“While orbiting an apparently dead planet, the Enterprise seems to experience a strange moment of "nonexistence." Captain Kirk discovers a man named Lazarus on the planet below, who claims the effect was caused by his "enemy," later revealed to be an insane version of Lazarus from an alternate dimension.”
As a child this was one of my favorite episodes, now not so much. But it’s still pretty good. The idea is great and it’s rather spot on scientifically. The problem (as Donald pointed out in Devil in the Dark), the writing was too far beyond the production. This has to be one of the worst looking TOS episodes, the visual over lays and annoying strobe lights were just, well … annoying.
That being said, I like this episode for four reasons: time traveling, alternate reality, space/time rips and a guy that looks like the singer for the Spin Doctors. Lazarus is a good vocalist, “Two Princess” is a decent jam. I saw the Spin Doctors play live along with Soul Asylum and The Screaming Trees. The bass player was awesome. Anyway, Lazarus is in a battle with his alternate universe self. Every time they fight it makes the universe freak out. Starfleet orders Kirk to figure solve this issue. It ends up that the “villain” is the real world Lazarus. Kirk traps him in the alternate dimension and then destroys his time machine.
They are always drinking coffee on this show. In fact there was a scene that I forgot to mention from a few episodes back in which the entire crew on the bridge had been drinking coffee while working ... it was so odd. I'm surprised that nobody ever smoked on Classic Star Trek. Anyway, Lazarus was supposed to be played by John Barrymore but he was nowhere to be found on the day of filming.So that got this dude. He was in an episode of Bewitched, he played the Gloucester Fisherman Statue come-to-life. Who outside of New England would even get that reference???
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It's weird that the spin doctors appeared in this episode called alternative factor and 30 years later they invented alternative music !!! That's right INVENTED
I was thinking the same thing!
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