Oh, wow, "Journey to Babel" is one of my very favorite episodes! I adore that one. It has everything -- character development, mystery, Spock's parents, Spock being noble, Kirk being heroic, McCoy being an actual physician and not just a gadfly, a colorful assortment of Federation races, everything. I'm amazed that Dorothy Fontana managed to cram so much into 51 minutes AND have it all make sense.
Oooh, and you get to be the murder victim! Will you be stuffed inside a Jeffries tube, or do you guys just stand and read your lines? It's probably better for you if you do the latter, since I doubt a Jeffries tube is very comfortable. :-) And will you wear pigface Tellarite make-up? "You! Sarek of Vulcan, how do YOU vote?"
Sorry, got carried away for a second. :-)
Gosh, you'll need a really excellent actress doing Spock. That scene in Spock's quarters where Amanda begs Spock to give up command of the ship so he can serve as a blood donor for Sarek, he refuses, and she slaps him and says she'll hate him for the rest of his life -- Spock has to sound appropriately Vulcan there ... and she also has to let us know that behind the Vulcan facade, her heart is breaking. That's a hugely difficult thing to do, and I still don't know how Mr. Nimoy did it, except that the man was a genius.
Yes, I'd love to come see it. I haven't been well enough to make it to Arisia for quite a number of years now. Actually, I'm rarely well enough to leave the %$#@ house. But please do keep us posted about when and where the performances will be! I'd love to see you AND your show (and your Wabbit, too).
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Date: 2015-11-26 04:48 pm (UTC)Oooh, and you get to be the murder victim! Will you be stuffed inside a Jeffries tube, or do you guys just stand and read your lines? It's probably better for you if you do the latter, since I doubt a Jeffries tube is very comfortable. :-) And will you wear
pigfaceTellarite make-up? "You! Sarek of Vulcan, how do YOU vote?"Sorry, got carried away for a second. :-)
Gosh, you'll need a really excellent actress doing Spock. That scene in Spock's quarters where Amanda begs Spock to give up command of the ship so he can serve as a blood donor for Sarek, he refuses, and she slaps him and says she'll hate him for the rest of his life -- Spock has to sound appropriately Vulcan there ... and she also has to let us know that behind the Vulcan facade, her heart is breaking. That's a hugely difficult thing to do, and I still don't know how Mr. Nimoy did it, except that the man was a genius.
Yes, I'd love to come see it. I haven't been well enough to make it to Arisia for quite a number of years now. Actually, I'm rarely well enough to leave the %$#@ house. But please do keep us posted about when and where the performances will be! I'd love to see you AND your show (and your Wabbit, too).