AeronMelonTHE STAR TREK FRANCHISE REWATCH PARTY #20 "Arena"
Welcome to the show, Vasquez Rocks.
This may not be a great episode, but a picture of Kirk fighting a Gorn is usually next to the definition of Star Trek in the encyclopedia.
really? i usually find it on youtube under the caption “worst fight scene ever”
ummthatguyYou mean best, right? Right?
Ad for an '09 Trek game.
STAR TREK: THE VIDEO GAME -- Shatner vs. Gorn Trailer
Captain AggravatedThe performance of the stage combat is goofy, because you’ve got a guy in a TV budget once-off monster suit he can’t really see out of and his coworker William Shatner trying not to hurt each other while they’re making an episode of a TV show with a central theme of the importance of mercy and mutual understanding. The part that makes this fight scene great, truly great, is “NO I WON’T KILL HIM.”
Maybe the music helps, but you see right when Kirk snaps to his senses and realizes he’s been bent on revenge since seeing Cestus III destroyed.
And here we are talking about it some 60 years later.
Visual effects comparison of the original broadcast & the Remastered versions.
All Versions Of... - Arena
Fun episode. But that ending…
Surely, they could have taken one more tab of acid to come up with something better.
Part of the Earth Deities Were Just Aliens series.
Even Adonis was a bit of a whiney, attention whore at the end of the day.
JohnnyEnzymeSadly, the simulated mortar explosion on Cestus III gave Shatner a lifelong case of tinnitus, which even had him suicidal at one point before he learned to deal with it.
if that was caused by simulated explosion, i don’t want to think what real one could have done… 😂
Probably similar.
It’s not like they blew Kirk up. He was just in the area, running for cover.