A Great Disappointment

Went to see the remastered original Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" on the big screen last night.  It was great - we had a lot of fun - but I was very disappointed to see that no one dressed up in Starfleet uniforms or Spock ears. The audience was very tame, and the theater was only three-quarters filled. I was hoping for something more along the lines of this. Had my camera with me and was all prepared to snap away and post the pics here.  But alas, the scene was one of ordinary, every day movie goers. The only funny costumes and make up were worn onscreen.

The episode did look wonderful. Before it came on there was a brief clip narrated by Gene Roddenberry's son describing the remastering process and showing a bit of how it looked both before and after for comparison. 

But, as my husband said, 40 years old is 40 years old. There were parts where the audience laughed out loud at the campiness of it all - the green dancing girl that no man can resist, Bones getting all grumbly over one thing or another, and Shatner's scenery chewing acting technique.  But the same things that made us laugh were also the things that made the show so good.  It had personality that none of the Star Trek series that came later could hold a candle to, in my opinion.

 

Reports and commentary from people who attended viewings in England, Canada and all over the US can be found here. You'll have to scroll through all the pre-screening comments to get the post-screening remarks.

Comments

[DRaftervoi]

Okay...so who did YOU dress up as? Yeoman Rand? Nurse Chapel? Number One? T'Pring?

By the way, I look almost EXACTLY like that guy up there in the first photo, except I wouldn't be caught DEAD wearing a medallion. How very 1960s...

[Gail]

Gosh, you must have trouble finding hats.

I did not dress up. I might have dressed as Captain Janeway if I did.

[draftervoi]

No, finding hats is easy. I just IMAGINE the hat, and there it is.

[oceanguy]

The Orion Slave Girls! How can that possibly get a laugh?

[Gail]

OG: It wasn't the girl that caused the laugh actually, but the men in the bar drooling and exchanging hubba-hubba glances with one another.