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As someone on their first watch through (aside from the recent movies).

My god, that was a good episode. Great depiction of a space battle. Excited I finally decided to take the plunge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best. Must really have blown minds when it came out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure that it blew minds that much as much of its core audience would have seen two great submarine movies - ‘The Enemy Below’ (1957) & ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ (1958).

The episode takes and translates the submarine warfare and beats of these these movies into a space setting. It’s still marvellous television.

Recommend both of the movies BTW if you can find them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it translates them so closely that phasers act like depth charges and there's one part where both crews are trying to be quiet for some reason. It's a a brilliant episode, but that part was really jarring on my last rewatch with a friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

God, yeah, it was an absolutely incredible episode. I watched it recently too, I was curious after seeing SNW's treatment of it. I never watched much TOS because it wasn't very engaging to me as a child in the 2000s, but I was drawn into BoT almost immediately and felt like I barely blinked the whole hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Now you see why Romulans ended up a recurring villain... very strong start. Compare that to how long they took to bring back the Gorn!