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Star Trek - And the Children Shall Lead
episode 3.4
Raumschiff Enterprise - Kurs auf Markus 12
USA 1968
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Craig Huxley, James Wellman, Melvin Belli, James Doohan, Majel Barrett, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Pamelyn Ferdin, Melvin Caesar Belli, Mark Robert Brown, Brian Tochi, Louie Elias
written by Edward J. Lakso, 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 arrives at a planet that was to investigated for
colonialization by Professor Starnes (James Wellman) and his science team
- to find all the scientists dead, but their kids (Craig Huxley, Pamelyn
Ferdin, Melvin Caesar Belli, Mark Robert Brown, Brian Tochi) playing
happily among their parents' corpses. The kids are taken aboard the
Enterprise, where they continue to act weirdly, and soon they manage to
take over control of the ship via mind control that's based on fear. Only
Kirk (William Shatner) can somehow overcome his fear and put up resistance
- and of course, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) doesn't feel fear. Kirk soon
figures if the children have the power to control minds, they're probably
just tools of a mind-controlling entity themselves - and he tricks them
into calling upon their master, Gorgan (Melvin Belli), who claims to be an
angel but is actually a violent alien bent on war. Kirk then shows the
children home movies of them playing with their parents, which breaks
Gorgan's control, and while the children come to their senses and finally
start to mourn the loss of their parents, Gorgan slowly vanishes into thin
air. William Shatner gloriously overacts in the scene where
he's fighting his own fears in a way only Shatner can (get away with), but
other than that, this episode is rather mundane, as its alien just looks
silly, its basic threat - death by the hand of children - isn't really
milked for full effect but really reduced to a simple gesture of the
children boxing the air, and the death-by-home-movie solution is really a
bit of a letdown. Sure, for fans there's still plenty to like or at least
laugh at, but as a whole this isn't even half as good as it could have
been.
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