Isolation marathon (Part 1).

Meedyah Morsels #231.
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Post 25 away from 3000 posts!

With all the new shows shut down for quarantine, time to dig into my stockpile....


Star Trek: Fan Collective
(2006-2008)

A pretty damned good cross-section of the Trek universe for the beginner and the fan.

Don't know who Q is?
Watch the Q set, you'll know who Q is.
Don't know anything about Klingons?
The Klingon set will give you an earful of their culture.
You'll be an expert.

Lotta overlapping doubles if you get 'em all, but there's still enough new stuff between them.

Most of the best ones of all the series are in there.

Only a teeny handful that I think are missing.
Like "Emissary", for DS9, or "Birthright", for TNG and the Klingons.

Dunno if these are still out there to buy.
Glad I got 'em relatively new.

Just got done burning though 'em all a couple days ago.
You can hold out for 2 weeks with these babies.


Star Trek: The Kelvin trilogy.
(2009, 2013, 2016)

Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond.

Back to back to back as bonus episodes to TOS?
Beautiful.
Even Into Darkness.
Loved it.
Especially coming off the episodes, and Picard.


The Keep (1983)

Michael Mann's first movie.
About some Nazis that guard a Romanian fortress that has strategic value, and then they set loose an evil wizard ghost who looks like an action figure.

From here in comments...

I'm finally watching "The Keep".

Young Ian McKellan in old age makeup doing an old man voice is like he's doing an impression of his older self that he saw with a time machine.

Wild!

For comparison, young Shatner as his old self wasn't even close, Patrick Stewart as his old self wasn't even close, but McKellan nails it.

Also..

And, seen it now.

There's neat imagery in there, and the style is cool if you're into Mann's early MTV music video style, but it didn't really rock my world.
Cool to see as a piece of film history.
I can see why it has a cult following.
I liked the comic book villain look of the evil ghost.

Yeah, it was nifty, but I don't think I'd watch it again.

And finally...

And, the sex scene probably would have made my pants explode if I saw it when I was 13.
But nowadays with all the porn out there?
Eh.

And, that's those.
Now, to catch up on accumulated podcasts, and then back to Trek.
Probably the animateds, and the classic movies.



Previously with MM-

Star Trek: Picard (2020) (MM #230)