Running diary: Star Trek, "The Cage"

Written for the Star Trek - Relive the Majesty G+ community.

I didn't watch Star Trek as a kid because the space monsters were too creepy, and have never got around to watching it as an adult.  It has been in my netflix queue, so this project is coming at a great time.  Here's a mini-running diary of "The Cage".

05:05  Pike tired of being the one who decides who lives and who dies.  Is this Crow T. Robot's source quote for wanting to be the one who decides who lives and who dies?

       Doc & Pike exchange platitudes and tell us rather than show us what a swell guy Pike is.  Dull, dull, dull.

       There's a blue shirt on the bridge who just stands there with a clipboard.  Does he do anything?

07:40  Groovy spacey-wacey time warp!

       Proto-Tom Paris flashes gang symbols at Pike and is wearing bandages?  Oh, riiiiight, the battle on Rigel 7 that caused the injuries that has Pike so currently down on being the Decider.

08:45  Pike is so dreamy when he makes sexist comments!  Now they're really showing us what kind of guy he is!

10:00  Oh, and the lieutenant is also the ship's number 1?!  Pike might as well be telling her to stay home and mind the ship!

10:45  And so it begins with the hateful transporter technology, the bane of all who hold up Star Trek as an exemplar of hard SF

12:00  Spock smiling reminds me of Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams

13:30  Pulsing, throbbing, tumescent heads

14:45  "Didn't get that last message captain." 
       "Dah... duh... spacey chick in a grass skirt is making eyes at me."

15:30  I'll... just... go off alone with the teenage space vixen.  Is the rest of the away team smiling and nodding to themselves?

18:30  Creepy monsters.  This is why I didn't watch Star Trek as a kid.

24:00  Nice touch to send him back to the memory of Rigel 7, so we can see what his bad memories are about.

26:00  Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

27:00  Oh, my gawsh?  Teenage space vixen is gonna fight!  Oh... but... ineffectively flailing and shrieking.  Sigh.

29:30  Is there any way to keep them from probing me, probing you?  It's the best I can do.

30:00  Number 1 gets ready to kick some ass.  I hope that's not the smell of a looming catfight in the air.
      
43:30  Number 1 as a green alien slave girl?!  Captain Pike!

49:20  Wrong thinking is punishable.  Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.  Now sex up one or more of those ladies!

1:00:00  IRL Pike goes home happy in the knowledge that imaginary him is bangin' imaginary Veena