As part of the Eugene celebration of specialness, the McDonald Theatre acknowledged the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek in their "Best of the Best" Film Festival. They showed "The Man Trap" -- the first televised episode of Star Trek -- and it was free. Why free? Well, "Best of the Best Film Festival" didn't really apply to a film in this case. It meant a rented DVD from Flicks n' Picks. Can't show those to the public and charge for it. That would be bad. Even worse is enlarging it for a big screen. Odd how the sound was so funny. Oh well. On the plus side it had Kirk running in serpentine and the memorable line "Quit thinking with your glands" -- not said to Kirk in this case, but to Bones. Weird. [The second most memorable line of the night was from Steven Brence: "Bones is a post."]
Makes you wonder what would have happened if someone had checked out the disc before the McDonald got hold of it. Would have been a short festival, I guess.
There was also a costume contest with no contestants and a Q&A session led by a production assistant (see: "lackey") who worked on The Next Generation and a director of a web film who not only seemed completely unconnected to his film, but also didn't really care much about Star Trek outside of the fact that it gave him a low-paying job for a few hours. But I digress. As an example of Eugene specialness, the Q&A was typical: "I like to speak in Vulcan."
We left quickly afterwards.
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