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1x21 - The Return of the Archons
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Rating Star Trek TOS costumes because why not! (part 3)
The Squire of Gothos (1x17). I wish I had half as much fun doing anything as this dandy did fucking with the crew of the Enterprise. The costume is fun and very cheap-looking but that goes without saying when it comes to TOS. Sure wish they'd given him pants that matched though, 7/10.
Arena (1x18). If you don't like this costume then chances are you take TOS too seriously. Just look at it! This is camp, mama. His stiff plastic face, his lifeless eyes, his gratuitously buff body, that shiny little dress and fingerless leather gloves. Whoever they had wearing that thing in the blaring California sun was braver than any US marine. I love him, 100/10.
Court Martial (1x20) I'm into the 23rd century schoolgirl vibe of it all but this costume looks cheap even by TOS standards and something about the cut is very awkward. 4/10.
Also from Court Martial and man the costuming department was letting these ladies down. Areel is a classy broad but this dress is not it; it just kind of looks like a giant handkerchief. 5/10.
The Return of the Archons (1x21). Silly little outfit brigade reporting for duty! They look like they're in a school play 😭😭 Adorable with just a hint of dashing, 8/10.
A Taste of Armageddon (1x23). Someone needs to tell this man he's wearing a potato sack, though judging by his expression he already knows. 1/10.
These costumes are incredibly goofy but my favorite part is the background actors desperately clinging to their dignity, a battle that was lost the minute they put those hats on. 7/10.
#star trek#star trek tos#rating star trek#you bet your ass i'm doing more of these!#i skipped over khan's episode bc i wasn't comfortable with the brownface of it all#but otherwise i'm trying to cover all the interesting costumes
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kinda homophobic they gave only gave spock a cloak in 1x21 The Return of the Archons, I WANNA SEE HIM IN SLUTTY WESTERN CLOTHES !!!
#the cloak is slutty#dont get me wrong#but like a little bow tie and vest#HED BE CUTE#AND SLUTTY#please#spock#spirk#tos spirk#st tos#star trek the original series#star trek
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[tv review] tos 1x20-1x21 (1967)
1x20 “court martial”
star trek is pretty much always good at courtroom episodes. this one is no exception. the beats are very predictable, and there isn’t anything groundbreaking and thematically brilliant here like in “the measure of a man” or essential to the franchise’s mythology in ways that are still reverberating 50 years later like “the menagerie,” but i still love a good courtroom episode. b-rank
1x21 “the return of the archons”
the first of many entries in the saga of captain kirk lawyering a computer to death! plus, the purge lite.
this is your pretty typical tos “well, it’s not bad by this show’s standards but it’s certainly not good” messes, and maybe you think i’m rating those too low, but the fact is i’d rather watch a bad episode of tng or any post-tng series than a middling episode of tos. d-rank
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1x21 - The Return of the Archons
5/10. A slow-paced episode this time around, with a mystery unfolding on a planet that hosts eerie natives and the remnants of the lost starship Archon. After Sulu returns from a recon mission on Beta III, he is unnaturally placid and unresponsive to his crewmates. Kirk and co. beam down to see what happened, and are confronted with a society that engages in what can only be described as the Purge, at least from my 21st century perspective. The planet’s inhabitants are being controlled by an entity called Landru, who has organised them with uncanny precision into a community that commit to absolute tranquility outside the ‘festival’ - A.K.A the Purge. Kirk and Spock work to unravel the scheming of this Landru, enlisting the help of some seditious natives, and manage to uncover the fact that this godlike being is in fact an ancient computer programme, coercing the people around it into a society that is as toxic as it is artificial. They trick it into a self-destruct by making it self-aware of its own violence in a world of ostensible peace, and return Beta III to the human population.
This episode was a bit meandering, to say the least, especially since the most prominent identifier of the planet’s issues was ‘the festival’, an event that is never actually explained. We can infer why there is a scheduled time of unlawfulness, as stated previously, but Landru never actually tells the characters why it happens. It makes the rest of the story seem like it jumped the shark in the first act, honestly. Like, let’s go back and learn about this Purge thing and why a computer thought it would make people less violent. It’s sociologically interesting.
Favourite quote: “Creativity is necessary for the health of the body.” - Spock. // He’s right on all counts, technically. This episode felt sort of like a snap back at communism, with emphasis placed on the value of the individual, and the danger of ‘absorption’ into ‘the body’, which admittedly sounds terrifying when put like that. Maybe I’m just hyper-aware of the time at which this was written, although with sets and acting like it has, it’s difficult not to be. I wonder if any American media adequately criticises capitalism.
Sidenote: This screenshot is all of us looking back at 2020
#st: tos#star trek: the original series#tos: 1x21#ep: the return of the archons#james kirk#spock#hikaru sulu#reger#hacom#tamar#landru#leonard mccoy#review
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TOS Episodes in stardate order:
I finally finished my rewatch and thought this might be useful for ff writers or just anyone interested
(this is using the Netflix episode order and the star date which was mentioned first in the episode)
1x04 Where No Man Has Gone Before 1312.4
1x07 Mudd's Women 1329.8
1x02 The Man Trap 1513.1
1x11 The Corbomite Maneuver 1514
1x03 Charlie X 1533.7
1x06 The Enemy Within 1672.1
1x05 The Naked Time 1704.2
1x18 The Squire of Gothos 2124.5
1x08 What Are Little Girls Made Of? 2712.4
1x09 Miri 2713.5
1x10 Dagger of the Mind 2715.1
1x14 The Conscience of the King 2817.6
1x17 The Galileo Seven 2821.5
1x21 Court Martial 2947.3
1x12 The Menagerie Part 1 3012.6
1x13 The Menagerie Part 2 3013.1
2x07 Catspaw 3018.2
1x16 Shore Leave 3025.3
1x19 Arena 3045.6
1x28 The Alternative Factor 3087.6
1x20 Tomorrow is Yesterday 3113.2
1x23 Space Seed 3141.9
1x22 The Return of the Archons 3156.2
1x24 A Taste of Armageddon 3192.1
1x26 The Devil in the Dark 3196.1
1x27 Errand of Mercy 3198.4
2x16 The Gamesters of Triskelion 3211.7
2x09 Metamorphosis 3219.8
1x30 Operation: Annihilate! 3287.2
2x01 Amok Time 3372.7
2x02 Who Mourns for Adonais? 3468.1
2x12 The Deadly Years 3478.2
2x11 Friday's Child 3497.2
2x14 Wolf in the Fold 3614.9
2x13 Obsession 3619.2
2x05 The Apple 3715.3
2x10 Journey to Babel 3842.3
2x25 Bread and Circuses 4040.7
2x19 A Private Little War 4211.4
2x18 The Immunity Syndrome 4307.1
3x13 Elaan of Troyius 4372.5
3x06 Spectre of the Gun 4385.3
2x08 I, Mudd 4513.3
2x15 The Trouble with Tribbles 4523.3
2x22 By Any Other Name 4657.5
2x24 The Ultimate Computer 4729.4
2x20 Return to Tomorrow 4768.3
3x03 The Paradise Syndrome 4842.6
3x02 The Enterprise Incident 5027.3
3x04 And the Children Shall Lead 5029.5
3x12 The Empath 5121.5
3x16 The Mark of Gideon 5423.4
3x01 Spock's Brain 5431.4
3x08 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 5476.3
3x05 Is There In Truth No Beauty? 5630.7
3x09 The Tholian Web 5693.2
3x11 Wink of an Eye 5710.5
3x14 Whom Gods Destroy 5718.3
3x18 The Lights of Zetar 5725.3
3x15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 5730.2
3x10 Plato's Stepchildren 5784.2
3x21 The Cloud Minders 5818.4
3x20 The Way to Eden 5832.3
3x19 Requiem for Methuselah 5843.7
3x22 The Savage Curtain 5906.4
3x24 Turnabout Intruder 5928.5
3x23 All Our Yesterdays 5943.7
No Stardate:
1x01 Pilot: The Cage
1x15 Balance of Terror
1x25 This Side of Paradise
1x29 The City on the Edge of Forever
2x03 The Changeling
2x04 Mirror, Mirror
2x06 The Doomsday Machine
2x17 A Piece of the Action
2x21 Patterns of Force
2x23 The Omega Glory
2x26 Assignment: Earth
3x07 Day of the Dove
3x17 That Which Survives
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We love Uhura! Continuing.
Episode 1x21, The Return of the Archons. With all but a few minutes of this episode taking place on the planet, not much of Uhura in this one. Bridge duty and background reaction shots.
The most significant thing is that, for the first time that we see, the bridge is Scotty’s bridge, and that is a slightly different place from Kirk’s or Spock’s bridge. I’ll have more to say about that in a later episode.
Episode 1x23, Space Seed. An iconic episode, setting up future movies and an arch-nemesis, and for the first time in quite a while, we get to see Uhura somewhere other than the bridge.
We open on the bridge. The first sign that something is off is when Uhura picks up a signal …. In Morse code. She starts interpreting the code. (Kirk says, with some annoyance, that they are reading it. The irritation was uncalled for there, Jimbo.) Uhura snaps to action a few minutes later when the ship goes to full alert, hitting buttons on the comm board.
We don’t see Uhura again until mid-episode at a formal dinner. She is chatting up the helmsman (not Sulu, alas), waiting for guests to arrive. Again, it looks like Uhura knows and is friendly with everyone on the ship. She enjoys drinks at dinner, seated next to Spock and across from Khan.
Not a lot for her to do here, but the Captain obviously wanted her to attend, valuing her presence and observations. (And in a completely shallow aside, why doesn’t Uhura get a dress uniform? Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott get one. And I know why, costume budget etc etc. But I would love to have seen Uhura’s dress uniform. And I especially would have liked to have seen one culturally associated, like they let Scotty wear in future episodes.)
She’s on the bridge when Khan escapes, reporting urgently that the security channels are jammed, and as Khan takes over the ship and cuts off line support to the bridge she reports that she cannot reach the nearest Starbase either; everything is completely jammed. The air runs thin; she lies unconscious on the floor of the bridge, and a barely-conscious Kirk recommends her and the other bridge personnel for commendation before collapsing to the floor himself.
Presumably Spock loses consciousness shortly after, because in the next scene Khan has fully taken the ship and is holding the senior officers prisoner in a briefing room. Kirk is not there, and when Scotty demands to know where the Captain is, Khan orders Uhura to turn on the view screen. Uhura just stares levely at Khan: Fuck off.
Khan has one of his henchmen grab her and throw her into the communications chair, and Uhura and henchman have a staring contest. Again, Uhura’s gaze is clearly a refusal, and henchman backhands her in the face, hard.
She glares up at him, then leaps to her feet when he threatens her again. And a few minutes later she is threatened with another strike when she refuses to turn on the screen, which switched off before Kirk’s apparent death. She curls forward in despair at Khan’s assertion that Kirk is dead.
This set of interactions is … I don’t like it. I don’t like her getting hit. I don’t like a white man beating up on a black woman. I don’t like the staging, which clearly has her frightened and intimidated. There are some really, really disturbing overtones in it all, harkening to both racial and sexual violence.
What I want is badass Uhura to spit her blood in his face, then jump up and kick him in the balls and then go rescue Kirk and the rest of the crew. That’s what I want. That’s not what we get. Here, although she is absolutely defiant—and I love her for that—she is also afraid and powerless. It is upsetting to watch, because Uhura’s reactions feel much more to me to be a 1960’s black women’s reaction to the violence of a white man rather than the response of a 23rd century Starfleet officer. In that moment, I’m really afraid we are actually seeing Nichelle Nichols, not Nyota Uhura. And that is fucking horrible. But you know what would be worse? If that really was Uhura, because it would mean in 300 years … a black woman still has cause to be held in powerless fear at the hands of a white man.
Anyway.
We see her again sitting in quiet despair that shifts to hope as Khan is unable to reach his crew. You can see it dawning on her — Maybe all isn’t lost. Maybe Kirk and Spock are alive!
And yes, they are! Gas floods the room, and Uhura jumps up, holding her breath, hitting switches and keys, ever the pro, before succumbing to unconscious along with everyone else. Again.
We see her one more time at the end of the episode, engaging the record tapes for the hearing.
It is a good Uhura episode, getting her off the bridge, putting her in real peril, and giving her the opportunity to absolutely be a defiant badass who only takes orders from her Captain. And yet I find the episode hard to watch because of the mid-twentieth century misogynistic and racial violence, transplanted to the 23rd Century. Alas, it’s still in the 21st, too.
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TOS REWATCH 2020-2022: SEASON ONE
(reaction post masterlist)
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1x01: The Man Trap
1x02: Charlie X
1x03: Where No Man Has Gone Before
1x04: The Naked Time
1x05: The Enemy Within
1x06: Mudd’s Women
1x07: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
1x08: Miri
1x09: The Dagger of the Mind
1x10: The Corbomite Maneuver
1x11: The Menagerie Pt. 1
1x12: The Menagerie Pt. 2
1x13: The Conscience of the King
1x14: Balance of Terror
1x15: Shore Leave
1x16: The Galileo Seven
1x17: The Squire of Gothos
1x18: Arena
1x19: Tomorrow Is Yesterday
1x20: Court Martial
1x21: The Return of the Archons
1x22: Space Seed
1x23: A Taste of Armageddon
1x24: This Side of Paradise
1x25: The Devil in the Dark
1x26: Errand of Mercy
1x27: The Alternative Factor
1x28: The City on the Edge of Forever
1x29: Operation: Annihilate!
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The Return of the Archons (1x21)
Jim: You’d make a splendid computer, Mr. Spock
Spock: 🥺that😍is🥺very🥰kind🥺of❤️you🥰captain🥺
#my tos thoughts :)#star trek#spirk#spirk is canon#tos spirk#star trek the original series#star trek tos#tos#spock#spock x kirk#mr spock#s’chn t’gai spock#james tiberius kirk#kirk x spock#james t. kirk#jim kirk#captain kirk#kirk#space husbands#mine#k/s
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TOS 1x21: The Return of the Archons
Episode: The Return of the Archons (1x21)
Series: The Original Series
Original US air date: February 9, 1967
The ending was quite predictable.
And that’s it. Thank for clicking on Keep Reading though.
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TOS 1×21 ‘The Return of The Archons’ Trailer
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"Landru is gentle. You will come."
Out of context Star Trek (1x21 "Return of the Archons")
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