This has always been a favourite first season episode of mine - not because of the Salt Demon - but the fly-on-the-wall introduction to the Enterprise crew when they're *not* on duty; so many little moments you wouldn't normally get in the series. There's even that little scene on the bridge where Uhura is flirting with an uncomfortable Mr Spock. Good to know that the buffalo are making a comeback. Now I wonder how the humpback whales are fairing...
The question "Did they bang?" could be raised about Uhura and a lucky odd-job crewman named "Bobby" who Uhura asks to drop by her quarters later, "because her door still rattles when she opens it" (if I remember it correctly) - right before she encounters the Salt Vampire/Swahili man.
One of the things people today don't understand about shows of the 1960s and into the 70s is the influence of the old white men who ran the network, especially pertaining to the portrayal of women. All scripts had to be approved by network suits before they were allowed to be shot so most producers, like Roddenberry, had to work in obvious old-fashioned ideas of the treatment of women and female behavior to please these old men while sneaking in more progressive ideas under the radar. Women working traditional male jobs had to have a romantic side story like the JAG prosecutor who was Kirk's former flame or the weapons officer who was supposed to marry her superior. And the handful of times a woman was in Sulu or Chekov's chair was probably where scripts were approved with the character listed with just a last name before Roddenberry cast a female actor without network knowledge, at least until they saw the finished episode. Network bosses were stuck in the 1930s and producers fighting to portray women in a modern light was very common. Carl Reiner had to battle the network just to allow Mary Tyler Moore the ability to WEAR PANTS on the Dick Van Dyke Show. And when Aaron Spelling pitched Charlie's Angels in the mid 1970s, the network bosses were confused that there wasn't a male character in the cast whose job was to rescue the women when they were endangered or captured by the bad guys. "The Angels can rescue themselves" was Spelling's response. It was such a foreign concept to the suits that Spelling was still forced to jump through even more hoops to get an apparently revolutionary idea ordered to series despite his open contract with the network to produce more shows. So if the treatment and behavior of women in these early era TV shows seems straight out of the stone age, it's mostly likely the influence of the cavemen running the networks, not the producers
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This has always been a favourite first season episode of mine - not because of the Salt Demon - but the fly-on-the-wall introduction to the Enterprise crew when they're *not* on duty; so many little moments you wouldn't normally get in the series. There's even that little scene on the bridge where Uhura is flirting with an uncomfortable Mr Spock.
Good to know that the buffalo are making a comeback. Now I wonder how the humpback whales are fairing...
@andrewhelm2813 So true! We got a big kick outta that when it came up! I kept thinking "More Character moments for Uhura! Please."
You guys are funny and truly have gone where no man has gone before. Hahaha
Gotta love some nerding out on Star Trek.
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Great second episode!
Thanks Gust, a person I’ve never met before…😊
The question "Did they bang?" could be raised about Uhura and a lucky odd-job crewman named "Bobby" who Uhura asks to drop by her quarters later, "because her door still rattles when she opens it" (if I remember it correctly) - right before she encounters the Salt Vampire/Swahili man.
Holy crap! I did not catch that! Good eye @andrewhelm2813 !!!
I tried that Weller whiskey the weekend. It was pretty good.
i never found out what, exactly, IS the significance of salt is in a desert environment!?
Helps against dehydration? Is that right? Hey, thank you for subscribing!
@@EdithKeelersEdgeofForeve-zl3pd Yes, definately the dehydration factor. For some reason salt makes you hold more water....
One of the things people today don't understand about shows of the 1960s and into the 70s is the influence of the old white men who ran the network, especially pertaining to the portrayal of women. All scripts had to be approved by network suits before they were allowed to be shot so most producers, like Roddenberry, had to work in obvious old-fashioned ideas of the treatment of women and female behavior to please these old men while sneaking in more progressive ideas under the radar. Women working traditional male jobs had to have a romantic side story like the JAG prosecutor who was Kirk's former flame or the weapons officer who was supposed to marry her superior. And the handful of times a woman was in Sulu or Chekov's chair was probably where scripts were approved with the character listed with just a last name before Roddenberry cast a female actor without network knowledge, at least until they saw the finished episode. Network bosses were stuck in the 1930s and producers fighting to portray women in a modern light was very common. Carl Reiner had to battle the network just to allow Mary Tyler Moore the ability to WEAR PANTS on the Dick Van Dyke Show. And when Aaron Spelling pitched Charlie's Angels in the mid 1970s, the network bosses were confused that there wasn't a male character in the cast whose job was to rescue the women when they were endangered or captured by the bad guys. "The Angels can rescue themselves" was Spelling's response. It was such a foreign concept to the suits that Spelling was still forced to jump through even more hoops to get an apparently revolutionary idea ordered to series despite his open contract with the network to produce more shows. So if the treatment and behavior of women in these early era TV shows seems straight out of the stone age, it's mostly likely the influence of the cavemen running the networks, not the producers
@@dangerousdavescott thank you for your thoughtful comments. No debate from here. You are right on 👍!