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Star Trek - Is There in Truth No Beauty
episode 3.5
Raumschiff Enterprise - Die fremde Materie
USA 1968
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Ralph Senensky
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur, David Frankham, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig
written by Jean Lisette Aroeste, 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 is to host Medusan ambassador Kolos, which is quite a
challenge, because while Medusans are utterly benign, they look so hideous
that they would drive any human who sees one of them insane, and even
Vulcans can only see them with a special visor. Now Kolos, who's kept in a
box, is accompanied by two humans, blind telepath Dr. Jones (Diana
Muldaur), who has been trained on Vulcan and who hopes to create a
mindlink between herself and Kolos one day, and tech guru Marvick (David
Frankham), who's actually in love with Dr. Jones, a love unrequitted,
which he blames on Kolos. Thus he tries to kill Kolos - but of course to
kill him means to look at him, which drives him mad and before you know
it, he has steered the Enterprise outside the known universe, then
collapsed and died. Now to return the Enterprise to the known universe it
would need a mind link between Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Kolos, something
Dr. Jones would never permit, so Captain Kirk (William Shatner),
intergalactic womanizer, invites her to a romantic dinner while Spock does
the deed, and she finds out only too late, when the Enterprise is back on
familiar soil. So out of jealousy she sees to it that at the end of the
mind link looks at Kolos without his visor - and he's soon in a catatonic
state, and the only one who can help him is of all people Dr. Jones - but
she needs an earful from Captain Kirk to actually get the job done. One
of the more boring episodes of Star Trek, in part because its main alien
is kept in a box throughout, and when it's supposed to be shown it's just
some lame light effects. Meanwhile the actual story, of a weird love
triangle, is rather static and dialogue-heavy, with too much of an
emphasis put on over-explaining things, as well as pretty much ditching
the science fiction angle for a tale of love and jealousy, and the episode
takes itself very seriously at that. But what's worst, the whole thing
isn't all that entertaining.
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