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Thursday, 6 July 2023

A REALLY TALL GREEK GOD

Watching X-Men Apocalypse tonight I noticed something I recognised.

On a TV screen in someone's room, Storm's cellar, I saw a Star Trek episode playing. It was the one with Apollo in his temple, like Apocalypse the false God. I can't recall the name of the episode but it s musical motif was a two-note fanfare, which has stayed with me. The fanfare wasn't played in Apocalypse.

Completely coincidentally the fanfare was played tonight before X-Men, in Star Trek The Original Series, in an episode about a mineral which made people aggressive. The fanfare played when the huge citadels were shown.

Do you know the Star Trek Apollo episode I'm on about?

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25 comments:

  1. tony7/06/2023 8:55 pm

    Who mourns for Adonais.

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  2. Baron Greystone7/06/2023 10:15 pm

    I am the greatest fan of original Trek evah! Ask me anything. ;-)

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  3. KevinD7/06/2023 10:31 pm

    What are the 4 letters seen in various places in the Jeffries tubes and what are they reputed to stand for?

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  4. Baron Greystone7/06/2023 10:34 pm

    GNDN goes nowhere does nothing

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  5. KevinD7/06/2023 10:35 pm

    OK, you are the greatest fan ever!

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  6. MISH7/06/2023 11:18 pm

    Name the actors who have officially played Captain James T Kirk on TV (not including stand-ins, stuntmen, fans in fan versions, or comedy spoofs).

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  7. Baron Greystone7/07/2023 12:03 am

    I'm only a fan of the Original Trek, so Shatner is my Kirk. :-)

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    1. KevinD7/07/2023 7:21 am

      Wouldn't Sandra Smith count, from 'Turnabout Intruder'?

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    2. Baron Greystone7/07/2023 7:25 am

      Can't argue with your logic...

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  8. WOODSY7/07/2023 7:01 am

    Wasn't the pilot episode a different Kirk? Where was William?

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  9. KevinD7/07/2023 7:19 am

    The original pilot was made with Christopher Pike commanding the Enterprise (he was played by Jeffrey Hunter), but the powers that be didn't like it and wanted a second go. Shatner was cast for that one.

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    1. WOODSY7/07/2023 6:01 pm

      You are taking me where no Woodsy has gone before!

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  10. MISH7/07/2023 11:50 am

    Well spotted Kevin.
    That was my test.
    I think he maybe just crept ahead of you there Baron.
    I'd include myself too, but I didn't know the Jeffries Tube answer.

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  11. MISH7/07/2023 12:08 pm

    I was also looking for the new Kirk from 'Strange New Worlds', Paul Wesley.

    Here's another for you both.
    From Original Trek, what is Kirk's alternative 'official' middle initial.

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  12. KevinD7/07/2023 12:20 pm

    R ?

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  13. KevinD7/07/2023 12:20 pm

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  14. MISH7/07/2023 12:42 pm

    Bang on Kevin !
    It is seen on the gravestone prepared for Kirk by the character Gary Mitchell using his 'superpowers', in the second pilot, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'.
    It reads James R Kirk, not 'T'.

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  15. Bill Everatt7/07/2023 12:44 pm

    "T" = Tiberias...

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  16. WOODSY7/08/2023 11:57 pm

    Is the Next Generation as well loved as the original series?

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