Episode info - people to powder

[mrcadman]

In one episode, a weapon was used on crewmembers that removed the water from their bodies, reducing them to little geometric shapes, something like a pastel octogon or such.
I can clearly see Kirk and crew coming down the corridor stepping around little crew-blocks.......
I NEEEEEED to know the name of this episode.

 

[mrcadman]

got it, By Any Other Name.

 

[scotpens]

The technology for reducing people to plaster cuboctahedrons was never explained, but it would probably involve a bit more than just dehydrating them like powdered eggs or milk.

 

[mrcadman]

I needed to do this pic. There is a Antenna Attenuation issue with the new Iphone and it's kinda results from our bodies being "bags of water". Thus, this solution.....

 

[Hermiod]

The technology for reducing people to plaster cuboctahedrons was never explained, but it would probably involve a bit more than just dehydrating them like powdered eggs or milk.

That incident actually links in to this thread. It's a very rare instance of a woman dying instead of a man in Star Trek.

 

[Nerys Myk]

People to the Powder!!!!! Right on!

 

[Therin of Andor]

I saw this done to lots of Andorians in a local "Lush" store.

 

[Pauln6]

It was cool when they pulled the switch and killed the woman for a change. It also links into the transporter as a kill/clone machine debate.

 

[FormerLurker]

The technology for reducing people to plaster cuboctahedrons was never explained, but it would probably involve a bit more than just dehydrating them like powdered eggs or milk.

That incident actually links in to this thread. It's a very rare instance of a woman dying instead of a man in Star Trek.

It's an extremely rare 1960's era instance of a white woman dying instead of a black man. Didn't play well in Dixie.

 

[ToddPence]

There's four examples of Enterprise crew women dying in TOS: Elizabeth Dehner in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (although techincally she wasn't really an Enterprise crew woman);, Karen Tracy in "Wolf in the Fold"; Lt. Galway in "The Deadly Years"; and the aforementioned Yeoman Thompson.

 

[Red Ranger]

I always thought that technology was cool. It would mean that if the Kelvans reached Andromeda 300 years later, the whole crew could be brought back and not aged a day.

 

[Doug Otte]

The technology for reducing people to plaster cuboctahedrons was never explained, but it would probably involve a bit more than just dehydrating them like powdered eggs or milk.

That incident actually links in to this thread. It's a very rare instance of a woman dying instead of a man in Star Trek.

It's an extremely rare 1960's era instance of a white woman dying instead of a black man. Didn't play well in Dixie.

I don't remember ever reading about that reaction in the South, but then I'm infamous around here for forgetting things. Is it documented in one of the Trek books?

Doug

 

[scotpens]

It's an extremely rare 1960's era instance of a white woman dying instead of a black man. Didn't play well in Dixie.

I don't remember ever reading about that reaction in the South, but then I'm infamous around here for forgetting things. Is it documented in one of the Trek books?

I'm quite sure FormerLurker was being facetious. Or ironic. Or both.

 

[Doug Otte]

It's an extremely rare 1960's era instance of a white woman dying instead of a black man. Didn't play well in Dixie.

I don't remember ever reading about that reaction in the South, but then I'm infamous around here for forgetting things. Is it documented in one of the Trek books?

I'm quite sure FormerLurker was being facetious. Or ironic. Or both.

Ah. I forgot to mention. In addition to being sporadically memory-impaired, I'm also credulous.

Doug

 

[T'Girl]

I wonder if there was some sort of message there,

white girl into white cube, black guy into purple cube?

 

[scotpens]

^ As far as I can tell, all the shapes were the same color. It must be a trick of the light.

And they're not cubes, they're cuboctahedrons!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboctahedron

 

[Sector 7]

The technology for reducing people to plaster cuboctahedrons was never explained, but it would probably involve a bit more than just dehydrating them like powdered eggs or milk.

Turning people to powdered cuboctahedrons is easy, putting them back together... now that's the trick, laddie!

 

[Roberta Lincoln]

This episode always creeped me out at this point -- I didn't want either of them to be killed and you KNEW it was going to happen to one of them!

I still notice it to this day -- yesterday in fact when I watched it again for the umpteenth time.

 

[mb22]

Julie Cobb, who played Yeoman Thompson (her first role) is the daughter of Lee J. Cobb and was married to James Cromwell (ST: FIRST CONTACT).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167784/bio

 

[Redfern]

And of course, the observation that comes up whenever this sequence is discussed, "I'd hate to see what Thompson would have looked like had Rojan 'reconstituted' the crushed block! Can you say, 'meat grinder?'"

Sincerely,

Bill