From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jwsdisney@bellsouth.net   
   Subject: Re: Friday's Child: my review   
      
   On Nov 26, 10:52apm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
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   > McCoy: Gets a fair amount of focus in this episode, which may be the   
   > best thing about the episode. DeForest Kelly is terrific, whether   
   > playing with McCoy's familiarity with the Capellan culture (McCoy   
   > artfully calling Kras a liar is a rare highlight), or mixing sternness   
   > with compassion in his treatment of Eleen, Kelly brings the various   
   > parts of McCoy's character to life.   
   Also this episode is noted for another piece of trivia: the continuing   
   "I'm a doctor, not a ..."   
   -   
   When "Mac-Coy" is trying to help Eleen up the side of a mountain, he   
   desperately tries to get help from Kirk and Spock, complaining that   
   "I'm a doctor, not an escalator".   
   -   
   > That role is fulfilled by Kras (Tige Andrews), the Klingon who has   
   > managed to gain Maab's trust. Kras oozes evil in his every scene. Kras   
   > enters rooms evilly, delivers all lines evilly, and probably even   
   > snores evilly, while dreaming evil dreams of evil. After John Colicos'   
   > splendid, multi-dimensional Kor in Errand of Mercy, Kras is a big   
   > comedown - a one note, comic book villain. You can practically hear   
   > "boo's" and hisses every time he slithers on-screen. He also appears   
   > to be quite stupid, given the manner in which he suicidally shows his   
   > "true colors" at the end.   
   Tige Andrews was really "chewing up the scenery" in this episode.   
   It is hard to think of him as the police captain in "The Mod Squad".   
   > Another exercise in mediocrity, serviceable without being at all   
   > satisfying. I can, at least, see why some of these episodes were   
   > buried well down the broadcast sequence, despite being produced first.   
   > Given that the ratings were already far from outstanding in the first   
   > season, leading off the second season with three weak episodes in a   
   > row may well have killed the show before it got enough episodes under   
   > its belt for syndication to rescue it a decade later.   
   In this episode, some of the scenes that usually get cut from   
   syndication are Scotty's scenes.   
   While Kirk and company are fighting the Capellans, Scotty is kept   
   busy, playing cat-and-mouse with the Klingon ship.... which is just   
   staying out of sensor range.  Of course, since we never even see the   
   ship (except as a blob of light), it is a sneaky way of trimming the   
   budget, too.   
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