Star Trek : "Shore leave" Any fans?

"Shore leave" Any fans?

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.

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A personal favorite. Tremendous fun, whimsical yet serious in tone, good location work. Finnegan is a terrific addition. I tend to put in my top ten. One of my earliest Trek memories.

The core theme is one of the best in all of Trek: "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." Excellent in its day, and still relevant now.

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"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play."

I still can't believe that Kirk would come up with a comment like that.

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Perhaps simple play is a calming distraction from complex thought.

Shore Leave is certainly a model of the kinds of stories Star Trek should be telling.

Last night I watched "Sacred Ground", a Voyager episode I hadn't seen. * It, too, is a good example of the story in which the UFP people are forced to learn a lesson, rather than imposing their values on others. And in an odd Gunsmoke coincidence, Parley Baer had an important role.

* Voyager was a generally disappointing series, though it had at least one superlative episode, "Death Wish".

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One of my favorite season 1 eps.

The louder UFO "debunkers" argue the more terrified they are it's all true.

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I hate to break this to you, Spanky, but your sig is bullshit.

The worst thing that ever happened to the movies was when some pretentious twit decided they should be art.

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I don't think it's ignored, seems like at least one thread pops up each time it's shown, on Me TV etc. That just doesn't happen every day. Maybe once a year or so, depending on schedules.

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I like it also cause it was the first real 'on location' episode. It was all outdoors.

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A while back, there was a thread about how that site looks now. It was sad.

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Yeah it's probably a parking lot now!

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That sucks.

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I've always wanted to know how Lt. Angela Martine came back from the dead after being shot by the Japanese Zero's!

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Common sense suggests that, like a holodeck, the "amusement park" would have safeguards that prevent participants from being injured or killed.

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As McCoy put it, he was taken below the surface for some instant repairs.

Maybe they had a gadget similar to the one in the TZ episode Valley of the Shadow which can restore any object to a prior state.

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The exterior scenes were shot in Vasquez Rocks Natural Park and Africa USA.
A trivia note, Perry Lopez who played Rodriguez in this episode also played Lt. Escobar in the movie Chinatown.
When I was a kid I use to get so mad at Finnegan, I hated the way he treated Kirk. Now I get upset with Kirk the way Finnegan punks him out. You can't kick his ass, but you can whoop on Khan and a Gorn.

Spenser with an "S", like the poet.

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Well, but the planet made Finnegan be strong enough to beat Kirk most of the time, that was the point.

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oh, I did not know that.

Spenser with an "S", like the poet.

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At least to start with, anyway. Eventually Kirk "had to" beat him, but if it had happened too soon, it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

Of course, Finnegan was never a real person, and certainly not THE real person, who would also have been much older, as was Kirk.

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Obviously Dr. McCoy was killed after being pierced in the heart by the knight so why didn't he report what it felt like to die before he was supposedly repaired?

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I expect he did, in his medical log.

Unless maybe the Shore Leave planet erases some of the memories, in situations like that.

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How would he have memories of being dead? He was killed instantly.gg

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Obviously Dr. McCoy was killed after being pierced in the heart by the knight so why didn't he report what it felt like to die before he was supposedly repaired?


McCoy wasn't repaired. He was dead too long. He was simply replaced with one of the planet's androids, and for the rest of the series, that's McCoy 2.0.

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Oh Yes! Shore Leave is one of my favorites! Later in the 70's West World came out followed by another movie of the same ilk. Those movies always reminded me of Shore Leave.

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Since we never saw her again was Yeoman Barrows a figment of Dr. McCoy's imagination on the Shore Leave planet much like Finnigan was to Kirk?

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One of my favs as well The animated series did a sequel explaining the computer system

A few side notes Angela while running from the Zero and The American Plane (Both were used) Hit here head on a tree knocking here out hence why she appears later

Also Supposedly McCoy continued a relationship w Barrows and They get married
at some point

The Gun Sulu wished for was used till almost the end of the 20th Century

Seldom if ever misfired despite only six shots


And that's my two cents

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Since we never saw her again was Yeoman Barrows a figment of Dr. McCoy's imagination on the Shore Leave planet much like Finnigan was to Kirk?


Naw, Kirk knew her too, etc.

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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.

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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!

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by DontDisturbMyParadise » Mon Sep 19 2016 02:28:29
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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.

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I love it when Kirk gets to kick Finnigan's aster-bar. Wouldn't it be great if you could get that abusive bully, boss, etc from your past and kick his behind?

Great fun.

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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 fiancé, 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.

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In the original run, Shore Leave was the Christmas week episode, which seemed quite appropriate.

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Yeah, I love this one, especially the overly long fight between Kirk and Finnegan at the end.

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Yep, That is definitely 1 of my favorite episodes of the show.

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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.

The worst thing that ever happened to the movies was when some pretentious twit decided they should be art.
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