So, I don't know if I mentioned it, but I've got Netflix now. I've got a dual queue going; one for movies and one for television. I've been running the movie queue for a month or so now, but just started the TV queue. First up: Star Trek.
The first episode is The Man Trap. The introduction starts with the familiar split infinitive and talks of the "five year mission". Spoileration to follow!
The episode doesn't follow the cliché that we've come to know and expect. The expendable crewmen that die don't wear red. Beyond that, there's a lot that doesn't make sense. Kirk keeps sending crewmen off by themselves despite known danger. No one manages to put together the obvious conclusion that if the two inhabitants of the planet demand salt and one of your crewman dies because something sucked all the salt out of him, then maybe you should be careful around those same two inhabitants.
Other oddities abound. Yeoman Rand appears to be Sulu's yeoman, not Kirk's as I had always assumed. Uhura attempts to put the moves on Spock in a brazen way and appears to have little understanding of Vulcans. (Doubtless it is exposition for the benefit of the audience.) There was a fun moment where a huge stone monument wobbled as Kirk bumped it on his way by.
The ending was weak as well; Kirk is awfully understanding of Bones nearly allowing the monster to get him because he refuses to believe Kirk is telling the truth.
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