MsWausau

I've seen it, Starri, but I get the feeling Adam was simply trying to recompense some distasteful issues he had with his father. I was saddened by Leonard's death, but as much as I was by DeForest's, James or Gene's. I shall truly mourn when William passes away. He was and always shall be, the best part of Star Trek, something that I've been watching since 1972 on a regular basis.

Don't mean to actually 'dis' the show, because I really liked it and thought Michael Landon a phenomenal actor, but I live in Minnesota and I've been mostly everywhere in Minnesota and when you see Laura going up into the mountains... um, not here, not even in the north near Lake Superior. And I think the Ingalls were really in MN for maybe months and not the longevity it seems to give way to in the show.

I'm not sure what season it was in but by then the Ingalls had adopted (Jason Bateman) who had a life threatening ailment. Charles believed he got word from God to take him out into a field, make a temple and pray before it. When Jason is healed, man, it's a real tear jerker.

This was a show I used to watch with my dad when I was a kid. Made me believe in things like Nessy and Bigfoot ... and one of the few things I actually liked doing with my dad.

Awww... when my son was young he'd literally run home from school to see this show. Alan Young passed away last year and my son, now 37, was moved by his passing. Several months ago I found a Duck Tales shirt at Walmart and immediately bought it for him. He wears it with pride. Even had a gal who was about his age tell him how much she loved it. Very cool.

Brilliantly said, TudorQueen.

Sorry, but CBS proves time and time again how incompetent of a network they are... this time it was cancelling this show. While I'll agree that the schlock with Dominic and Samaritan got old: Reese, Finch, Fusco, Root and Shaw were such a great watch. They'll never get old, ever.

My son is a cable technician and he says, without a doubt, that he has to work in a hoarder's home at least once a day and sometimes more and then the customer will want something totally outrageous like asking him to move their shit and then getting bent out of shape when he says he's not allowed to touch any of it (not that he would). He tells them as politely as he can that either they move/clean up the area where a tech has to work or it ain't happening. While I can understand a disease, as both my folks were alcoholics, I will never be able to wrap my mind around these people thinking their crap is more important than those who love them.

Basically, I love the show. My favorite characters are Mac and Cricket... love them! But there have been some real stinkers in the mix and for a show that's only ten episodes a season I can't figure out why they go 'there'... like the skiing one, Charlie grinding away. Can't get into that. Give me Frank dressed as Andy Warhol... love it, love it!

Larry Hagman was the best! I'm always more fond of the bad guy than the namby pamby's. Although I think Larry's real persona was more akin to Tony Bellows than JR Ewing.

I think was about the dullest show I've ever seen. The best parts about it were seeing old actors you don't get to see much any more. F and that's giving it too high a grade.

I think season two has some of the better episodes of all. The Changling is my favorite of all time.

Peace, my son is a cable technician and last week the temps here in MN went to -15 below during the day. My son called in the morning and said slowly, "-117, two men unconscious..." And once our laughter had died down I heard him jogging to his truck as he said, "Hang on, I have to phaser some rocks to get some heat in my truck." What befuddles me about that scene is... why didn't they send down the shuttle craft? I know, I know, it was before they invented the thing, so why didn't Sulu make a tent around some rocks, close it off and then heat the rocks? Spock told him 'survival procedures'... and cuddling in his neoprene blanket sufficed?

Watching it for forty some years I'm pretty sure that Kirk is telling Spock that if the process didn't work to finish him off and let him go into another dimension. Remember the gruesome scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, when the transporter malfunctions and the two die? I don't think Kirk would have ever wanted that to happen to him, so even if Spock was to give him a healthy dose of full phaser Kirk would have been grateful for it. And I agree with you on William Shatner's subtlety. The pause acting is enacted more by Leonard Nimoy than William Shatner. You can tell how much the man loves to act and how he embraced everything about the role. In the very last episode "Turnabout Intruder" Leonard had approach William and bemoaned about how preposterous it was and didn't he feel insulted doing it? William basically scoffed at Leonard and told him he was relishing it.

Never watch Star Trek on NetFlix, they used the pimped versions which suck, completely suck. You want to get the real flavor and the real glory of it, rent it from the library or borrow it from a friend who not only had them untouched, but in production order as well.