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Star Trek - Return to Tomorrow
episode 2.20
Raumschiff Enterprise - Geist sucht Körper
USA 1968
produced by John Meredyth Lucas, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Ralph Senensky
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Cindy Lou, Majel Barrett
written by John T. Dugan (as John Kingsbridge), created by Gene Roddenberry, music by George Duning
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The Enterprise explore a planet that has been totally destroyed by a
big war hundreds of thousands years ago, but to everyone's surprise, there
were (and still are) three survivors, Sargon, his wife Thalassa and
Sargon's former enemy Henoch, who are the last of their race and pure
energy now. But they ask the Enterprise to temporarily take over the
bodies of Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and attractive
guest scientist Dr. Ann Mulhall (Diana Muldaur) to build themselves
androids to walk among the living again, teach them and let them profit
from the accomplishments they have made before destroying themselves in a
war to end all wars. Against the objections of Dr. McCoy (DeForest
Kelley), Kirk, Spock and Dr. Mulhall agree, and of course, there are
dangers, as the hosts' bodies tend to reject their new operators, so have
to be under constant medical supervision and given shots every few hours.
Fortunately though, Henoch, who inhabits Spock's body, is quick in
producing these shots. There's a problem though, while Sargon and
Thalassa's motives are noble, Henoch wants to stay in Spock rather than be
transferred to a android, so he gives Sargon, in Kirk's body, shots that
eventually kill him while trying to win Thalassa over to his side. For a
while, it seems to work even, but then Sargon, who has somehow escaped
Kirk's body before he died, appeals to Thalassa's conscience, and they
devise a plan to save Kirk (as Kirk) and drive Henoch out of Spock's body,
even if they lose their own lives in the process ... Storywise,
Return to Tomorrow is simplistic and muddled at the same time, and
not all of it makes sense, even when suspending one's disbelief. But
seeing Shatner overacting it as only Shatner can and Leonard Nimoy playing
against type once possessed by Henoch does make up for many of the
narrative shortcomings, making this not a very good but a fun episode
after all.
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