Spock's Theme

[Frumius]

I have always loved "Spock's Theme" from the Original Series. You know that awesome melancholy base and/or violin that starts up when Spock is having especially Vulcan moments? And now I've found it on the web! And it's downloadable! Here it is:
http://www.trekconnection.com/sounds/midi/

You don't have to download it do listen to it, but if you do d/l it, it comes in a midi file that's incredibly small ( as in 4 kilobytes!) and you can put it right into GarageBnd and start playing with its 4 tracks, effecting it in different ways, etc. But it's neat all by itself, though I don't like all the sounds in it. But I can just turn those sounds off or change them in GarageBand! It's my favorite music from Star Trek TOS.

Of course, then there's the one (Plato's Step Children) where Spock actually sings...

"Take care young ladies and value your wine
"Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime
"Deeply (gladly?) they'll swallow from your finest kegs
"Then swiftly be gone,
"Leaving bitter dregs.

"Ohhhh, oh, bitter dregs.

"With smiling faces and tender touch
"Man offers little, but asks for so much
"He loves in the breathless excitement of night
"Then leaves with your [something] in cold morning light

"Ohhh, oh, in cold morning light..."

Something like that. That was from memory.

Plato's Step Children also had TV's first interracial kiss, between Kirk and Uhura. Later, in the '70's Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) kissed my dad! My dad said she was pretty sweet.

[Baak]

Bitter Dregs!

Yeah, that's one awesome piece of music. Most of the TOS music is awesome - except for the la-dee-da music when Spock is infected with the spores - that one gets to me a bit.

I read in William Shatner's book on Star Trek (there were two of them - both half-ghost-written but excellent imo - think it was Star Trek Memories and Star Trek Movie Memories) that they didn't actually kiss, but made it look like they did. The rest is history.


Wasn't Nichelle Nichols having an affair or allegedly having an affair with Gene Roddenbery off and on for years and/or with him before Majel Barrett? Seem to recall something along these lines...

She definitely played a great character in the series. Apparently at one point she was thinking of leaving and Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke with her personally about staying. She was a pioneering character in a series which was all about a future where equality was the norm. Interesting stuff.


Just saw George Takei (Sulu) in a Mission Impossible episode the other day. He was quite good. Been seeing extras from TOS by the dozens now.

And there are some sets from MI that look like they were used in TOS episodes! There's a hallway with an elevator at the end that I believe was re-used in more than one TOS - heavily modified - and amazingly has been re-used in THREE different MI episodes so far and we're only on the 4th DVD! Ha!

AND there is some incidental music in MI that sounds mighty similar to that in TOS. Looks like a different person credited for it though (I've been watching) - wonder if they worked together and/or the guy from TOS (forget his name now) wasn't credited in the MI work?


As I've mentioned before we see TOS people all over Perry Mason too. There is an episode with Leonard Nimoy that is one of the very best. Was amazed the first time we saw it. Am looking forward to seeing it again.

[Frumius]

...that they [Kirk and Uhura] didn't actually kiss, but made it look like they did. The rest is history.

Mb that's just Shatner being a poopoo head, as I have heard that he was around his Kirk role. Why the hell wouldn't he have WANTED to actually kiss her? She was wery beautiful (As Checkov said it to the Klingon woman Mara, in Day of the Dove, as he had her pressed against the wall just before covering her mouth with his.) Hey, that was interracial, too (Human-Klingon!)

But when Nichols kissed my Dad, that was real -- and interracial!

[Two Saks]

Uhura was wery beautiful, the foxiest woman on the ship. But if I could choose any of TOS babes...it would be Roger Corby's android assistant hands down. MAN, the possibilities with that machine. Would make being stuck miles beneath the surface alot more interesting

"THAT was the equation!"

I remember going on a long run with NKI in the old days, and we came up with a hilarious spoof of that eposide (not for the kiddies...). Had to stop running from the laughter ::calling NKI::: :::calling NKI:::

[Baak]

Oh man, I am SO with you TS! She tops the list for me as well.

Whoever designed her outfit in that episode deserves some kind of medal.

Smokin'...!!


Frum: I'll dig that book out as Spring approaches (starting to go through stuff and reorganize a bit) - as far as I can recall it was a mutual decision between them but I can't recall if it was to quell the censors (i.e. they didn't actually kiss) or what. Interesting too, Shatner in those books reminded me of the way Captain Taggert "came around" in GalaxyQuest to being less egocentric - in fact, the parallel was amazing. Wondered if it wasn't based on real life.

[Baak]

Thought this was a great snapshot of Andrea. Caption sums it up well.

Found the entire script here - on a czech site! Funk.

[Frumius]

Aye, that IS a great shot of her, and there are plenty more at the link you provided. Now I see why we need androids. THOUsands of them.

[vinylrake]

Oh man, I am SO with you TS! She tops the list for me as well.
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For regular cast I always though Yoeman rand was attractive - but Uhura definitely had a more knowing way about her. Much more earthy and sensuous.

For non regular cast, I would nominate

Yoeman Smith,Dr. Noel, or mb Specialist Lt. Mira Romaine
or for general ST TOS babes:

Spock's fiance - T'ping, Kanuto Nona, Lt. Martha Landon, Lt. Marlena Moreau or for sheer babe-a-tude ; Drusilla the slave girl in "Bread and Circuses".

and if we are counting cyborgs and robots, my votes go to

Definitely tops (echoing TS) is Andrea (from "What are Little Girls made of?"), Alice 471 (the Harry Mudd episode), and Rayna (Requiem for Methusaleh)

[Global Killer]

Frum, sometimes I worry about you. You arent fluent in Klingon, are you????

lol

[Frumius]

Definitely tops (echoing TS) is Andrea (from "What are Little Girls made of?"), Alice 471 (the Harry Mudd episode), and Rayna (Requiem for Methusaleh)

Alice 471? Are you kidding? I hated her. But I loved Alice 420.

But you are right about Mira Romaine, Marlena Moreau and Nona, Tyree's K'Nutu (Made up the spelling) woman. Turn them into androids with Andrea and, ghol-ly! You'd have the makin's for some serious fun. Oh, and waitaminit -- it was Alice 69 I liked.

Frum, sometimes I worry about you. You arent fluent in Klingon, are you????

heh, no, but when I was in Evanston, Illinois last you could take a class in it at Northwestern.