Today In The Department Of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 1 Of A Double Feature! Like The Last

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 1 of a double feature! Like the last episode of The Outer Limits, this episode had too many good shots and too many Trek connections to fit comfortably in one post. Leonard Nimoy guest stars in "I, Robot," episode 9 of the second season of The Outer Limits (original air date Nov 14, 1964).

Nimoy plays a journalist covering the story of a robot on trial, accused of the murder of his creator. The story has elements of a space-age retelling of Frankenstein, as well as the ethical issues surrounding the creation of artificial life that Star Trek has been exploring for nearly sixty years and human society is still wrestling with today. As Nimoy's character says at the end of the episode, “It's not the end of the story. It's just the beginning.”

Other Trek Connections:

In flashbacks, the scientist who built the robot is played by Peter Brocco, who played one of the Organian elders in the Star Trek episode “Errand of Mercy.”

The scientist's niece, who hires an attorney to defend the robot, is played by Marianna Hill, better known to Star Trek fans as the flirtatious Dr. Helen Noel in “Dagger of the Mind.”

More to come in Part 2!

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

honestly the confusion over exactly WHOSE souls got snatched did get me confused for the exact same reasons you said above. Honestly I keep trying to rewrite this and the "plothole" is full of contradictions.

Medic now has 9 souls - so he had to get at least a full team of mercenaries (made up of 8 others) to get that number - and reading the comics it's implied he stole them from his original team, but that still doesn't explain why both Sniper and Scout went to "heaven" because usually only souls would get there? Maybe it was some sort of stasis like in the "Sound of Medicine" MVM short that was released. (I think I saw a post a looooong time ago talking about that)

But as for the "pregnancy" thing, I don't want to give spoilers especially since the reading ahead was accident, but the person who actually got some use out of the baboon uterus was one of the "classic" mercenaries, The Heavy. (You were right!)

Another thing to do with the "pregnancy machine" that Redmond and Blutarch suggested before meeting Gray Mann was that it was for an heir....and in the comic "Ring of Fired" (1st one) Gray Mann shows up with a child. (And asks Saxton Hale to fight them).

How did he get the child?

I would like to think Medic had something to do with it, since a MACHINE was "a crime against nature" in his opinion.

(I realize now I went on a tangent and answered completely 0 questions

google: how to talk to people?)

wait did medic steal everyone souls as the ones he surgically implanted in himself and now the devil has to trick him out of them in 50 years time????