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Star Trek: The Way to Eden (1969) Season 3, Episode 20

The Enterprise encounters a group of space hippies in search of the planet Eden

[1/10 · 14 March 2008]

This episode was a preview of Star Trek V:The Final Frontier with the same premise of searching for Eden. Although Star Trek V was the search for god with a similarly bad storyline. But, Star Trek is like pizza or sex. Even when it's horribly bad as this episode it's still good.

The story itself is so 1960's dated using space hippies who are led by a madman in search of the planet Eden. When they finally do arrive there, the planet is not a paradise but dangerous to humans.

The third season is well chronicled for Star Trek being produced on a shoe string budget. Even creator Gene Roddenberry had given up and left for MGM to pursue other projects. Still, this is one of the 79 episodes and is classic campy Trek.

Crash (I) (2004)

Crash seems to make its own accident

[6/10 · 4 February 2006]

Maybe I'm just naive and I was impressed that this movie had such A-list talent. I thought the script was too contrived and having grown up in San Francisco and being Chinese-American, I would like to think I am "color blind" to such issues. Sure I've had my own feelings of stereotyping other races but not to the extent that these characters did in this movie. I think Los Angeles is an area of 10-15 million and how could this movie so easily intertwine the 10 or so characters in this movie? Hollywood!!! Entertaining, but too much of a morality play. Perhaps a movie of this kind is best shown to an audience in some Podunk town in Alabama where they still think Whites and Blacks should live in separate environments. I for one just thought it was WAAAAAY over the top. Still, I was impressed by the acting. The script just tries too hard to be something of an ABC after-school special.

Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s (2003 TV Movie)

The glory days of the Oakland A's and Raiders

[10/10 · 30 December 2005]

When HBO always touts itself by saying, "It's not TV, it's HBO" they deserve an award when it comes to their sports documentaries. Narrated by the golden tones of Liev Schrieber, this hour long tribute to Oakland's football and baseball teams of the 1970's is not to be missed. From a sports journalist who currently covers both teams on a daily basis, the current squads are nowhere near the mystique that the A's had nor the swagger the Raiders did. Back in the day, the Raiders were tough, mean, and GOOD. Now they're just mean... As far as the A's, they've returned to their winning ways since 1999 but the green and gold's glory days will always be the 1970's when they won three World Series. Although the feat has since been accomplished by the New York Yankees, the A's did it primarily through their farm system and didn't have to employ a rent-a-player strategy like the Yankees.