In 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock was one of several convicted for abetting those avoiding the Draft. The sentence was appealed and a later court decision set aside the verdict. (pic via @pikeshorse)

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... After doing some research, I found that Changan had been using that logo since 1957.

Found these with my dad’s old stuff. No idea how he got them and my mom isn’t sure either. Nothing else was with them.

Any idea how much these would be worth? Best place to get these authenticated? Any insight appreciated!!

Theme Month: "Whodunit?, Part I"

Our characters tackle a mystery.

Episode: "Eye of the Beholder" - TNG, 718

Airdate: February 28, 1994

Teleplay by René Echevarria; Directed by Cliff Bole

Brief summary: "Counselor Troi's investigation into the suicide of a crewman suggests a murder was committed aboard the Enterprise while it was being built, and that the murderer is still aboard."

Background: René Echevarria was a writer, producer, and story editor on both TNG and DS9. He has writing credits on 18 episodes of TNG and 23 of DS9. After Trek, he worked on Dark Angel, Now and Again, The 4400, Teen Wolf, Medium, Castle, and more. The story for this episode is credited to Brannon Braga. Braga joined the franchise during pre-production for TNG's fourth season, eventually writing, co-writing, or creating the story for 109 episodes of TNG, VOY, and ENT, plus two films. Post-Trek, Braga has worked on Threshold, 24, Cosmos, The Orville, and more.

Cliff Bole was a prolific television director for over thirty years. He helmed 42 episodes of Trek, including 25 of TNG, 7 of DS9, and 10 of VOY. Outside the franchise, he directed episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, Vega$, MacGyver, The X-Files, Spencer for Hire, and many more. The Trek alien race, the Bolians, are named for him.

Guest Cast: Mark Rolston (Pierce) is a character actor known for his roles in Aliens, Robocop 2, The Shawshank Redemption, The X-Files, Babylon 5, ER, The Shield, and many more. He also appeared in two episodes of ENT.

Nancy Harewood (Nara) has appeared in many shows and films, including Roots: The Next Generations, Charlie's Angels, and TJ Hooker.

Tim Lounibos (Kwan) provided a voice for Star Trek: Away Team, plus he has appeared in episodes of The Practice, The West Wing, Passions, Bosch, General Hospital, and others.

Johanna McCloy (Calloway) may be best recognized for her many commercial appearances in the '90s for brands such as Ford, Miller Light, Purina, Payless Shoes, and episodes of Mad TV.

Nora Leonhardt ("woman") worked as a stand-in for both Marina Sirtis and Roxann Biggs-Dawson during the runs of TNG and VOY.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_(episode)

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Upcoming episodes in this Theme Month ...

• "Necessary Evil" - DS9, 208
• "Field of Fire" - DS9, 713
• "Juggernaut" - VOY, 521

Of course, the femme fatale Sumuru was featured in the riffed films The Million Eyes of Sumuru (MST3K's K18 and 1309) and The Girl from Rio (RiffTrax, 2019). Both of those films, starring Shirley Eaton as the title character, were bad but they were at least fun. This Sumuru is not. (You can ignore Amazon's AI summation in the cyan text above.)

Model and Playmate Alexandra Kamp is the titular character and Stargate's Michael Shanks is our hero(?). Despite the pedigree of the lead, this is a decidedly PG-13 affair, both in skin and violence.

Sax Rohmer created Sumuru in the 1940s at the request of the BBC. They wanted to make some of his stories into radio serials but didn't want to use his Fu-Manchu character as that would offend UK's ally, China. Thus, Rohmer created the evil mastermind Sumuru, rehashing Fu-Manchu's evil schemes but with a "feminist" bent. The earlier films used this to great effect along with the sexual politics of the age in which they were made making them an amusing snapshot of the era.

None of that is present here.

The story is set some 900 years in the future on a lost Earth colony ruled by women. Sumuru is not evil and she has no schemes or aims of world domination. Antagonism comes from a cult which worships an enormous CG cobra that occasionally pops up to eat people (not a joke). Their leader, Taxon, is closer to the "real" Sumuru than anything the character with that name exudes: Taxon is evil, she has schemes, she's brutal, she is disgusted by men, etc.

Now let's talk sex. Women are the leaders, priests, soldiers, etc. Men are workers, sacrifices, and the like. Men are hated by the cult; generally disliked by Sumuru's people. And ... that's about it. There's no attempt at a statement, no commentary on the then-contemporary social mores, no wacky/winky sexy humor. The only attempts at humor come from the the standard-issue male sidekick who crashes on this planet along with Shanks and, as one might expect, those comic shots land as gracefully as their ship did. Throw in a long-haired kid and his dog named "Dog" and you've got yourself ninety minutes of wasted time.

Sumuru -- don't think about it, won't you? Thank you.