First Impressions of Catspaw

[royalfan5]

1:I love the fog and rocks.
2: I feel as if this is an episode when I should be doing shrooms or something.
3: Everybody's picking on Pavel.
4: Shatner's hair does a great job of looking concerned.
5: You just can't trust bald guys with cats.
6:You can always count on Kirk to close the deal.
7: Those were great cat sound effects and shadowing.
8: Pretty weak fight
9:Overall the episode left me kind of meh, but I am in a kind of meh mood today.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

This is probably the only TOS episode that I can completely write off. What bugs me about it is that it could have been a really cool episode but the story and the villains just weren't developed...at all!

Who were Sylvia and Korob really? What were their intentions? Why did they brainwash Sulu and Scotty and why did they kill Jackson?

The whole deal about them tapping into humans' subconscious fears of all things related to Halloween is just silly because most people no longer find those things scary once they have reached the age of oh...11 or 12.

I just didn't get that episode. Am I missing something here? I really want to like this episode on some level, I just can't find it.

 

[Rulius]

It's only redeeming feature is that it isn't as horrible as "The Alternative Factor".

 

[T'Girl]

Jackson's fall off of the transporter platform has got to be one of the greatest stunt acts of all the Star Trek productions.

 

[BlobVanDam]

I just saw this the other day for the first time. It was bad but amusing, in the same way any of the worse TOS episodes was. The giant cat was just funny, especially when it was just the shadow.
And it had the typical TOS cliche of aliens who just happen to have created a human old Earth environment, and happen to have taken human form and be subject to human weaknesses, leaving Kirk to Kirk it up with some alien female. Same old same old.

Which is why it still had redeeming entertainment value, despite being a lesser episode.

 

[Trimm]

Kirk's closing remark about it not being an illusion is pretty much the only redeemable part of the whole affair.

 

[Kinggodzillak]

Jackson's fall off of the transporter platform has got to be one of the greatest stunt acts of all the Star Trek productions.

The guy somehow manages to bounce off his own face, it's classic...

 

[cblmc1296]

Jackson's fall off of the transporter platform has got to be one of the greatest stunt acts of all the Star Trek productions.

The guy somehow manages to bounce off his own face, it's classic...

I am fairly sure Jackson was portrayed by Jay Jones (Jimmy Doohan's stunt double for Scotty). He always got to do all the really weird flips and falls. The Changeling and Who Mourns for Adaonais come to mind.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's worth remembering that this ep originally aired in October as, quite deliberately, the Halloween episode. It's supposed to be a bit of spooky fun with cobwebs, skeletons, witches, dungeons, black cats, and all the usual horror-movie trappings. It's not meant to be taken all that seriously. What Sylvia and Korob are and why they're here doesn't really matter. They're just an excuse to put Kirk and Spock in a Gothic horror setting--kind of like the "vampire" episode of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.

As a lifelong horror buff, I always loved this episode as a kid. And one of these days, if Pocket Books lets me, I really want to write a sequel!

One of the great things about TOS was the way it mixed things up by telling all different sorts of stories. Depending on what week it was, you could get a war story, a courtroom drama, a morality play, a love story, a light-hearted comic romp, a submarine thriller, or, in this case, a bit of spooky Halloween fun.

Trick or treat!

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

Jackson's fall off of the transporter platform has got to be one of the greatest stunt acts of all the Star Trek productions.

The guy somehow manages to bounce off his own face, it's classic...

That is a great moment!