Awesome. Stupid as all hell … but awesome. My greatest memory is watching this episode with my mother and cracking up when Abe Lincoln comes flying up to the Enterprise in his big chair. The plot is basically, this horrible animatronic rock creature pits a group of good guys versus a group of bad guys. So he’s basically playing with his GI Joe toys, except using real people. All he needs to do is make a home-base out of books and a mountain out of a blanket … anyway.
The rock creature gets a group of evil doers that consist of Col. Green (think Hitler), Klingon Kahless, Zora and Genghis Khan. Trust me, it’s a formidable group, very tough and brutal. Now for the good guys. Um … Surak, Abe Lincoln, Kirk and Spock. Really??? This is the best that he could up with??? Surak and Abe both end up getting killed. Somehow Kirk and Spock win. This episode is so surreal and odd that it actually ends up being entertaining. The best scene is when Abe calls Uhura “a lovely Negress”. Finally Abe shows his true colors. This episode is hardly savage and does not involve a curtain, but it's very fun to watch. The only thing that would make it better is if Abe Lincoln had to fight a savage Jane Curtin.
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2 comments:
col green...so lame....it should have been hitler!! I like this episode too.
Time to make egress with this lovely negress
Yeah, this episode is the bomb (do people still say that? I do). Abe Lincoln should have been made a permanent crew member after this.
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