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[camwyn]

ST:TOS last night was Bread and Circuses. The premise was a little more painfully "really? REALLY?" than Patterns of Force- there's parallel cultural development and then there's coming up with recognizable names and the English language- but the writing wasn't half bad, the satire of television and entertainment was pretty good, the acting was all around decent, and the Spock-McCoy scene in the cells was really good development on both characters. (Even if both I and the person watching it with me both saw Spock's "Oh, really?" comment as the jumping-off point for about a dozen different possible slashfics.)

The actor playing Merik looked like a red-headed version of Vladimir Putin. I'm not objecting, it was just kind of entertaining coincidence.