"Shore leave" Any fans?
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jozzcooper — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 06:59 PM)
One of my favorites. It was an extra pleasure to know that my second favorite writer had a hand in the story, as well.
Interesting about Barrows was how out-of-breath she was after running to where Sulu was shooting his antique pistol. I thought the actress (Emily Banks) might actually have been having a problem there. -
LarrupinLou — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 04:12 PM)
Interesting about Barrows was how out-of-breath she was after running to where Sulu was shooting his antique pistol. I thought the actress (Emily Banks) might actually have been having a problem there.
The amazing thing was that she didn't fall down at least once like most women in these old television shows used to do.
At any rate, Emily Banks had that sexy girl-next door thing going on at maximum photon-torpedo levels.
No blah, blah, blah! -
Blueghost — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 02:26 AM)
by DontDisturbMyParadise Mon Sep 19 2016 02:28:29
IMDb member since June 2016
I like this episode. Yes it's very weird, with the Alice in wonderland characters, but I love the beauty in it. The beauty of the planet. The dress Tonia tries on. I love her dress. This episode seems over looked.
It's an episode about making fantasies come true in order to alleviate some kind of diagnosed pain on the part of the person fantasizing. -
Gialmere — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 05:45 PM)
Here's a few IMDb trivia items (relevant to this thread) for the episode
The original script featured Yeoman Rand as part of the landing party, but as the character was written out of the series, she was changed to Yeoman Tonia Barrows. Also, in Sturgeon's original script, the Yeoman had a share of close scenes with Kirk. In the rewrites, Gene L. Coon and Gene Roddenberry changed these to feature Doctor McCoy instead and introduced Kirk's old Academy flame Ruth to the story.
Although Kirk appears to address the "Angela" character as "Teller" early in the episode, she is played by Barbara Baldavin, who played Angela "Martine" in Star Trek: Balance of Terror (1966) (her fianc, Robert Tomlinson, died in the episode). The script name for her character was "Mary Teller" and was changed to Angela Martine on the set when somebody noticed that she had already appeared as a named character. In the closing credits, she is identified as "Angela".
When I was a kid, the local TV station would play
Shore Leave
every Halloween. This might seem strange when you consider other, more horror themed episodes (like
Catspaw
) were available and yet it always felt strangely appropriate. -
jbaker1-2 — 2 years ago(April 27, 2023 07:59 PM)
Yep. The script was written by legendary SF author Theodore Sturgeon, and Emily Banks (Yeoman Barrows) is definitely one of the top ten Trek babes.
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it.