Every first Monday of the month, the Independent screens a cult classic movie.
This month, on Monday, Nov. 3, starting at 8 p.m., to be precise, they're mixing it up a little and instead showing three episodes of the original Star Trek series. What could be better?
What could be better is if they were showing three episodes considered among the very best in the series: "Mirror, Mirror,""Arena," and "Amok Time."
"Arena" has William Shatner's Captain Kirk in single combat with a lizard-like Gorn, one of the relatively few aliens in the series who weren't just people with stuff glued to their face.
"Amok Time" is about — and I'm totally serious here — Spock getting so horny he goes berserk. It was the second season premiere and the first appearance of the navigator Chekov, who we now tend to think of as having been around for the whole run.
Easily the most well-known of the episodes is "Mirror, Mirror," which introduced the now-standard trope that the evil, alternate-universe versions of beloved characters must wear goatees. This may fall after Halloween proper, but we strongly encourage you to attend in Evil drag.