Star Trek Retro Review: "A Piece of the Action" | Other Earths

[@johnpotts8308]

Personally, I love the "Fizzbin" scene. I've played enough games where explaining the rules sounds exactly like Kirk's made up rules, sometimes even when the game is actually pretty good.

[@scaper8]

Plus, there's a great line in a _DS9_ episode where Quark mentions Fizzbin. Throw away joke for sure, but the joke implies that the Ioans eventually join the galactic scene and that they kept playing Kirk's BS game and spread it around!

[@kbrock9146]

You know..... At night. On a Tuesday. Spock, what are the odds of getting a natural Fizzbin at night on a Tuesday? Just that whole scene is unhingedly improvised (they did a great job making it seem that way), and then after all that talk Kirk does, he then just throws a card on the floor as their distraction so they can get away. 😂

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Try explaining cribbage scoring, it ends up sounding pretty crazy at some point.

[@dw7704]

Whenever I hear complicated game rules my first thought is, “Except on Tuesdays”

[@stevenhandzel5929]

I’ve learned it. I’m teaching Fizzbin to my brothers and my wife. It’s strangely both frustrating and fun.

[@JustinKase1969]

It would be hysterical to see a Lower Decks episode where they come back to Sigma Iotia II and they are all talking like Kirk (Shatner).

[@MattMcIrvin]

There apparently was a 1990s Star Trek comic that was a sequel to this episode, in which the TNG crew visit the place and it has a society based on Kirk's Enterprise crew. By now, the idea has been almost done in enough ways that the actual sequel might be hard to sell. Star Trek: Prodigy apparently did an episode with a society based on a sort of cargo cult of Starfleet (it's not Sigma Iotia II though), there was a Futurama episode with the backstory that Star Trek had become a worldwide religion on Earth with brutal holy wars, and of course the premise of Galaxy Quest is kind of similar.

[@dm121984]

@@MattMcIrvin I do love that episode of Futurama - I did also find it funny they had the Star Trek cast alive as heads still, despite the holy wars.

[@patrickdodds7162]

I ultimately have to tell my friends who are hardcore TNG fans that “A Piece of the Action” is “The Big Goodbye” meets “Who Watches the Watchers” in order to sell it. Mind you it has never actually worked, but I did my best, dammit.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Wait, there's people who refuse to watch this episode? Dang. Some of my pals don't have the patience for bad TOS episodes, but I just made them a list of the ones I think are worth their time the last time I did a watch-through. And this was definitely on it! (It's only got one Must in season 3, and two Nice To Haves lol.)

[@chrisboerger465]

TNG fans (over the Original Series) are like cat people...pretentious, and just plain wrong. :)

[@patrickdodds7162]

@@chrisboerger465 I love TOS and TNG to pieces. They are two different TV series that share the same soul.

[@TheresaReichley]

This is the one they almost got Terentino to turn into a movie before his fans threw a fit. I could see it, although as an update, they could have the Horizon drop MTV Rap videos for the same outcome without the suits. I dunno as a 1990s kid I’m more of an old school fan.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@TheresaReichley somehow I doubt he would’ve taken it so lightheartedly, though there’s certainly absurd and funny moments in his stuff so maybe he would’ve kept it light-er. But the street attacks would definitely be bloodier…

[@cantantenoel]

My favorite silly TOS episode alongside Trouble With Tribbles. My dad and I quote this one at each other constantly!

[@Bastion90]

Same here. The Trouble with Tribbles and A Piece of the Action are my top two favourite TOS episodes. When it comes to TOS, I like the light-hearted silly ones best.

[@yoshifan4569]

This is one of my favorite episodes😊😊😊 The plot is a bit meh, but I love the outfits, the fizzbin scene, the car joke, Kirks speech, Spock being gangster (or at least trying to be) and the kid. Since I don't really like gangstermovies that much, this episode is always a very pleasant surprise

[@Dove01s]

Actually, there is a really old video game that picks up the plot from this where the Iotians do just what was worried about and have spaceships but still act like gangsters, and the crew has to time-travel back to get that communicator back to prevent that from happening.

[@garysouza95]

"Obviously a case of arrested development." "I AIN'T NEVER BEEN ARRESTED IN MY WHOLE LIFE!" Also, what keeps Oxmyx from turning into Khan!?

[@ShinGallon]

Lack of Ricardo Montalbán's incredible screen charisma.

[@arbjbornk]

"Also, what keeps Oxmyx from turning into Khan!?" A fully charged phaser bank in orbit.

[@garysouza95]

@@arbjbornk Federation needs to be assured of its cut. Sone things never change.

[@hodgeelmwood8677]

He's not crazy?

[@kaitlyn__L]

This is definitely one of the most fun ones. Okmyx has such a silky smoker's voice, lmao. You definitely don't get actors sounding like that anymore. Spock looks great in that three-piece suit too. I also like some of the technological side of it - no subspace radio, so human society was apparently just fine with 10-100 year latencies back then. And also the Enterprise hacking into the planet's phone network, and using that to determine the transporter coordinates. It seems kind of simple now but it's a nice use of cross-referencing, since the bosses have each other's numbers but their bases are secret. People of course bring this episode up when wondering why ship's phasers aren't used to stun enemies more often in TNG times as well. Of course the real reason is it would take all the suspense out of it, just like is done in this episode for comedic effect. But you know the "why didn't they Thomas Riker AND Tuvix him, and also de-age him, with the transporter?" fans don't care about that. So they go "why didn't Picard order the entire Mintakan village stunned?" etcetc.

[@progKansas]

In the end Kirk made an offer they can't refuse.

[@jacksampsonforever]

This one is SO much fun!! You can see the absolutely JOY Kirk/Shatner has in playing the role of a 20th century gangster. and Spok is a NATURAL straight man to this madness. Pure fun

[@ShinGallon]

One of my favorite episodes. It's not too serious, and I also long for a time when Trek could not take itself so overly seriously and just be goofy fun every so often. Though the Fizzbin scene reminds me entirely too much of what having someone actually try to explain card/board game rules is actually like.

[@SingularityOrbit]

It would be fun to see an Iotian as a crewmember on away teams in some future Star Trek show. These are people whose "imitative nature" includes being able to fabricate working Thompson guns from B&W photographs, as well as everything from three-piece suits to fire hydrants. Only the very abstract game of billiards was vague enough that they made up their own game out of the parts. So I'd expect an Iotian in Starfleet to be amazing at figuring out first contact situations from a surprisingly small set of context clues, and so could serve as a great way to infodump a situation to the officer in charge without relying on "computer records say..." or fuzzy Betazoid telepathy. The Iotian could also be played by someone who's great at accents and able to slip into a local style of acting, serving perfectly in an ambassadorial role, but with enough pizzazz to never be boring when doing so. They could also have a flaw of sometimes diving a bit too deeply into character or into the locals' POV, requiring others to remind them of their true mission.

[@cassiedevereaux-smith3890]

One of my all time faves. So fun. And I really like that the actor is playing pool wrong. An accident, almost certainly, but I'd have enjoyed if a few more things were off. After all, they extrapolated a *whole* lot from one book on gangland history. They figured out how to engineer Tommy guns, for goodness sake, and you can't convince me that was in the book. A few more things like that which they got wrong would be welcome.

[@Rocket_Man232]

🔔 Here I am watching the video and about to comment "Imagine if a copy of the Kama Sutra had been left behind instead!" when Steve says "Imagine if a copy of the Kama Sutra had been left behind instead!"...

[@Mallory-Malkovich]

I love the 'alternate Earth' episodes of _TOS,_ and I sincerely hope none of the modern _Trek_ shows ever attempt to explain it. It's a perfect, nonsensical mystery, and I hope it remains that way.

[@nettie607]

Thank you, Steve for this one! I agree that this is not one of the best TOS episodes, but I am one of those people who loves to watch Kirk and Spock in pinstripe suits trying to act like gangsters. It's stupid and fun. Happy Holidays!

[@TheOneTrueFingal]

The Star Trek 25th Anniversary NES game follows up on McCoy's missing communicator. It doesn't go well for the Iotians.

[@Solmead]

Was coming to comment this as well

[@merry_morgana]

A++ Shatner impression.

[@huskerchuck9212]

My favorite line from this episode is "Cover him, Spocko!"

[@fisk0]

I like that the book is just called "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties" when by 2260s there have been quite a few "twenties" since the nineteenhundreds. Sure, the ship that left the book there visited a hundred years earlier, but that would presumably still have been after the 2120s.

[@ShinGallon]

"There's only one 80s, Kiff."

[@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286]

I think Spock read the copyright date as 1992.

[@gkarenko9593]

Maybe it was a first edition.

[@Rocket_Man232]

🔔 3:25 Kirk arbitrarily makes up card game rules. Doesn't sound like something anyone would imitate later. Like John Candy's character in Stripes... 😁

[@allanolley4874]

One wonders how a gangster society works, if the gangs are the government they are not breaking laws, dealing contraband and the like. Seems like the writers had at least a passing thought about that. I like the bit where one of the ordinary citizens walks up to one of the gang lieutenants to complain about some problem with the utilities and Spock comments "Is this your right of petition?" Like it's funny to think what an official legal code, civics institutions, official selection process of a boss of a gangster planet "government" would be.

[@patrickmackin3579]

This planet is a prime candidate for the running joke from "Star Trek Lower Decks" about "second contact" missions, which are intended to clean up the mess left behind by first contact. Kirk's TOS Enterprise was the second contact here so I suppose the Lower Decks' Cerritos crew will have to handle the 3rd contact. 🙂

[@Rocket_Man232]

🔔 2:59 I daresay that the actor and director knew the cue ball was the ball hit in pool. That leaves the reason he hit a non-cue ball a deliberate choice. What was it then that that deliberate choice was therefore supposed to communicate to the viewers? It was supposed to humorously indicate that they didn't °quite° "have things down." 😉

[@brianstiles1701]

I loved the SNW callback where Kirk had trouble driving in alternate 2020

[@derekobrien2728]

I actually like the idea that Bela didn't know how to authentically play pool, like maybe they had pictures of pool tables and the equipment and such but the rules were never detailed, so they improv it along the way. I see those ice cream carts in the Iotian streets, and I imagine they created the carts from photos but never learned what ice cream actually was, so the carts were empty, or they transported puppies around or something. And I wish someone in 1992 had actually published Chicago Mobs of the Twenties to sell at Trek conventions...

[@chrissiemacalister6835]

As to the pool/billiards/snooker game and Oxmyx getting it wrong, the Iotians would have seen pictures in The Book of gangsters playing the game (but which game?) but it is highly unlikely that The Book would carry a description of HOW to play any of the games. They may be imitative, but they would not be miracle workers, so they *would* have made up how the game was played and drawn up a set of rules to go with it.

[@earmixon]

Don't forget "The Royale" from TNG or "North Star" from Enterprise. Also Voyager's "In The Flesh." And you just did Q and The Grey but it maybe deserves a mention as the Q continuum presented as an alternate earth.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Never has an episode needed a second storyline more. They had a decent idea to fill about 30% of an episode, but they either needed an A story or a B (and maybe C) plot to fill up all the rest of that time without resorting to constantly getting caught.

[@hodgeelmwood8677]

I always thought the point was that it WAS ridiculous. Kind of "we're having a bad day" sort of vibe. Can't take it too seriously.

[@curtisquick1582]

"A Piece of the Action" was always a TOS favorite. I remember the day before I headed off to China back in 1987 right out of college to do soft-sell missions work as an English teacher I had wanted to see my last TOS episode for what would turn out to be a looong time and had prayed that it would be "A Piece of the Action." Later that evening I turned on the TV and there it was. Fizzbin and all! For me, it was the beginning of a life-changing odyssey. Like the TOS crew, I went boldly to a strange new world. Memories of TOS made my time in China that much more surreal! It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, especially being in Beijing in 1989. To this day, everything strange in TOS reminds me of when I was an alien in China - truly a stranger in a strange land. And like the boy in the episode, there were times when I had a piece of the action. And it was quite the experience!

[@patrickdodds7162]

Yes! “Patterns of Force” is next week! We will soon learn about the episode that would inspire the theme park in the distant future: Nazi Planet Episode Land (formerly known as Germany).

[@dajunjiet]

A piece of the action is one of the best episodes of trek ever. Especially TOS. I think I've watched this episode at least 32 times.

[@augiegirl1]

8:43 I LOVE the reference to, not only the INCREDIBLE Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes”, but also, by extension, to the SNW musical episode “Substance Rhapsody”!

[@GymQuirk]

One of the proposals for the 30th Anniversary celebration episode on DS9 (which eventually became “Trials and Tribble-ations”) was a followup to this. After 80-odd years, the planet had turned into a society of TOS cosplayers. Yeah. Tribbles was a better jumping-off point. Good thing Charlie Brill was having lunch in the Paramount commissary that day…

[@Sidecutter]

I will be absolutely shocked if the Hoka stories by Dickson and Anderson, starting in 57, didn't have any influence on this idea.

[@molin1]

Definitely my favorite of the episodes where the starting point was clearly a list of existing sets on the backlot they could repurpose to save money.

[@andrewbesso4257]

I wish there had been a TNG episode in which the Enterprise D crew had encountered the Iotian starship Enterprise, with Captain James T. Oxmyx and his first officer Spock Krako

[@arklestudios]

I liked how they brought Sigma Iotia into the Star Trek Picard novel Rogue Elements, about how Rios came to own La Sirena. Maybe this is just me but I would love for a future Star Trek show to have an Iotian main character. The fact that they look identical to humans but (according to the book, which I believe the producers consider canon) are genetically incapable of getting drunk opens up some humorous possibilities.

[@williamgeorge2580]

"That's our Kirk!" is basically the theme of all of TOS.

[@stevenhandzel5929]

I think the thesis of the story is that the key to diplomacy is to speak the language of the people. Kirk tries to do what he did on Eminiar 7, with impassioned speeches and fisticuffs. No go on this planet. So he grabs a Tommy gun, puts on his new duds, and does it with a bad Edward G. Robinson impression, and the natives listened. This is Star Trek comedy done right.

[@radwolf76]

I've always thought that if TNG absolutely had to have a TOS callback in its first non-pilot episode, this would have been a better one to follow up on than The Naked Time. I've always felt that the problem with The Naked Now was that we'd had precious few moments to get a feel for the characters of the crew, so having them act out of character was much less impactful. (Yes, I know The Naked Time was only a little better at this, being Episode 4 of TOS.) A hypothetical "A Piece of Our Action" as Episode 2 of TNG, however, would have given the same amount of rememberries for the TOS Fans to try to hook them in, and it would have given closure to a hanging story hook, instead of retreading the same ground over with a new crew. Not to mention the opportunity to see Space Gangsters with tommy-gun themed phasers.

[@cyrussoxlegion]

The closest we got to a follow up was the NES Star Trek game, in which they go back to the planet to get Bones communicator back. BTW, someone still needs to go back to Earth to get the Klingon phaser Chekov lobbed at Mister not-very-pc.

[@gregwilliams2658]

See here lets but the 'bag' on Krako.... classic. This is no different than the Archons and Patterns of Force. These are the most classic of the classic episodes, and well done with the review!

[@johnburns9634]

Kirk leaves never to return. Except Spock mentions that there will be a federation ship coming by to get its ’Piece of the action’ once a year.

[@renatocorvaro6924]

Space stunners.

[@alexkatsanos8475]

This was before The Godfather in 1972. I wonder if Coppola watched this episode?

[@talon262]

Always nice to see Vic Tayback...

[@TypoKnig]

You added depth to my enjoyment of this episode. I like your observation that Kirk is dealing with the kind of mess he makes in most episodes.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

AVGN talks about this epsiode...for some reason James thought they went back in time to the 1920's.

[@stayconnectedoc]

What was the name of the card game? Fizbin or something like that?

[@air1fire]

You got half a Fizbin already

[@stayconnectedoc]

I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to play! LOL @@air1fire

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@stayconnectedoc Quark suggests Odo play a game with a Ferengi deck, which some people have taken as meaning it was realised and marketed in-universe - but I think it's just as likely that Quark was messing with Odo as he's wont to do. IRL there's also some real rules that fans made, but I honestly don't think it's very fun.

[@captainbryce1]

One of the most fun episodes of TOS.

[@davidrobinson3434]

You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.

[@Cmdr1962]

"...brought to you by Bang Bang, the sweetest little automatic..." (Thanks, Jimmy.)

[@vladutcornel]

The Kama Sutra script is probably what TNG's Justice episode was based on.

[@brokenrocketart]

This was my favorite as a kid. I would watch it more than the other episodes

[@IanZainea1990]

6:13 very true, it's a smart way to save a bad ending for sure.

[@PassportKings]

Happy Thanksgiving, Steve.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Roddenberry's missing script was about leaving the Kama Sutra, but on a world of imitative androids.

[@sinswhisper9588]

This episode is on my top 3

[@Glasnostalgic]

Mel Scharples plus Kirk’s fuzzy fedora. Yasss! Give us a piece of that action

[@dw7704]

This episode was a lot of fun It’s easy to overlook faults, but even then it entertains and amuses me greatly. It’s not in my top 10 or bottom 10, but it’s in the top half. And I am still amused and still laugh at the humour. Kirk wisely used the way the culture developed to “fix” it.

[@SingularityOrbit]

I have to assume Kirk was half-joking about the Iotians coming after the Federation in a century, since there's no reason they wouldn't just go back and pick up the communicator after the ending scene. In fact, based on Strange New Worlds' first episode, they probably just sent a remote activation signal to the communicator to make it start sending signals, then beamed it up to the ship before leaving orbit.

[@JonathanEzor]

Happy Thanksgiving, Steve!

[@matthewdunham1689]

My favorite part is when Kirk told Oxmix to go home and get his SHINEBOX

[@kaitlyn__L]

As to the silly stuff disconnected from anything else, that's one of the things I liked about the gangster casino boat episode of Discovery. It was definitely a refreshing change of pace. It was loosely tied-into the special metal they needed or whatever, but it's mostly just about playing Space Texas Holdem and catching card-counters. Oh yeah, and bare-knuckle boxing. The affable yet threatening boss guy was an alien species I don't think we'd seen before, and he was rattling-off all these idioms we'd never heard. That would've presented so many opportunities for references, but they mostly did original things. A couple of familiar species names in the idioms, a shapeshifting alien, but the rest as far as I can tell was original set-dressing. A real Mos Eisley type place, but for Trek. I thought that was pretty commendable.

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

I'm so ready to review this one for my video series.

[@kirok2011]

I love a piece of the action and you said it beautifully it's fun whacky and just all around and enjoyable episode , Am curious about one thing wouldn't the episode Private little war fit under the category of a parallel earth?

[@endlesswick]

I think Oxmyx hitting the wrong balls was intentional. We later see Krako throwing darts backwards. The Iotians got the basics on how to build a mob society from the book, but lack many details. So they just make it up as they go. A Peace of the Action is a story about Kirk learning to communicate with the Iotians. At first he stumbles but by the end he is having his own with them. "Just let me call my ship to say goodbye."

[@ttintagel]

I must have seen this episode a thousand times, but I never noticed the detail of them playing pool incorrectly!

[@BlueBeetle1939]

This episode gets 10/10 gabagools from me

[@Alresu]

03:02 - He's a gangster! He's not bound by the rules of billard!

[@MichaelHughesLondon]

"Gangster Planet" is an excellent band name

[@jeffsargent5124]

There is a follow-up novel called in other piece of the action where they do return Indigo the consequences

[@Kingrob30]

I work for a polling firm that will remain nameless. I am constantly thinking to myself " I advise yas to keep dialing.."

[@seantlewis376]

I haven't watched the video yet. I clicked on this because "A Piece of the Action" was one of my favorite Star Trek episodes as a kid. When my dad bought a VCR in 1978, I recorded episodes of Star Trek reruns, and this episode was in the elite league of ones that I rewatched the most, along with "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Patterns of Force". OK, now to unpause the video, and watch Mr. Shives brutally butcher my childhood. Yeah, there should have been a 24th Century follow up.

[@kblixt]

It’s one of the best in my eyes

[@Forsworcen]

I feel bad for the second contact ship sent a year later

[@typeviic1]

That one Boss is the cook at Mel's Diner

[@PHOENIXGUNDAM]

I would have loved to see the Trek sequel that Quentin terantino wanted to make this as a remake of this episode. But the film would have been a more straightforward mob drama with the Kelvin timeline crew caught up in it less than halfway through the film. Also the pool game that was being played was probably snooker or some form of British billiards that people from the east coast probably played in the 1920s.

[@teenygozer]

Damon Runyon was once a lot more popular than he is today. People of that era would have understood the meme immediately. Also, Kirk is astounded that anyone would base their entire civilization on a single book... which is shade thrown at Christians basing their entire reality based off of a single book, the bible.

[@MattMcIrvin]

This was always my favorite of the intentionally wacky episodes of Star Trek. I think it's funnier than "The Trouble with Tribbles."

[@andrewbesso4257]

"Hey! We got the yellow Fed!"

[@michaelhall2709]

“Chicago Mobs of the Twenties.” Anthony Caruso. Vic Tayback. Spocko. Heaters. Fizzbin. Kirk’s utterly inept attempt to drive a stick shift. McCoy’s mislaid communicator. If you can’t have a good time with this one, I don’t know what to tell you.

[@PurpleRobe8]

The amazing thing to me is that a mere two years later, The Godfather would re-invent the gangster genre. It would have been interesting to see A Piece of the Action had it been produced in, say, 1974.

[@andrewklang809]

Stupid can be fun, so long as: 1. You know it's stupid, but you're determined to have fun with it 2. You don't know it's stupid, but your audience does

[@kbrock9146]

I mean, isn't that how we got Risa? That script *WAS* found in Roddenberry's desk, and BAM!, sex pleasure planet Risa. 😂

[@Bethos1247-Arne]

it is a fun episode. I have fond memories.

[@peterwyetzner5276]

To be fair, this was made a couple of decades after the stories of Damon Runyon and "Guys and Dolls", which was based on them. Funny gangsters.

[@dianne5086]

Amazing that there are still books in the 23rd century.

[@nutherefurlong]

So this and maybe the prior episode, and the episode introducing the Romulans all talk about explorations or encounters that happened 100 years ago. Are there others? Pre-TOS history might be interesting to piece together if it's just pieced together from throwaway lines in TOS... 40% Federation tax on a planet is... weird

[@Lynxdoc]

I still would love to see what they did with the communicator or were we that planet ?

[@davidmoncholi6746]

Cool video Steve

[@skug9bob]

Personally, I've always been a bit disappointed by the Iotians failing to show up again - I believe they briefly did in the comics, but it's still TOS and the Iotians seem unchanged (there's a comic bit with Kirk already in trouble with his superiors only for an alien to show up with a suitcase full of money, IIRC). I would have loved a Next Generation or Deep Space Nine episode in which the Iotians _do_ show up looking for a piece of the galactic action, either as high-tech gangsters or an unholy hybrid of 1920s gangsters and TOS Starfleet. Have they made an appearance in any of the recent cartoon series?

[@edwardphilibin3151]

The planet where a starship left behind a copy of the Kama Sutra would be Risa.

[@kerr1994]

I actually do think this episode has something going on under the surface. So the different gangster syndicates have divvied up the planet, they protect people from other syndicates and provide various public services in exchange for a cut of their money. The civilians complain to local gangsters the same way you would local politicians. With citizens saying things like "When's the boss gonna do something about the crummy street lights around here, eh?" "Listen, we pay our percentages. We're entitled to a little service for our money." And the bosses describe it as a society where "Nobody helps nobody but himself." It's all about individual success and not co-operation. All this by basing themselves on a then rather recent period of American history. To me, the episode is asking how different the US government really is from those gangsters running protection rackets. And if the wars they get into are anything other than gangs trying to get a bigger piece of the action. I'm sure that's taking a lot of my own politics to the table, but it's always been at least part of why I love the episode.

[@alanpennie]

The vaguely Hungarian Okmyx was such a crook that he didn't consider himself bound by the rules of Pool. The episode is basically Red Harvest with the violence turned down from 10 to 1. Kirk and his crew have become real Second Contact experts.

[@pentalarclikesit822]

I wonder in how many of his performances does Vic Tayback used the term "broad." They had him say all the time in Alice, and he says it here too. I cant' remember seeing Tayback in anything else, but he has a very weird way of saying "broad," as if he can't quite tell when he's supposed to stop the vowel. Just wonder if he was known in Hollywood as "that guy who says "broad" weird."

[@martingenerous1678]

In Strange New Worlds they revisit the notion that Kirk can't drive an automobile

[@glamourweaver]

You know, with the number of TOS episodes references contact 100 years ago - Enterprise should should really have gotten in on those prequels instead of looking to TNG era tie ins as much as they did.

[@joewhite4564]

I was not into Tarantino doing a Star Trek movie *until* I heard that it was going to be a sequel to "A Piece of the Action". Seems like a match made in heaven. Ah well.