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SKY-HI SCI-FI!!! THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), • || STAR TREK: THE THOLIAN WEB (1968), • || THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)
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* STAR TREK:
THE THOLIAN WEB (1968)  Kirk and the derelict Federation ship, The Defiant, are dissolved into a spatial 'interphase' between universes. To rescue him, Spock must anchor The Enterprise in space - despite a growing, violent hysteria onboard, of the same kind which destroyed The Defiant's crew - as well as confront a force field being laid around The Enterprise by Tholian patrol ships.  THE THOLIAN WEB is, after THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT, perhaps the best episode of the third - and final - STAR TREK season. The Enterprise finds the USS Defiant adrift in space, and Captain Kirk, accompanied by three crew members, beams down to investigate the situation - only to discover that The Defiant's crew have killed one another. Then, The Defiant completely 'dissolves' - before Captain Kirk can be beamed back aboard The Enterprise, and is counted as lost. Shortly thereafter, the starship crew find themselves trapped in hostilities with the completely alien Tholians - who view the presence of The Enterprise in their space as a hostile act. The Enterprise crew slowly start going berserk - in the same pocket of space where this manifestation previously destroyed the USS Defiant's crew. Meanwhile, Spock and McCoy bicker endlessly with one another over command, since Kirk is no longer around to referee their disputes. The situation seems hopeless, until Spock and McCoy listen to Kirk's pre-recorded (and touching) last testament, whence they decide to reconcile and work together to solve the ship's predicament. When Uhura sees Captain Kirk as a ghostly apparition, she thinks she too is going crazy like the rest of the crew, until Spock also sees Kirk floating etherially onboard. As the energy web being drawn by the Tholians around The Enterprise nears completion, with the ship facing imminent destruction, Spock manages to beam and hold onto the signature traces of Kirk's latest appearance, whereapon he quickly warps The Enterprise out of the nearly-finished Tholian Web. There is even a public memorial held by the crew in memory of Captain Kirk. THE THOLIAN WEB is one of the highlights of the third Trek season and certainly caught people's attention, since it was nominated for an Emmyâ„¢ in Special Effects ( - although it didn't win). This episode belongs among the top 20 Star Trek episodes, and shows what can happen when good script-writing and direction - qualities missing in many of the inferior episodes in the third season - come together. This may be the only Star Trek episode with two different directors: Ralph Senensky, who was fired midway through filming, thence to be replaced by Herb Wallerstein. Some have argued that it was unlikely a ship would allow itself to be trapped in the Tholian's Web, but the reason given for The Enterprise's action is 'logical': if Spock moved the ship, he risked disrupting the local space-time continuum, thereby losing all hope of locating and saving Kirk in time. Besides, you wouldn't want your local space-time continuum disrupted, in any case. Would you? Prod Cos: Paramount Television; Norway Corporation. Prod: Fred Freiberger. Dir: Herb Wallerstein. Wr: Judy Burns, Chet Richards. Created: GENE RODDENBERRY. Cast: WILLIAM SHATNER, LEONARD NIMOY, DEFOREST KELLEY, JAMES DOOHAN, GEORGE TAKEI, WALTER KOENIG, NICHELLE NICHOLS, MAJEL BARRETT. 50 mins. RM followed by: *THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)
 Come 26th December this year, we hear there'll be TWO
Mr. Carpenters amongst us - the one from Nazareth, and the other from
Hollywood, courtesy of the remake with some guy who isn't MICHAEL
RENNIE. He ain't gonna be the strapping big TIN guy, pictured standing next to Mr RENNIE above, either! We at Splodge! try
to be open to new filmic experiences, but maybe we just have to admit
to having a major problem with remakes - frankly, it's a case of
'someone is messing with our religion again' - if the truth be known! Either that, or we're just getting old and grumpy. So
we thought we'd head this one off at the pass, as it were, by dragging
the original out of the vault and celebrating the classy, yet - we will
still concede - preachy piece of work that it is
( - Klaatu, the second Mr. Carpenter, but the first of the second ones,
if you get our drift, has rather unsubtle - including his name -
allegorical connect-the-dots tracing back to the December 25 birthday
boy). In so doing, whatever happens on the 26th , we're covered!
The very epitome of a cult SF classic, the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is more often referred to than seen - which is a pity, since it remains, even now, one of the most thought-provoking examples of the genre. The
title is something of a misnomer, a mere tease to entice 1950s
audiences into the cinema, in the expectation of seeing another
sensationalist B-movie about ‘murderous aliens’ (read: ‘Communists’). Aside from its philosophical message, the film also boasts memorable imagery - notably the giant robot Gort ( - even RINGO STARR pastiched the film on the cover of his 1974 album GOODNIGHT VIENNA!); a much-quoted catchphrase: ‘Klaatu barada nikto’, and one of composer BERNARD HERRMANN's most admired scores, featuring the theremin, and other electronic instruments which must have sounded very outta-this-world, back in 1951. The result is a bona fide landmark in sci-fi cinema, with a central message about the human race getting its act together, which is as relevant today as it has ever been. Prod Co: Twentieth Century-Fox. Prod: Julian Blaustein.
Dir: ROBERT WISE. Wr: Edmund H. North.
Phot: Leo Tover. SPFX: Fred Sersen, L.B. Abbott, Melbourne A. Arnold
(robot builder), Ray Kellogg, Emil Kosa. Mus: Bernard Herrmann.
Theremin: Dr. Samuel Hoffman, Paul Shure. Cast: MICHAEL RENNIE,
PATRICIA NEAL, HUGH MARLOWE, SAM JAFFE, Billy Gray, 'SNUB' POLLARD. 92 mins. Courtesy of
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