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A drug deal between Joachim and David Kirk goes sour. Picard, being a hardass about the prime directive, decides not to get involved.
This one brings back memories, which I shall now inflict upon this board.
The late 80s featured the red ribbon anti-drug campaign. I jokingly tied one of these red ribbons around the radio antenna of my roomate's '61 VW van. He rolled his eyes when he saw it, but left it on. It went well with the D.A.R.E. shirt that I wore when the two of us stumbled out of the van Spiccoli style and went to class dazed and glassy eyed. We were both A students, but one of the instructors called us Cheech and Chong.
When we watched this episode, we had the giggles. David Kirk and his sidekick (who wore redneck suspenders) doing their jonesing routine somehow seemed hilarious. We were literally rofl when Tasha started lecturing Wesley about the dangers of using narcotics to escape reality.
"The Enterprise should have a red ribbon tied to it," said my roommate.
Reply by Nexus71
on May 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM
I used to own a VHS of Trainspotting and in that they made a cut to the door and added text said "The worst toilet of Scotland" in later versions that was scrapped and it doesn't appear anymore.But the scene is both disgusting and also quite funny when Renton is at the point of putting his hand in the bowl and where is almost on the point of throwing up
Reply by revengine
on May 12, 2018 at 3:32 PM
Why would they take that out? That part was hilarious.
Reply by Nexus71
on May 12, 2018 at 4:10 PM
Don't know but in the first release they show the door and words are superimposed over the shot of the "toilet" sign with The Worst ......... of Scotland"handwritten maybe people complained that it was bad publicity for scotland or something people get their knickers in a twist for less these days.
Reply by revengine
on May 13, 2018 at 4:16 AM
I remember that part of the door with "Worst ______ in Scotland" superimposed around the word toilet vividly. I know it's not vital to the rest of the scene, as we can clearly see those facilities are horrible once he enters, but still, it was good for a laugh. Gotta love this PC culture and the offended victims olympics everyone seems to be a part of.
Reply by Nexus71
on May 14, 2018 at 10:45 PM
Gotta love this PC culture and the offended victims olympics everyone seems to be a part of.
Yeah tell me about Rev it has become so obnoxious and sometimes so downright preposterous that I tend to question these people's sanity or their sense of reality.