#s1 ep17 'The Galileo Seven'

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THIS SCENEABWJHWSJIWIWIW

I love the crew all laughing together and clowning on Spock

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Review: Star Trek - The Original Series  'The Galileo Seven' (S1 Ep17)

It really took me a while to get my thoughts together on this episode.

Can Nimoy’s legs stop being so long? It’s distracting…...

This is definitely a good episode with some great exploration of Spock’s character. But I have some issues with it, namely that the plot felt messy and was clumsily forcing the confrontation between Spock and the crew.

This sort of thing usually does not bother me too much. After all, the development of theme and character are what’s important. But here it kept distracting me from the themes. What on Galileo Seven do you mean Plum when you say it was perfectly predictable how Bigfoot’s cousins would react? They’re not human!! I mean this is an alien species, who knows what an ‘emotional’ reaction look like with them? And wasn’t Spock trying to scare them away? Isn’t fear an emotion? So he *does* understand emotion? And – for  heaven’s sake woman why are you sitting on the ground like a schoolgirl?? Do you even do anything in this episode?

I miss Rand…

There’s definitely a lot that works here, and I found particularly interesting Jessie Gender’s explanation of the episode using a neurodiverse lens:

In my opinion, this story would have been much better however without the distraction of the fluffy boulders. Have the deadshirts die from say the atmosphere of the planet, or from wounds sustained during the landing

(I mean they didn’t have seatbelts, WHERE WERE THE SEATBELTS??? This schoolbus is not up to code…).

Have Spock’s moment of self-sacrifice arise from the problem of there being too much weight to lift-off. They had all the necessary elements there, they really didn’t need the teddy bears of doom.

Some more thoughts:

I know these are supposed to be tragic deaths, but the spears being gently tossed at the actors’ feet by low-budget Chewbaccas hardly conveys the terror that was intended. I think this is the first time the production has really broken the immersion for me. I really don’t care if a set is obviously cardboard and polysterene, it’s what you do with it that counts.

And Spock isn’t helping me take this all seriously by looking like a fed-up school teacher.

I love Scotty here though. Scotty is best. He was certainly the most helpful…

Also Kirk spending the entire episode worrying about his boyfriends is just *sigh*

Only to be outdone by Spock sending his bf a blazing message of hope.

These boys…

Next up: The Squire of Gothos

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cannot believe i just witnessed with my OWN EYES the gayest scene in star trek ever: the end of galileo seven (s1 ep17)