August 22, 2011

Star Trek: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

Data
Title: Star Trek“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”
Year: 1969
Network: NBC
Episode: the fifteenth (of twenty-four) from season three; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Oliver Crawford; story by Gene L. Coon
Starring: William Shatner
With: Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Frank Gorshin, Lou Antonio, James Doohan
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Fred Steiner
Cinematography: Al Francis
Editing: Donald R. Rode
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently a few days ago (have on DVD)
Synopsis: star-bellied sneeches (in Space!)

My reaction
Concept:1/4 (Bad)
Story:1/4 (Bad) It starts out promising, until they run out of ideas and give somebody god-like powers.
Characters:2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog:2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing:0/4 (Terrible)
Cinematography:2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design:4/4 (Great)
Acting:3/4 (Good)
Music:4/4 (Great)
Subjective Rating: 4/10 (Eh, 2/4 (Indifferent)). Moralizing nonsense, made nearly unbearable by terrible pacing. There's enough script here for a 30-minute episode, tops.
Objective Rating (Average):2.1/4 (Okay)

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