Overall a finely acted episode, and possibly George Takei’s best performance. I remember this episode as being sort of goofy, but it wasn’t at all. I mean sure out of every possible thing that Sulu could have done, he chooses to fence people to death, but hey whatever. Spock cries and becomes very emotional (again well acted by Nimoy) and Kirk smacks him around (wonderfully overacted by Shatner).
Kirk and Spock and um … Joe, go down to the planet to retrieve some scientists. Once there they discover everyone is dead, in addition to this Spock also declares a mannequin dead. No shit. This thing is an obvious department store mannequin. Like they couldn’t have had an extra simply lie down?? So, of course Joe has to take off the glove to his contamination suit and start touching everything and apparently picking his nose. Then we see a thick liquid substance move towards his hand. Kind of like the black oil from X-Files, same idea.
Returning to the ship everyone else becomes infected by this stuff. Except for a few (Uhura, Scotty, McCoy etc). Lt. Riley gets the shit on him and turns into a typical annoying Irish guy. He then takes over the ship engine room and starts plummeting the ship towards the planet surface. A funny line occurs when Spock is crying about not telling his mother that he loved her, he’s thinking about how hard it must have been for a human to live on Vulcan, a planet with “No love, no emotions and bad taste”.
McCoy discovers a cure and starts injecting everybody. He rips Kirk’s shirt with seriously no effort, what a piece of crap. Obviously not Hanes. We also see that poor Number One has been demoted to a Nurse, how the mighty have fallen. Oh yeah and Joe dies.Spock uses a theory that works in calculations but has never been tested. It’s actually sort of interesting so I’ll just steal the description … and here it is : ” To avoid crashing into the planet, Captain Kirk orders that they are now forced to attempt a full-power restart, mixing the matter and antimatter in a cold state. To prevent the starship's warp engines from exploding, they will need to balance them into a "controlled implosion", but this has never been done before. Spock explains the physics behind this: that there is an intermix formula based on the theoretical relationship between time and antimatter, but this theory has never been tested out in an actual starship.”
It works and it sends them three days into the past. Spock comments that this opens up some possibilities for future use of time travel. Which had already been proven a few hundred years earlier in the show Enterprise! Jesus, didn’t Spock watch that show?
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Everybody always points to City on the Edge of Forever as the best Trek episode of all time. But for my money... it just doesn't get more entertaining than this. The plots get better and more well thought out, but boy is this episode fun.
And speaking of George Takei, I have kind of a funny anecdote about him from my recent trip to to social security administration office. But I'm not sure where to post it. Heh.
OH MY
I must hear this anecdote!!
Anecdote was probably over selling it.
Anyway, I had to get a new social security card recently for reasons that are too boring to go into, so I had to go down to the office and fill out some forms. Actually, that's not even true. I filled out the forms on my computer and printed them out in my apartment, and then just brought them in and showed a photo id. The process took about five minutes, but that's excluding the hour or so I spent waiting in the lobby for my turn.
Anyway... there were a bunch of TVs in the waiting room playing videos of George Takei dressing in his Star Trek uniform (well, the same colors, anyway, but without any logos or symbols that are owned by Paramount or whomever) talking about how to fill out the social security forms. All of the videos were of him talking to some old lady who was supposed to be a social security employee.
The best video was the one where the old lady said something like, "These forms are so easy, even Kirk could fill them out!" Then the camera zoomed in on George Takei and he started laughing hysterically. It was awesome. So after you finish your TOS recaps, you need to go down to your local social security office and review those videos.
okay so I get Sulu...but why is patty duke in a star trek uniform also???
mugato you can watch all the Social Security PSA's on youtube...nice production values
Oh my god those were hilarious! It's the oddest premise for a government "how to" video.
There's a problem with those videos. Sulu should be a Captain at least, and dressed in the red and black uniform that Starfleet members were wearing circa Star Trek 6. Jeeze. Do a little research, Social Security Administration!
Haha, that's a good point
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