World Enough And Time Review
The first thing that catches you, if you can forgive the Annie Lennox Vulcan, is the interesting, innovative, and original directing. It’s not often that the directing of a show or movie gets my attention so that’s saying something.
The beginning is very exciting with great, nay, perfect special effects.
James Cawley’s performance has greatly improved, leaving almost no room for further improvement. He has become Kirk. Perhaps, dare I say, even a BETTER Kirk.
The writing is absolutely brilliant. Funny, charming, emotionally engaging.
Charles Root and his accent appears quite rough and almost comical upon first viewing but I have found that on each subsequent viewing it becomes more natural, if that makes any sense.
I only have one complaint about this episode: not enough DeSalle.
Seeing George Takei again, and seeing him really sink his teeth into a role, being given great dramatic and comedic moments…I’d give my left nut for an Excelsior series or movie.
Visually it’s a little darker but thankfully not to the extreme that Generations took things. It’s actually rather colourful, vibrant even.
I was worried about the Kirk-gets-the-girl thing but they handled it brilliantly.
John Kelly’s performance has also come a long way; he used to be my least favorite character – now I don’t have one. Well, Charles Root I guess – largely because the accent kept making my girlfriend laugh the first time I got to see the whole thing straight through, it was kind of distracting.
This episode has great character bits for all the major characters except maybe Chekov (and don’t get me started on that!).
Everything seems more natural, more organic (which I suppose is an ironic thing to say about a SciFi show).
George’s Takei’s performance…wow, what can you say? Were this a different medium the word Emmy or Oscar would be bandied about…and rightly so.
DS9 has ‘The Visitor’, TNG has ‘Sarek’ (although popular opinion favours ‘The Inner Light’), Voyager has ‘Timeless’, and Enterprise has ‘Twilight’. Now TOS has ‘World Enough And Time’.
By God it’s good. However many people have seen it (40,000 at the launch, 115,000 on the first day), it isn’t enough. This needs, no, this DESERVES widespread mainstream exposure. And this is only the 4th episode, depending on how you count. What broadcast TV show turned out scripts of this quality by the 4th episode? Maybe the new Doctor Who, maybe…can’t think of much else.
