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A Space Oddity

Episode aired Apr 16, 2009
TV-14
43m

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7.8/10

923

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Liz Vassey in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Will a case involving a television producer killed during a sci-fi convention kindle an unlikely romance between Hodges and Wendy?Will a case involving a television producer killed during a sci-fi convention kindle an unlikely romance between Hodges and Wendy?Will a case involving a television producer killed during a sci-fi convention kindle an unlikely romance between Hodges and Wendy?

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7.8/10

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9Hitchcoc

The Writers Were Trekkies

This episode is for fun. A budding romance introduces us to a series of clips from an ersatz Star Trek show. If one has seen the originals, he or she will be able to find a matching episode to the one shown here. The plot is interesting. We get to go to Nerdland. Hodges is in love but can't pull the trigger, even when he has numerous opportunities. The Kirk character has gone sour and reacts against the positivism that the show he starred in was too saccharine. This is about mob mentality as well as sexual power.

7claudio_carvalho

Murder in the Convention

During the Whatfit Convention dedicated to the cult series from the 60's Astro Quest, Hodges stumbles upon Wendy since they are fans of the series. Out of the blue, Hodges finds the producer of the controversial series Astro Quest: Redux, Jonathan Danson, dead on the booth of his series. While investigating the case, there is a tension between Hodges and Wendy, with Hodges fantasizing Astro Quest erotic situations with her.

"A Space Oddity" is an episode of "CSI" that spoofs the cult Star Trek series from the 60's and the frequent sci-fi conventions in USA. The plot is funny in many moments and the episode is more comedy than crime. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Space Oddity"

9brueggemanntami

Live long and prosper

I loved this. How could I not. I am an avid Trekkie. It's how I was raised. The license plate on my mom's car spells out Warp 10. Watching the CSI cast recreate Star Trek episodes was so much fun.

9cchase

For Fans of ST:TOS and Both Versions of BSG...

I know it's just my opinion (that's what IMDb reviews are for, right?), but of all the post-Grissom episodes, this might be far and away the best AND the funniest. The producers and the writers are obvious ST: TOS and BSG fans, because the care they took in lovingly spoofing the details in Hodges' and Bryce's fantasies is a dead giveaway. And throwing in cameos by Ron Moore and Grace Park? HUGE plus. If you are a fan of either or any of the imitated shows, but not necessarily a CSI watcher, this is the episode that may just get you hooked. Bravo to cast, crew and especially David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Naren Shankar and Michael Nankin. Can we have more like this, please?

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Trivia
This episode spoofs Star Trek (1966). Wallace Langham, Liz Vassey, Kate Vernon, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Naren Shankar (who wrote the episode) and Ronald D. Moore (the man who shouts "You suck!") all worked on assorted Trek spin-offs in one capacity or another. Also, many of the "fantasy" sequences between Hodges and Simms are obvious spoofs of scenes from Star Trek. For example, the scene where Hodges and Simms are wearing "obedience collars" and Simms is running Hodges through training exercises is clearly an homage to the episode The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968), which has a scene that is nearly identical. Wallace Langham (Hodges) actually has a tie to Star Trek. In 1998 Wallace was in a 5th season episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled "Once Upon A Time" as a hologram character Flotter T. Water III.

Goofs
Mandy correctly points out that traveling faster than the speed of light is impossible per Einstein physics, when mocking Wendy and Hodges' love of the show. But Star Trek - Galaxy Quest's "real life" inspiration, generally follows the same laws of physics.

Ships in Star Trek do not, in fact, go faster than the speed of light - their "warp engines" effectively warp space, effectively shortening the distance the ship has to travel, at sub-light speeds. Not only does it fit within said laws of physics, it's one of the main scientific theories as to a method of humans eventually achieving interstellar travel.