Watching more TOS, especially S1, since my aunt&uncle got the BluRay version and gave me their old copy of S1, yay. (Also, I watched a few episodes over at their place, and I have to say, the BluRay version looks AMAZING. Way better than even regular remastered episodes.)
Random thoughts: The yeomen (yeomans?) drive me nuts. I swear it's like they're having a Livia's Least Favorite Yeoman contest and every new yeoman purposely is ten times worse than the last one. Yeoman Rand is all right, but I wish she wouldn't look so sad all the time. It makes me sad even when her scenes aren't sad. (Which is like ten percent of the time, but still.) Seriously, she looks like she spends all her offscreen time weeping and all her onscreen time resenting whatever she's doing because it's cutting into important weeping time. Although I do think it's somewhat (sadly) amusing that whenever she's being attacked (like in "Charlie X" and "The Enemy Within") she yells for Spock, specifically, as opposed to just a general security team or even Kirk. I have to say I'd probably yell for Spock too.
Episode specific thoughts:
"Charlie X"
-- Okay, so Charlie is doing magic tricks, right, and one of the things he does is flip over some playing cards to show that they've got pictures of Yeoman Rand on them. And we the audience know he's doing it with his CRAZY Q POWERS, but from Yeoman Rand's perspective, um, apparently Charlie has been secretly following her around, photographing her without her knowledge (including one kind of sexy pose, iirc) and then sticking those pictures onto playing cards and just waiting for the right moment to whip them out for a party trick. GAH.
-- Really, Kirk, "why is it wrong to walk up to a woman and smack her on the butt?" is such a confusing question that it requires three paragraphs of circuitous flailing before being like "uh, whatever" and running away? Come on! You should at least be able to quote him some kind of Starfleet regulation. Seriously, the idea of Kirk being anyone's strong masculine father figure is hilarious. (Although in the episode, "being a father figure" seems to mostly consist of giving authoritarian orders in a steely voice and looking really goddamn disgusted when those orders aren't followed, so who knows.)
-- This episode kind of hints that Uhura and Rand are friends, in that they're hanging out in the rec room together, and Rand seems to instantly know that Uhura is thinking to herself, "I totally should serenade Spock with a hilarious song about what a GQMF he is, just for lols" and then silently encourages her to do it. This is pretty early on in shooting order, so Spock is smiling a bit more just in general, but still, he totally smiles at Uhura and happily (literally!) plays along while she sings.
"The Enemy Within"
-- The little alien dog thing is the best thing ever. It just makes me SHRIEK with laughter whenever it's on screen. Mostly because it too looks like it wishes it had tear ducts so that it could weep at its cruel fate. But also because it never walks anywhere, and people are just forced to carry it around like the ugliest baby ever. I'm just going to pretend Rand adopted it and they lived happily ever after.
-- Someone totally needs to write fic about Sulu being canonically forced to huddle for warmth with two or three strapping, manly engineers. Come on, fandom, don't tell me nobody went there. (I would also accept amusing macros.)
-- Every other "The Enemy Within" review I've seen has already mentioned how totally fucked up it is that, on the Enterprise, apparently the standard procedure for "woman accuses superior officer of rape" is "take shaken-up woman, stick her in a chair, have that superior officer and his two best BFFs crowd in and loom over her and tell her she's craaazy." So take it as read, that sucked. But can I just say, I was very pleased by Fisher, the guy who actually dragged himself out of his sickbed after taking a beatdown from Evil!Kirk in order to stick up for Rand and be like, "No, actually, it WAS you, dude. I kind of fucking saw you." And Kirk of course storms over to him and goes "do you know what you're saying, mister?" ... which is, tragically, pretty much exactly what you'd say if you *had* tried to rape your yeoman and were trying to intimidate a junior officer into not backing up her statement. So, minus ten thousand points from Kirk, but rainbows and little sparkly hearts for Fisher.
-- CREEPY ASS comment from Spock to Rand at the end of the episode. Seriously, what the hell is that. I'm just going to pretend that he was actually attempting to express sympathy for her getting attacked and it just came out wrong, like, some random Vulcan thing that didn't translate cross-culturally, because otherwise, GROSS.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
-- Heh, it was really nice of everyone to not make a big deal out of Spock suddenly forgetting how to MODULATE THE VOLUME OF HIS VOICE intermittently during this episode. Man, I would have loved it if they'd stuck with the "Spock must ALLCAPS all lines while on the bridge" aspect of the character. I mean, for one thing, it would make episodes with intra-Vulcan dialogue extra hilarious.
-- Like I said over in such-heights'
episode rewatch post, it's totally not slashy that Mitchell got so irritated with Kirk's high academic standards(?) that he plotted to hook up a woman with Kirk and "outlined her whole strategy for her" to the point where Kirk almost married her. TOTALLY NOT SLASHY AT ALL. *coughs*
-- Dr. Dehner totally isn't dead. She left her body and is living all ghostly-like on Delta Vega. Probably it helps to be less bound by human frailties if you don't have all those hormones and brain chemicals messing you up all the time. Anyway, yes.
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