Love this one. Commodore Matthew Decker is the man, he's even more rogue than Kirk and he looks more like a sea boat captain than a starship one. Decker totally makes this episode, he is by far the star, William Windom is just awesome in this episode. The Doomsday Machine is a ... machine that travels through space and destroys worlds. All they know is that it comes from another galaxy, they don't know who made it or it's purpose. The Enterprise encounters the Constillation as it floats nearly destroyed in space. Kirk and Scotty find the only survivor is Decker and he's half mad. Kirk has Decker beam over to the Enterprise while Scotty tries to fix the Constellation.
The Doomsday Machine returns and Decker relieves Spock ... from his duty people, get your mind out of the gutter. Decker attempts to attack the Machine but Spock stops him. Then the Commodore goes rogue and steals a Shuttlecraft and drives right into the Doomsday Machine, it doesn't work. But, Kirk gets an idea and him and Scotty rig the Constellation and send it right into the Machine (they obviously beam off first). The ship acts like a nuclear bomb and destroys the weird looking space worm. Kirk then comments about nuclear devices in the 20th century. Also, it was written by Norman Spinrad ... now I must post the greatest book cover of all time (of which Capt. Naps has owned every alternate version).
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This is an excellent episode. I feel that the show Enterprise really missed out on something here. Remember the entire season two of Enterprise when the race from a different galaxy built a large machine that destroyed worlds? Yeah, well it had nothing to do with this/ But why the hell not! That wold have salvaged some of season two if they could have made that entire plot out to be the origin of the Doomsday Machine. Also, Uhura is replaced by a white girl in this episode.
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I seriously own 5 different copies of that Iron Dreams book.
you spinrad me right round baby like norman spinrad baby right round
It's not even a good book, at least it's not better than that Phillip Jose Farmer book.
Every Jose farmer book is great
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