. you have to BUILD UP TO IT.

AGREED. The Kirk-and-Spock (and Kirk/Spock) stuff is SO STRONG-- and the rest of the story is so toxic-- and you really have to build up antibodies to both of them.

[cellia.livejournal.com]

YES. Turnabout Intruder is not for the weak Trek fan.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Your parents bought a VCR in 1983? And ACTUAL PRE-RECORDED TAPES? Holy shit.

(My family, of course, featuring my father, Dr. New Things Are My Primary Source of Stress, did not buy one for years. Which is just as well, because when we finally did, my sister and I made excellent use of the thing by renting the same handful of videotapes each weekend she was home from college, including two videos that we rented probably 50 times apiece. I was in college before I bought my first pre-recorded tape, and that was only because Best Beloved did some very sexy math and pointed out that my sister and I could have purchased all the tapes we rented all those years and used the rest of the money - including the late fees, remember late fees? - to buy, like, I don't know. A house or something. I still have to remind myself that buying DVDs isn't sinful.)

Mirror, Mirror has won, by the way. Now all voting is for second place.

...I'm really distressed by Spock's goatee. TRAUMATIZED, IN FACT.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. I just flashed back on an episode in my previous job at UCLA, in which (in the 90s some time) we retrieved from storage some of the earliest videotapes anybody knew about, from *1969*. Some one, some how, had taped (not ST, are you joking?) an eminent mathematician or physicist doing his best classroom lecture.

The tapes were two inches wide. And pretty much unsalvageable, sadly, so I never got to watch the thing myself. But just the thought of someone boldly recording video in the 8-track-music-tape era, trusting that the electrons-on-mylar technology would endure, was awesome in itself.