Star Trek & The Art of Foreshadowing: Lost Ending Reloaded
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This is the ending of my video on how Star Trek used foreshadowing. It was accidentally deleted along with a beginning section I trimmed due to a copyright claim. I've added a new, short into to this video for context.
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It served many purposes: To highlight (showing rather than simply explaining) how powerful and intense the illusions could be.
Also, to showcase different aspects of both Vina and Pike. First, she is like a woman created among scientists with an aura of mystery. Then a damsel (princess?) in danger in need protection. Then a devoted wife. And then a sensuous animal.
With each failed attempt, she resorts to another tactic, another side of what she thinks will be vulnerable in Pike.
Also, it is possible that with each different setting, instead of creating alien worlds, they just saved some cash by re-using wardrobe and items from previous productions.
I like the way you lay out the interactions between Vina and Pike. I think you're absolutely right. It was almost as though she was growing more desperate with ever attempt to win him over. It was probably his love for his ship that kept him from falling for her.
@@MetaTrek Yep. Pike in this episode, while still being vulnerable and hurt and somewhat doubting his own abilities after a mission that ended with crewmen injured and killed is still grounded on truth and reality. The Talosians did probe his mind and know that the recent ordeal has hurt him emotionally, this is why they attempt to make him feel like he is protecting and saving Vina at first. Then they explore his pity towards her and his desire to live in peace. And then, finally, they resort to his most basic sexual desires and instincts.
That picnic scene in particular could have easily have taken place in the 20th or 21th century. There was nothing futuristic about it. Even their clothes seemed quite regular.
While ST was still in an embryotic form at this stage we can see that Pike operated as a proto-Kirk in the sense that no temptation, no matter how attractive and pleasant would make him abandon his starship.
And also, the propensity by the producers to always try to trick the budget limitations by finding clever ways to re-use regular assets from medieval settings, 30s mafia depictions, 40s second world war, or even contemporary stuff.
The seeds for these tendencies were already germinating on the pilot episode.
You bring up a lot of valid points. Roddenberry even had a term for his clever way of re-using sets and props from other productions, he called it "Hodgkins law of Parallel Planet Development."
Nice. Was wondering what happened to the previous ending. Will there be any more new videos soon?
Yes. We are releasing them bi-weekly.
@@MetaTrek awesome
At 0:23 What is that face she makes? It comes out of nowhere. I can't not see it every time I watch this or the Menagerie.
It is cringe-worthy. I have always felt the same way. I have no idea what to call that one!
@@MetaTrek
Over acting perhaps? 😏
The term "illusion" might be misused in this video. "Illusion" refers to a trick, something that isn't what it appears to be. "Allusion" is a reference to something outside the main story or stories in a work of fiction, and CAN include backstories, but typically do not. Just FYI.
I used the word "illusion" in reference to the experiences Pike and Vina were experiencing. Maybe there's a better word for it, "hallucinations" perhaps?
@@MetaTrek No. "Illusion" works just fine. I misunderstood. The meaning "eluded" me. 😜
If anything, you "allude" to a deeper meaning which exceeded the depth of thought contained within.
The giant is "Lurch".He was not listed.
I'd rather serve under Pike than Kirk .
That's an interesting position to take. Any specific reason why? Since Spock served under both, do you think he might have preferred Pike as well?
@@MetaTrek While I would be happy serving under Kirk, Captain Pike has always been one of my favorite characters even though we only got him on the first episode. I think it's that conversation with the Doc in his quarters that did it for me.
We know Pike was Spock's CO for around 15 years, and Spock was willing to risk his career and life for the man to live out the remainder of his years in fantasyland. That says something. But we will never know how many crewmen he lost during that time. Kirk always takes it on the chin for all the redshirts he lost, but we have no comparison for how that stacks up to other captains. We do know that half a dozen other captains lost their entire ships with all hands. Kirk came close a couple of times to that, still, he always won. As Uhura said in STTMP when Kirk took command back from Decker: "The possibility of our returning from this mission in one piece may have just doubled." That's not something a bridge officer would say lightly.
What we do see from Pike's conversation with the doctor is that losing people makes him want to resign and do something else. That's burned -out quitter talk.