No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

logicheartsoul

So I found these old books of Star Trek episode adaptations at a local bookstore, and I completely lost it at “Bread and Circuses” because this is what the script became:

Spock wheeled - and this time McCoy caught him at it. There was an instant when he actually saw Spock composing his face into Vulcan impassivity. Then the instant was gone - and Spock raised an eyebrow.
“Really, Doctor?” he said.
McCoy thought “I am very fond of this man.” What he said was, “I know, I’m worried about Jim, too, Spock.”

And then the adaptation ends on Jim watching them bicker while considering how “dear” they are to each other and to him.

Which books are these @greenreticule? Title?

That is freaking mind blowing like…why would he have that kind of thought while having this deep conversation if Spock didn’t mean something to him? And that whole thinking one thing but another thing comes out of your mouth… I can see that happening to McCoy.

And Jim being fond of those two bickering while thinking about his feelings about them… That’s really, really something. Thank you for pointing it out! This is a lot to consider.

(Plus, my first submission from someone! This is really exciting! Thanks.)

SO THIS CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY

lateoctobermoon

It’s AMAZING. An incredible resource. Hell, it even tells me what fabric they used in most of the captions, which makes me GIDDY WITH GLEE.

I’ll make a post later about the really really cool things in here, but something happened when I first opened the book. This was the first thing I saw:

EHEHEHE WESLEY

ARE THOSE STIRRUP PANTS

wait
Nemesis Romulans had stirrup pants…? (top right)

Hold the phone

Even the Klingon ambassador’s dignity isn’t spared?!

and apparently you put them in pants that will never ride up.

Do you know what this means?

GUL DUKAT WEARS STIRRUP PANTS

classictrek

In an interview aired on the SciFi channel in 1997, DeForest Kelley talked about the character of Dr. McCoy and the life he’d chosen in space.

“The common thought was, of course, that he had a very unhappy marriage, divorced, with a daughter whose name was Joanna. But he’s a southerner, out of the south and I think he was such an unhappy guy that he joined the service and decided he would abandon what practice he had.”

While this is never stated outright in the series, it informs one of Kelley’s finest performances, in “For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky.”

The groundwork for the episode had been laid in the Star Trek offices by D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold. Both of them had ideas for episodes featuring elements that had appeared in the third-season love story.

Fontana had written a memo in March of 1967 stating that she was considering “a love story for McCoy which sees him resigning his commission, actually getting married, then tragedy bringing him full circle back to the Enterprise.” In May of that year, she turned in a story outline entitled “Rachel” that followed that idea.

A few months before Fontana wrote her memo, David Gerrold had sent in a treatment entitled “Tomorrow is Yesterday” (not to be confused with the episode of the same name) about an interstellar ark that was rejected by Gene Coon for being “too big” for the TV series.

When first-time writer Rik Vollaerts met with Fred Freibeger and pitched the story (which was then centered on Scotty), the executive producer responded to the idea with enthusiasm, seeing it as a synthesis between the various treatments he’d read.

Aware that they needed a good McCoy story for the third season, Freiberger shifted the love story to the good doctor. In an interview by Edward Gross that appears in Captain’s Logs, he said:

“I was trying to spread the material to the other actors. And I wanted to give DeForest Kelley something, because he was always just kind of hanging around without a lot to do. I wanted him to have something a little more solid.”

The idea that a middle-aged man can fall completely in love in just a matter of hours may seem a bit hokey to modern audiences, but Kelley’s abilities as an actor sell it completely. Like “The Empath,” “For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky” uses our favorite doctor to his fullest abilities and serves as a highlight on an underbudgeted and underbaked last season for Star Trek.

Red-legged Running Frog (Kassina maculata)

This small insectivorous nocturnal frog, reaching a length of up to 7.5 cm (SVL), is found in a variety of habitats, with permanent fresh water and general wet - moist surroundings, in tropical and subtropical areas along the East Coast of Africa. They belong to the family Hyperoliidae, the Sedge, Reed, and Bush frogs. The name of the “Walking or Running frogs,” in the genus Kassina, comes from their habit walking, in lieu of hopping as many frogs do, characterized by a deliberate stride.

photograph by Dick Bartlett

When lost in a new city, ask for directions from someone walking a dog.

lifepro-tips

Especially when exploring a tourist city, it can be hard to know who to ask. Someone walking a dog is most likely a local and will have good walking directions. Also asking about their cute dog is a great ice breaker for anyone nervous about asking a stranger for directions.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

SO THIS CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY

Red-legged Running Frog (Kassina maculata)

When lost in a new city, ask for directions from someone walking a dog.