Yes, it was Covenant, and I feel gratified that you took my advice. :)
I have also never seen Power from B7, also thanks to you :). (Nobody needs more Ben Steed episodes after The Harvest of Kairos.)
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.
I feel like the set could have greatly benefited from someone standing by with a rubber bat to gently but firmly bop Shatner on the head every time his ego got out of control ...
Speaking of Walter Koenig, isn't it weird to have seen him as Bester and go back to harmless Pavel Chekov?
So weird! Truly a situation where a multiverse portal swap would confuse everyone involved, and not only because Bester can pronounce the letter w.
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.
You would think that A Piece of the Action alone would convince Kirk of its value, never mind Patterns of Force, but yes, Picard seems to be the only captain who really cares about this. TNG does get a lot of good mileage out of the conflict between his Lawful impulses and his Good impulses.
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Date: 2018-06-04 03:57 am (UTC)I have also never seen Power from B7, also thanks to you :). (Nobody needs more Ben Steed episodes after The Harvest of Kairos.)
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.
I feel like the set could have greatly benefited from someone standing by with a rubber bat to gently but firmly bop Shatner on the head every time his ego got out of control ...
Speaking of Walter Koenig, isn't it weird to have seen him as Bester and go back to harmless Pavel Chekov?
So weird! Truly a situation where a multiverse portal swap would confuse everyone involved, and not only because Bester can pronounce the letter w.
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.
You would think that A Piece of the Action alone would convince Kirk of its value, never mind Patterns of Force, but yes, Picard seems to be the only captain who really cares about this. TNG does get a lot of good mileage out of the conflict between his Lawful impulses and his Good impulses.