Saturday, March 31, 2012

Star trek TAS EPISODES 4-6

Ep. 4 The Lorelei Signal

The male crew is turned into puddy in the hands of a beautiful alien race of women. They all look like She-Ra. The women kidnap the men and force them to wear headbands that drain them of their life force. The women use this to keep young forever. But why not take other women?? I really don't know. The cool part is that Uhura takes command of the Enterprise and puts together a female crew to save the males. I have a feeling that Shatner would never have let this episode happen in live action.

Ep. 5 More Tribbles, More Troubles

While on the way to bring grain to Shermans Planet, the Enterprise encounter a Klingon Cruiser attacking a small ship. They manage to beam over the small ships captain and to everyone's surprise it's Cyrano Jones. He has genetically modified Tribbles that grow huge instead of multiplying. The Klingons want Jones dead and they have a new weapon to aid them. Kirk manages to stop the Klingon weapon and the Klingons reveal that they will be happy to have back a certain animal that preys on Tribbles. Evidently Jones has stolen this predator. Kirk gives them back the animal and I guess Jones goes to jail or something. Not sure. It's interesting that Star Trek is bringing up the topic of genetic modifications way back in 1973.



Ep. 6 The Survivor

A little goofy, but intriguing. The Enterprise encounter a ship piloted by Carter Winston (voiced by Ted Knight). Winston has been missing for 5 years. Taken aboard the Enterprise, Winston reconnects with a former love (a female Ensign).

Here's where is takes a twist. The Romulans show up and we now see that Winston is really a shape shifter under their control. He morphs into many crew members and sabotages the ship. Suddenly the Romulans attack.

Here's were it takes another twist. The alien spy is suddenly torn between his Romulan masters and the female ensign. Even though he is not really Carter Winston he finds that he really does love her. He eventually switches sides and helps Kirk defeat the Romulans. Nonetheless, Kirk arrests him for being a spy.

2 comments:

Donald said...

These all sound pretty awful.

Mugato said...

Round 2 of the Animated Series ... not nearly as good as the first group. At least they are short and easy to watch.