TV picks for Aug. 28: 'The Mummy,' 'Disjointed,' 'Star Trek'

August 27, 2017 at 7:00PM
Rachel Weisz (at center) and Brendan Fraser (right) star in the 1999 movie "The Mummy." Photo by Industrial Light & Magic, courtesy of Universal Pictures.
Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser in 1999’s “The Mummy.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Bad trip

Producer Chuck Lorre ("The Big Bang Theory") and Kathy Bates ("Misery") must have been high when they signed up for "Disjointed," a sitcom set in a Los Angeles pot dispensary. Turning the canned laughter up to "11" fails to drown out the half-baked dialogue and sketchy characters. There's an admirable subplot about a security officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but his story gets lost in the haze.

Now streaming on Netflix

Somewhere in time

Those anticipating CBS Digital Access' "Star Trek: Darkness" and Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville" may be itching to go back and sample the original "Star Trek." You can start with the 1967 episode "The City on the Edge of Forever," in which the gang travels back to the Great Depression and Capt. Kirk romances a ravishing Joan Collins. It's one of the series' most ambitious (and entertaining) excursions.

7 p.m., Heroes and Icons Channel

'Mummy' dearest

If Tom Cruise's 2017 version of "The Mummy" left you cold, try revisiting the 1999 take starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Director Stephen Sommers, who grew up in St. Cloud and attended St. John's University, keeps the action rolling in more of a tribute to Indiana Jones than Boris Karloff.

9:05 p.m., Cinemax

Neal Justin

March 1, 1957 MISSION WORKER - Joan Collins stars as Sister Edith Keeler, a skid row mission worker who meets crew members of the space U. S. S. Enterprise when they return in time 200 years to the tragic depression days of the 1930's in "City On The Edge of Forever" on NBC-TV's colorcast of "Star Trek" Thursday, March 30 (8:30-9:30 p.m. PST & EST; 7:30-8:30 p.m. CST).
Joan Collins in “Star Trek.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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