This episode has some good music but I am not sure I completely understand this one. I have seen the episode 2 other times and I am watching it for the third time. Can someone explain this one for me? Thanks..
In truth is there no beauty?
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I think this is a great episode, especially for a third season bottle show. It has a strong guest cast, decent sci-fi content (bordering on the eerie, like "The Lights of Zetar"), some action scenes for the cast, action for the Enterprise itself, a great scene for Nimoy to portray a second character, and on top of that it has its own original music. There's definitely enough on the plate to satisfy.
I liked how it takes about 5 guys to take Crazy Spock to the floor, just to remind us of his superior strength. Or maybe I'm thinking of Operation Annihilate.
Imagine all the "game changer" TOS episodes having a lasting effect on the series: Medusan-symbiote navigators as demonstrated in "Truth", the restorative effects of the spores in "This Side of Paradise", perhaps if the Kelvans became part of the Federation and maybe sharing their intergalactic engine improvements...
In fairness*, this was the last season of TOS. The spores were only a couple of years before. At this time, we are perfectly free to imagine that all these sots of things would eventually have had lasting impacts on the universe. That was, after all, the promise, so to speak, that "Beauty?" offered. It's only when you fast-forward to the films and TNG when the incongruity in continuity, such as it is, really starts to become apparent.
* - I often hate that phrase, but here it applies.
Lots of strange choices made...
Miranda is sitting at a table with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty and MARVICK and says "someone in this room is thinking of murder."
Hmm...???
They couldn't have had a few non-speaking extras beam aboard with Marvick and be in the room when she makes that statement so the audience could have some choices.
Marvick wants to kill Kollos so he can have a woman that clearly has no interest in romance--ah--- HE'S ALREADY CRAZY!
And why did they insist on pretending kollos was so UGLY he drove people insane. that's bizarre and non-sensical.
Why not say that the intense and psychedelic light that his race puts outs damages humans brains.
Oh wait, then they couldn't use the title they did and the episode story should always serve the title not the other way around.
other parts of the episode are pretty well done.
And farewell mr Leslie--glad you recovered from the vampire cloud and retired from Starfleet before you really did die!
Miranda is sitting at a table with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty and MARVICK and says "someone in this room is thinking of murder."
Hmm...???
They couldn't have had a few non-speaking extras beam aboard with Marvick and be in the room when she makes that statement so the audience could have some choices.
Marvick wants to kill Kollos so he can have a woman that clearly has no interest in romance--ah--- HE'S ALREADY CRAZY!
And why did they insist on pretending kollos was so UGLY he drove people insane. that's bizarre and non-sensical.
Why not say that the intense and psychedelic light that his race puts outs damages humans brains.
Oh wait, then they couldn't use the title they did and the episode story should always serve the title not the other way around.
other parts of the episode are pretty well done.
And farewell mr Leslie--glad you recovered from the vampire cloud and retired from Starfleet before you really did die!
The lesson of the story is in its title, and spoken of many times during the episode. Kolos is said to be so ugly he drives humans insane. But it's shown that he is a kind soul. Miranda asks if he is truly too ugly to look upon, or too beautiful? Which is the truth?
Miranda is a stunning woman, but shows herself to have petty, ugly feelings. Kirk calls her on it, and threatens to show her her own ugliness. This changes her, and she decides to help Spock. Is she beautiful or ugly? Which is the truth?
Spock points out at the end that nothing is ugly, and all of our differences can combine in harmony to create a kind of beauty. This is his truth.
I think the point is that you can find the beauty in anything, if you find its fundamental truth.
To me, this episode shows us one of the core values of the 1960s youth movement - everything is beautiful, man. Everyone is beautiful. Just look for their true soul.
Dropping acid helps.
Miranda is a stunning woman, but shows herself to have petty, ugly feelings. Kirk calls her on it, and threatens to show her her own ugliness. This changes her, and she decides to help Spock. Is she beautiful or ugly? Which is the truth?
Spock points out at the end that nothing is ugly, and all of our differences can combine in harmony to create a kind of beauty. This is his truth.
I think the point is that you can find the beauty in anything, if you find its fundamental truth.
To me, this episode shows us one of the core values of the 1960s youth movement - everything is beautiful, man. Everyone is beautiful. Just look for their true soul.
Dropping acid helps.
This is my go-to explanation for the Refit-E being so different than the TOS-E.
The price for building that robot ship, dontcha know.
No, he's a stalker of someone who has no interest in him.
He's not a husband or a boyfriend who is being sidelined by a new rival and decides to make a immoral decision to eliminate the rival.
It would have at least made a bit of sense had he stated that he and Miranda were in a relationship until she got the opportunity to link with Kollos.
Also his "attempted murder" was bizarre and nuts to begin with.
He enters the room without the red visor and then stands like a moron until Kollos opens the box and disables him.
It could have been staged much better--- have him enter with the visor and then as he goes to fire, Kollos opens the lid and, as had been stated, the visor doesn't provide enough protection, and he is blinded by the light as it were.
Then at least it would have been a decent attempt to actually kill him and not the actions of a already addled mind.
Also his plan to kill Kollos on the Enterprise was idiotic to begin with--had he phasered Kollos to oblivion--how long till he was found to be the culprit? 10 minutes?
He was already disturbed.
It seems more likely that he wanted to martyr himself. Purposely expose himself to Kollos and go insane and then she would see hom much he actually loved her.
Which, also, is insane.
To be clear, the actual title is "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
But I find that title gets scrambled a lot.
Yes, that sort of goes with the crazy part.
I think someone said something like: "A crazy man got us out there, only a crazy man can get us back."
I thought that remark was funny.
Not when the budget was reduced every season while the cost of everything was going up. Even 2 no-dialogue extras probably were a few hundred dollars, and that's just their salary. There would also be associated wardrobe and makeup costs, so it's more than just the actors' union mandated salaries. And then the effects costs to beam aboard two more guys. We rarely saw unnecessary characters in the corridors the third year. It was a constant battle for directors, who always wanted extras so that sets wouldn't look empty.
You are right, but there WERE some extras in that episode--so the idea is to use them to maximum effect. using the limited "extras budget" to put them in the room when Miranda makes her statement is better than a few extras on the bridge or corridors.
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