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Captain of the Enterprise Kirk (William Shatner) and a landing party - ship doctor Bones (DeForest Kelley), geologist D'Amato (Arhtur Batanides) and Sulu (George Takei) beam down onto a planet that's a physical improbability, as despite being the size of the earth's moon, it has an earth-like atmosphere and gravity. The planet though proves to be an almost barren rock, with the scarce vegetation being on the poisonous side and no drinking water - so nowhere one would want to stay longer than necessary. Which is bad, because after our landing party experience an earthquake, they find out the Enterprise is no longer in orbit. In fact the Enterprise has been hurled halfway across the universe, and First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) now makes every effort to bring her back to save the landing party - something that's hampered by the ship accelerating almost beyond breaking point, and a beautiful woman, Losira (Lee Meriwether) showing up out of nowhere every now and again, killing crewmembers by touch.

Losira also shows up on the planet, kills D'Amato (even though he didn't wear a red shirt), then almost kills Sulu, but Kirk and Bones intervene. The three of them figure out that Losira must not be a real woman at all but computer-generated and programmed to always only kill one particular person, which mean if the respective two others shield the would-be victim, they'd be fine. Eventually, they're lured into a cave that's pretty much the computer brain of the planet, where they are attacked by three Losira's, each programmed to kill one of them - which is when Spock and friends beam down to destroy the computer, as Scotty has only just short circuited the systems to save the ship, and then they figured everything else out. Turns out the planet has long become barren, its inhabitants extinct, only its defense system - Lorisa - lived on ...

Now Lee Meriwether, and in this outfit too, sure is a sight for sore eyes. And the "earthquake" mainly showing how wobbly the set actually is, is at least fun. Other than that, not one of the better episodes, as too many ideas seem to be crammed into it, with little rhyme or reason, and the resolution of most story threads just comes across as silly. Some fun, sure, but not one to remember.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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