Defending The Lights of Zetar

[Grant]

And insane Marvick made Scotty eat those silly words by the fact that from engineering and while fighting off the crew he handled the controls expertly enough to do exactly what he intended -- get the Enterprise to a screwed up place -- that without Kollos, they might not have returned from.
I'd say sane Marvick had what it took to "fly" the ship straight and true under benign coditions.

 

[PCz911]

There are many, many episodes which are far worse.
What I like: the fact that it's not some Pollyanna relationship.
She's a bit prickly.
Scotty is enraptured. It's cool. It's like life.

Ps: I like your blog. It's a fun read

 

[T'Bonz]

The show was fine, minus the lame romance.

 

[UnknownSample]

True, but he was led to believe it was his last chance for happiness, as he kinda infers when Spock comments on his illogical decision to stay on Yonada.

McCoy only finds out he's going to live at the end, after Spock gets medical info from the Fabrini computer. When McCoy announces he's not staying with her, he still thinks he's dying. All well and good, his suddenly deciding he wants to spend his remaining months out there doing research, but under these same conditions, earlier, he said yes to her proposal, and was very glad to stay. That deserves a slap in the face, something...

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe Natira felt as though it was unfair to take advantage of his condition. Or knew somehow that he belonged with his friends.

 

[UnknownSample]

She was awfully nice about it, that's for sure.

 

[Forbin]

Zetar was just on the other day! It's an episode I like to watch, and have no real problem with plotwise. I sadly admit that when I was in a newly-in-love situation, I acted pretty much like Scotty. I was a teenager, though .

My only real problem with the episode is the constant referral to this professional woman, who has the rank of lieutenant, as "The girl." Even the damn Zetarians call her that through her own mouth!!

 

[Scotchy]

I wish they had shown more of Memory Alpha (I'm sure they didn't due to budget constraints).
The croaking also creeped me out as a kid.
At least Scott didn't serenade Romaine with his bagpipes!

 

[gottacook]

This surely wouldn't have occurred to me when I first saw "For the World..." on NBC at age 12, but with respect to Natira so easily letting McCoy go, perhaps they'd been to bed and he disappointed her?

 

[UnknownSample]

My only real problem with the episode is the constant referral to this professional woman, who has the rank of lieutenant, as "The girl." Even the damn Zetarians call her that through her own mouth!!

My mother, I remember fondly, always complained about precisely that, in TV stories!

 

[UnknownSample]

This surely wouldn't have occurred to me when I first saw "For the World..." on NBC at age 12, but with respect to Natira so easily letting McCoy go, perhaps they'd been to bed and he disappointed her?

She was willing to stay with a terminally ill man till the end, so I don't think so.

 

[johnnybear]

One of the dead aliens at Memory Alpha looked like The Frankenstein monster and the other one, the lady was called Libby Erwin or was she really Margaret Armen?
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

One of the dead aliens at Memory Alpha looked like The Frankenstein monster and the other one, the lady was called Libby Erwin or was she really Margaret Armen?
JB

I thought she was Phyllis Diller with red, green and purple lights on her face.

 

[Shawnster]

I rewatched all of TOS last year. I appreciated the set dressing they built/used for Memory Alpha. Nice bit of 3rd season effort.

 

[gottacook]

This surely wouldn't have occurred to me when I first saw "For the World..." on NBC at age 12, but with respect to Natira so easily letting McCoy go, perhaps they'd been to bed and he disappointed her?

She was willing to stay with a terminally ill man till the end, so I don't think so.

Ah, but he didn't seem ill; he wasn't going to become ill for months yet. He showed not one xenopolycythemia symptom outwardly (not surprising, given that actual Earth polycythemias also have no visible symptoms). She only knew he had an incurable fatal disease because he told her so. Her reasons for being drawn to him were no more substantial than his for being drawn to her.

This, of course, wasn't the only flimsy thing about the episode. I do like it better than "Zetar," though - admittedly maybe I just like Kate Woodville more than Jan Shutan.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Her reasons for being drawn to him were no more substantial than his for being drawn to her.

I agree, but I assume that the writer knew he only had approximately 50 minutes to tell his story so he made it love at first sight for McCoy and Natira.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Kirk and Miramanee also fell in love fast, but they were able to show that two months had passed (albeit badly-nearly no significant-seeming transition to give the illusion of time passed.)

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

I can buy Scotty's love in this one better, but he still acts like a dope. I guess some ppl do, in love.

Especially a character who normally only has eyes for his engines.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Especially a character who normally only has eyes for his engines.

I guess Scotty noticed that Lt. Romaine was kind of like the Enterprise....she had large, twin nacelles.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It just seemed rushed.

And she's not alien, there's no definite indication that her people's biology has changed since being moved from Earth to Amerind.

Wondering how she knew she was pregnant so soon.