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"The Deadly Years" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 (Patreon)

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"The Deadly Years" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2

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Gregory Polander

I'm a little late in commenting, but I'll echo what everyone else said -- great episode, I'm in your second largest demographic, helping to take care of my parents who are suffering the effects of old age, great acting and make up work, and the need to have a inquiry into Kirk cause regulations and rules had to be followed for a reason. I'll add some additional thoughts -- The chain of command on the Enterprise goes from Kirk to Spock to Scotty to....well, I'm actually not sure who would get it at that point. It usually goes by rank. Scotty is Lt. Commander if I recall, so whoever is Lt. Commander would probably assume command. However, I would assume that officer would be much in the same position Commodore Stocker found himself -- they have the rank, but no experience commanding the ship. Yes, Sulu has commanded the Enterprise for brief periods, but someone would have to designate him to take over, and no one did. And yes, USUALLY the Chief Medical Officer could relieve the Captain from command if they had grounds to. However, this was a unusual case where 1) The Doctor AND all three people who would take command are ill and 2) a Flag Officer is aboard who can give commands and have them carried out due to his rank. I assumed that during the hearing the medical and science teams on the ship were continuing to work on the aging problem, you do see a little of the hustle and bustle during this episode. It's fairly common in the military for officers to be promoted to high command who never had a actual field posting, on a ship or at a base or anything. They are usually referred to as 'flag officers' or 'desk officers'. They are good officers who know their job, are quite efficient at it, and are very much both respected and needed. However, they wouldn't know the first thing about giving orders to a ship or men in the field or anything. Commodore Stocker fits that to a tee, and at LEAST for once the Commodore was actually likeable here. He resisted calling the hearing and only did so when it became clear something had to be done, had great respect for Kirk and just wanted to help, and apologized more then once about taking command. You can argue that it wasn't the 'right' decision, but per regulations and rules, he did the right thing. (I don't know if you've seen MASH, Bunny, or anyone else here has, but there was a great episode of THAT very good show where the plot was much the same issue -- an officer couldn't advance in rank unless he commanded troops, and when he tried, he was terrible at it.) However, he took a HUGE risk in ordering the Enterprise to take a shortcut to Starbase 10 across the Neutral Zone, and they almost got destroyed by the Romulans due to it. Only Kirk's sharp thinking got them out of it. And Stocker DID ask for advice, but by that time it was too late. Nice to see the Romulans return, though, as well as the use of Corbomite again. I'm not sure the 'old love' angle was needed in this episode -- there was so much going on all already, and I don't feel it really added anything to the overall plot. That's really the main knock I have on an otherwise really good episode.

Mark Gosine

Yes, that confirms it. Everything was inwented in Russia. The makeup was better than I remembered and DeForest did indeed knock it out of the park with his performance. This episode is more relevant now at my age, but I am one of the fortunate in my 60's and in great health.