Episode of the Week : The Lights of Zetar
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If you've only seen it remastered, you've never seen it. They inserted a mundane, random effect for the jarring original. No punch to the possessions, at all, no weird otherworldliness.
Sixish. Definitely one I like to watch. Scotty is a little over the top with the sappy romance. Kirk constantly referring to one of his lieutenants as "the girl" was obnoxious even in the 60s. But the psychedelic Zetarian special effect was creepy-cool, and the story was okay.
Eight. Solid story, makes excellent use of Year 3's lower budget, and brings in an appealing guest star in Jan Shutan. Also a well-placed re-use of Courage's indelible music score from WNMHGB.
I like a good bottle show, too. The ship gets featured more.
No...just no. 5.
Scotty in love always makes me cringe.
I watch and just cant help thinking " this was written by Lambchop". For those under 50, look it up.
(Good name, Forbin, a favorite film of mine.) My WW2 era mother always to criticize and poke fun at all the "The girl" remarks on TV!
On ST, it seems every time anyone's in love, it's criticized as sappy. I think they handled it better than on other shows. Scotty cares, and shows it. Good for him.
Eight because it's quite scary as well! Annoying how Federation technology on the whole is redundant against the Zetarian life forms too!
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Memorable for me as the last episode I hadn't seen and for how long I tried to catch the re-run. I also knew Jan Shutan from an Andy Griffith Show episode and liked her. I read an interview with her somewhere a long time ago that she thought her legs were too chubby for the costume.
I like the viewscreen graphic and some of the Memory Alpha stuff, and the ghost story/possession parts are pretty effective. So with all that, and even though it's not bad for the season, overall it's only average, a 5.
I like the viewscreen graphic and some of the Memory Alpha stuff, and the ghost story/possession parts are pretty effective. So with all that, and even though it's not bad for the season, overall it's only average, a 5.
I say it deserves an 8. The visual and sound effects for the episode are incredibly creepy, and the bodies scattered about Memory Alpha really highlighted the horror and danger .
But the thing that sold me on the episode was the melancholy score with Kirk's voiceover at the beginning of the episode:
But the thing that sold me on the episode was the melancholy score with Kirk's voiceover at the beginning of the episode:
The original special effect sold it.
I'd have to disagree with her. Even when I was a kid (before I was a leg man) I thought she had nice gams.
I gave the episode a 6.
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