Yes, it was Covenant, and I feel gratified that you took my advice. :)
re: William Shatner - I do think he's one of those actors who benefits from strong direction. Walter Koenig writes in his memoirs that when they shot Generations, Shatner for the first time since eons got told by a director to play a scene differently than he'd done, and took the direction without any tantrum, which made Koenig reflect self critically that all them had done their share of making the Bill the Egomaniac situation possible simply but not standing up to him.
Speaking of Walter Koenig, isn't it weird to have seen him as Bester and go back to harmless Pavel Chekov?
re: Prime Directive, I think the only ST series who a) took it seriously, and b) did interesting things with it was TNG. On TOS I had the impression it was just there so Kirk could go up against it. On TNG Picard actually tried to work with it, and we got reflections on the damage done to indigenious cultures in ye conquistador days as an explanation of why it was originally developed.
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Date: 2018-06-03 03:36 pm (UTC)re: William Shatner - I do think he's one of those actors who benefits from strong direction. Walter Koenig writes in his memoirs that when they shot Generations, Shatner for the first time since eons got told by a director to play a scene differently than he'd done, and took the direction without any tantrum, which made Koenig reflect self critically that all them had done their share of making the Bill the Egomaniac situation possible simply but not standing up to him.
Speaking of Walter Koenig, isn't it weird to have seen him as Bester and go back to harmless Pavel Chekov?
re: Prime Directive, I think the only ST series who a) took it seriously, and b) did interesting things with it was TNG. On TOS I had the impression it was just there so Kirk could go up against it. On TNG Picard actually tried to work with it, and we got reflections on the damage done to indigenious cultures in ye conquistador days as an explanation of why it was originally developed.