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Plato's Stepchildren is the bottom of my list. The worst part of that ep was the manipulation scene with Spock dancing around Kirk while he is on the floor and then Alexander riding Kirk like he is a horse. I think it is SO uncomfortable. I wonder how the actors felt? No dignity in those scenes.
Well, that's kind of the point. The problem is that, like many third-season episodes, "Plato's Stepchildren" feels like a half-hour script padded out to an hour. We get scene after scene after scene of our heroes forced into humiliating performances, to the point where we want to say, "Okay, enough already. We get it!"
(Never mind that I can imitate a horse better than Shatner can.)
Plato's Stepchildren is the bottom of my list. The worst part of that ep was the manipulation scene with Spock dancing around Kirk while he is on the floor and then Alexander riding Kirk like he is a horse. I think it is SO uncomfortable. I wonder how the actors felt? No dignity in those scenes.
In that scene they were being tortured, being forced to do something they didn't want to do. The next scene with Spock breaking the vase shows how traumatised he was with the whole thing - nearly killing Kirk, looking like a fool. They were supposed to lose their dignity.
I think Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Alexander all came out looking good after this episode with their dignity and honour intact.
And it was only one scene. Not like "That Which Survives" which had Spock being a jerk in ever scene. Just stop it Spock.
Anyway over my rant. I don't think I'm changing anyone's minds here
Plato's Stepchildren is the bottom of my list. The worst part of that ep was the manipulation scene with Spock dancing around Kirk while he is on the floor and then Alexander riding Kirk like he is a horse. I think it is SO uncomfortable. I wonder how the actors felt? No dignity in those scenes.
Memory Alpha. Feels almost weird to think of it as an unknown random destination, rather than one of the most well known phrases in the fandom. I love the idea of a library planet, though.
Sulu's opinion of lovesick Scotty isn't very charitable. And it doesn't seem to be based on anything, either, judging by his interactions with her.
Lt. Romaine is very suitably creepy in her response to the lights. Strong performance, right off the bat.
Interesting that Memory Alpha's crew is so heavily diverse while Starfleet is consistantly dominated by Humans.
That gargling sound effect is really disturbing.
Scotty's impression of space's effect on people seems... rather pessimistic for the advanced state of the Federation.
So how is it atmospheric pressure can kill energy beings in a person's mind?
Spock, McCoy and Scotty all agree and Kirk is frightened
This was an extremely simple story - really just about Lt. Romaine's struggle to remain herself. It was also not exactly original in the context of the franchise, with the idea of dead aliens wanting to steal a live body (though it is interesting the Zetars apparently survived by sheer force of will alone). But I think it was very well written and well paced. I would say Romaine is probably my second favorite guest character so far, and the actress did a wonderful job. I like how, even though the plot centers on her supposedly 'high pliability', her character arc is all about her fighting back and not giving in (and there was also a nice element there of Kirk really showing his leadership skills to inspire her to resist). I really enjoy the relationship with her and Scotty - he is definitely overly protective, and for a bit there kind of controlling/paternalistic - but he comes to realize he was wrong, and she really does push herself to take control on her own rather than relying on others. And all of this happens without jeopardizing the happiness the two of them clearly bring each other or their ability to do their job (well, Scotty is a bit distracted, but he still does his job). And I like that Federation optimism of recovering her sense of normalcy by allowing her to complete her work instead of sending her back to 'safety'.
Overall I really enjoyed this one. The only thing that would keep me from giving it the highest rating is the fact that the ending is just too easy considering how unstoppable the Zetars were prior to the pressure chamber scene.
A lot of people down-rate "The Lights of Zetar," but I like it. The stars shouldn't keep referring to an adult as The Girl, but apart from that it's fine. Jan Shutan is great, and as Halloween/scary episodes go, I like Zetar a lot better than "Catspaw" or "Wolf in the Fold."
I like the way it's lit and photographed so dramatically. In that regard, it's my favorite of the Al Francis episodes. And this ep re-uses of the memorable score from WNMHGB, which adds to its cool atmosphere.
Yeah, another LOZ fan here. It's legit scary. The outcome is a bit too quick, but Memory Alpha and the focus on Scotty make this fun. Jan Shutan was excellent, too.
Honestly, watching it it never even occurred to me that it was meant as a 'halloween' episode. I wouldn't compare this one with Catspaw in a million years.
But I suspect they'll keep her under close medical observation for the next little while in case there are any side effects. Memory Alpha must have regular visits by ships dropping off items and files to be archived, so it wouldn't be too hard to send a doctor from Starfleet Medical on the next one. Hopefully a specialist in alien intrusions, if there is one?
So, no one ever noticed Da Vinci and Brahms have the exact same handwriting? Or does he change handwriting based on whether he's painting or writing music?
What is an android that's biologically human? Shouldn't that just be a clone?
'You can't love an android. She's mine.' Logic is a tweeting bird...
So Flint's immortality is over. Does the Enterprise still keep his secret anyway? Is that why Janeway never knew Da Vinci was actually an immortal?
For about the first half of this one, I was pretty convinced this was going to be another of the absolute classic, amazing episodes that I had completely forgotten existed (if I ever even saw it in the first place, which I'm honestly not even sure of). Sadly, it dipped rather significantly in the second half, so I can't say it's in the same league as Naked Time, Corbomite Maneuver, This Side of Paradise, etc, but it was a very enjoyable episode overall. The planet looked very nice, both the guest actors were excellent. I love the build-up to figuring out that Flint is Methuselah (everything seems so obvious on the one hand, yet I really wonder if I would have figured it out had the episode title not already given it away).
Flint is a fascinating character, with not just the pain and the wealth of thousands of years, but also the wisdom and the mercy of it. His view on the Federation is very interesting - advanced, improved, but perhaps not as enlightened as they believe themselves. Then again, the same is unquestionably true of Flint himself. After centuries of loneliness, his desires drove him back towards his ancient self - using bystanders for his benefit and locking them up, willing to fight a man to death for a woman's hand.
The main thing I really didn't like was Kirk 'Falling in love' (and a seriously desperate case at that) in literally a matter of hours. That she could become attached to him makes sense - she's lived in extreme isolation, after all. But the entire second half would've played much more interestingly, imo, if Kirk, while perhaps feeling something for her, still was motivated primarily by concern for an innocent person being taken advantage of rather than 'I can't love her, but I do!'
I love the build-up to figuring out that Flint is Methuselah (everything seems so obvious on the one hand, yet I really wonder if I would have figured it out had the episode title not already given it away).
It doesn't have to be...could have been a metaphor only, if they wanted it to be.
Now I'm curious...are there any Trek episode titles that use a name as a metaphor, not the actual character? Apollo was Adonais, Flint was Methuselah (supposedly)
It doesn't have to be...could have been a metaphor only, if they wanted it to be.
Now I'm curious...are there any Trek episode titles that use a name as a metaphor, not the actual character? Apollo was Adonais, Flint was Methuselah (supposedly)
'Charges of entering hostile space' - interesting that that's a crime.
So did the writers have it in for someone named Herbert?
The songs actually aren't terrible, other than the instrument being an empty stick and the troubadour character being played by a creepy, slimy version of Josh Lyman.
But why is the music being piped to every corner of the ship?
Did that purple haired guy just use a vulcan neck pinch?
Kirk just blurts out his orders to undermine Sevrin while the comm channel is still open...
And Kirk, Spock and Scotty go after the whole group with no security backup at all.
So if Adam ate the poison fruit, does that make Dr. Sevrin Eve?
So... Yeah, that wasn't great. It wasn't the absolute worst episode - there were some potentially interesting concepts buried in there and Dr. Sevrin was kind of intriguing, though not truly fleshed out. But at the end of the day, all of the other hippies were terrible, their dialogue was practically painful to listen to, their ideology made no sense and the whole myth of Eden was so utterly vague that it might as well have been left out entirely (really, if they're all about 'back to basic', why do they even need some specific Eden planet? Any M class planet should be acceptable). It also seemed strange to drag up the spectre of violating Romulan space when the writers had no intention of ever actually involving the Romulans. And a planet full of super acidic plant life (including poison fruit, even though Spock said there were no animals?) that instantly gives you serious burns, but won't affect you through super-thin clothing is kind of reaching, as well.
But, hey, Chekov actually had some decent character development. That's something, I guess.
In "Return to Eden", Chekov's ex-girlfriend and the Ambassador's son both knew that Severin set the sonic thingmegig to kill and Chekov and everyone else on the Enterprise was cool about setting them free, sorry for them when they got burnt on the planet.
I think Kirk is too merciful, letting these guys off scott free. And Lenore, Dr Coleman and of course Khan
In "Return to Eden", Chekov's ex-girlfriend and the Ambassador's son both knew that Severin set the sonic thingmegig to kill and Chekov and everyone else on the Enterprise was cool about setting them free, sorry for them when they got burnt on the planet.
I think Kirk is too merciful, letting these guys off scott free. And Lenore, Dr Coleman and of course Khan
The Kelvans, too. I wanted Rojan tried for the brutal murder of Yeoman Thompson. I wonder what her parents thought of Starfleet's "hey, give them a planet" solution.
Don't worry, I'm not going to drag up those warp speed vs distance discussions again
I just wanted to say thanks for adding the notion of a planet with an incredibly dense core to the discussion. However, didn't they establish that the planetoid was artificial in construction? Given Trek propensity to assign "unnatural" properties to artificially constructed materials, couldn't this account for the unlikely density?
I think it was the size of our moon and as massive as the earth. 5.972 x 10^27 g in 21.9 x 10^24 cc would be about 227 g/cc. Osmium (the densest known real element) is 22.59 g/cc, so even here they're talking about something 10 times denser than the densest known element. I don't think so, even in Trek's expanded list of elements. One could use artificial gravity to account for those numbers, since this isn't too far out yet, relatively speaking, but why? You wouldn't need to approximate the mass of the whole earth just to get 1 g at the surface, just like the Enterprise doesn't need to appear to be as massive as the earth to have earth normal gravity of 1 g in most places (though it's frequently down to .8 g)
One way to pack that much matter into such a small space is high pressure, like in a collapsed star, such as a white dwarf or neutron star or black hole (it essentially packs the electrons into the nuclei so all the space (taken up by the electron cloud) is gone and you just have tightly packed neutrons cheek to cheek, for example.
To the get the exact numbers you want, you can use a micro black hole, which can have any mass in a singularity, and put a force field around it and round out the rest of the planet with more "normal" materials, though as I recall, that red rock under the dirt was far from normal.
The Kelvans, too. I wanted Rojan tried for the brutal murder of Yeoman Thompson. I wonder what her parents thought of Starfleet's "hey, give them a planet" solution.
Yes that's true! How many times has Kirk's people been killed or sacrificed in the series for him to just see 'the bigger picture' and allow the murderers to settle on a nice planet!
JB
Memory Alpha. Feels almost weird to think of it as an unknown random destination, rather than one of the most well known phrases in the fandom. I love the idea of a library planet, though.
Sulu's opinion of lovesick Scotty isn't very charitable. And it doesn't seem to be based on anything, either, judging by his interactions with her.
Lt. Romaine is very suitably creepy in her response to the lights. Strong performance, right off the bat.
Interesting that Memory Alpha's crew is so heavily diverse while Starfleet is consistently dominated by Humans.
That gargling sound effect is really disturbing.
Scotty's impression of space's effect on people seems... rather pessimistic for the advanced state of the Federation.
So how is it atmospheric pressure can kill energy beings in a person's mind?
Spock, McCoy and Scotty all agree and Kirk is frightened
This was an extremely simple story - really just about Lt. Romaine's struggle to remain herself. It was also not exactly original in the context of the franchise, with the idea of dead aliens wanting to steal a live body (though it is interesting the Zetars apparently survived by sheer force of will alone). But I think it was very well written and well paced. I would say Romaine is probably my second favorite guest character so far, and the actress did a wonderful job. I like how, even though the plot centers on her supposedly 'high pliability', her character arc is all about her fighting back and not giving in (and there was also a nice element there of Kirk really showing his leadership skills to inspire her to resist). I really enjoy the relationship with her and Scotty - he is definitely overly protective, and for a bit there kind of controlling/paternalistic - but he comes to realize he was wrong, and she really does push herself to take control on her own rather than relying on others. And all of this happens without jeopardizing the happiness the two of them clearly bring each other or their ability to do their job (well, Scotty is a bit distracted, but he still does his job). And I like that Federation optimism of recovering her sense of normalcy by allowing her to complete her work instead of sending her back to 'safety'.
Overall I really enjoyed this one. The only thing that would keep me from giving it the highest rating is the fact that the ending is just too easy considering how unstoppable the Zetars were prior to the pressure chamber scene.
Seems I rated this episode a 5 out of 10 before. Despite the special effects being improved, I'm not sure this episode warrants that rating. Perhaps a 4 out of 10 would be more appropriate?
I'm not impressed with the story - not really - nor the acting of the guest star - passable, I suppose, but not good or great IMO. In a way, this is a slow paced episode where they spend a great deal of time sitting around trying to figure out what they're up against. It's a bit of a drag. Later, there's the unimpressive series of evasive maneuvers - which went on too long for no results. Realistic, perhaps, but boring. I can't honestly say I've ever said, "Oh, great, that episode," and happily settled down to enjoy it.
Memory Alpha is attacked and damaged. Spock worries the loss may be irreplaceable. I would guess most anything there was backed up repeatedly elsewhere, being just electronic files from multiple sources scattered far and wide. It might take some time to replace or repair the equipment, and be a bother to get many planets to retransmit their data, but I seriously doubt anything would have been permanently lost - like during the burning of the Library of Alexandria. The loss of life, of course, was unfortunate, but even that didn't seem too massive.
I generally dislike the romantic attentions of Mr. Scott for the young Lt. Romaine - it seemed to come out of nowhere and disappeared as quickly, never to hear about it again - perhaps this can't be helped for a minor character in an episodic format. She seemed pretty combative and uncooperative, too, but that might have been intentional. I guess she was mostly scared they'd disallow her to continue her life's work, so naturally she was a little angry about that and secretive with anything that might lend support for that conclusion. Kirk's annoyance at Scotty's attentions toward her was pretty good, though, as Scotty almost seemed to shirk his duties just to be close to her. I wonder if Scotty knew her father - a former Starfleet chief engineer - and had a thing for his friend's daughter for a while, and now that she's older . . . Or maybe she just shows affection for Scotty, perhaps having some daddy issues, and Scott returns her affections. But, they don't really say. It's just there - full blown love. Again.
Spock claimed there were 10 life entities in the lights of Zetar, though they claimed to be the last 100 of their race from Zetar. Don't know if the difference of 90 should be significant, but they never question it. Again, they already knew of Zetar and its name, despite it being destroyed a thousand years ago. Maybe they found it in some alien memory bank or database.
Romaine sees past events - things the Zetarians have already done before - yet they claim they are "future" events. I don't know why. Though she also claimed to see Scotty dying - but that never happened, so I'm not sure what she was seeing. Perhaps the intentions of the Zetarians, but what would they have against Mr. Scott that they were planning on killing him? Despite killing everyone on Memory Alpha, the Zetarians claimed they had no wish to kill and said they did not, in fact, kill those people - they apparently died resisting them, so it was their own fault, I guess. Then the Zetarians threatened to kill everyone anyway. I fail to understand how they could believe their own inconsistent bullcrap, but maybe most Zetarians are natural born hypocrites and liars.
Now Kirk seems to suddenly know putting extra pressure on the Lt. in a pressure chamber will provide the necessary environment to kill the Zetarians. How? Sure, they are uncertain if it will kill Mira Romaine as well, but what clue led them to believe great pressure would be harmful to the Zetarians? None, that I can recall. After they had put her in and reduced gravity (don't ask why - maybe a floating girl is supposed to be impressively cool and sci-fi like) they may have deduced since the decrease in gravity strengthened the Zetarians, maybe increasing gravity, or increasing pressure (not the same thing, of course) may have been an effective weapon. But this all came after Kirk decided to use the pressure chamber. Maybe, I hope, that chamber could create countless other environments and they just got lucky with the first attempt and first thing they tried, using increased pressure.
The fact that Spock, McCoy, and Scotty all were in agreement afterwards about Lt. Romaine's return to duty wasn't as funny as Kirk thought it was, but YMMV. His did.
I guess I also disliked the idea of 100 people not dying just because they REALLY didn't want to. But maybe it was just badly explained - they could have been on a verge of an evolutionary change or something already toward the incorporeal.
Missed it be that much!
I generally don't note such minor things, but some stock footage is used when they are wearing 1st or 2nd season uniforms. On an unrelated matter, for some reason, Scotty's red shirt emblem contains a science planet (often on blue shirts) and not his normal spiral screw/nut engineering symbol. Perhaps they would bother to change symbols when one was planning on being a prolonged liaison with a different department rather than working their regular duties, but that seems a bit daft, so it was probably just some mistake by wardrobe. The only reason I suggest it is the speed with which replicators might make new uniforms - rather than washing them - so even for a day, such a change might be made. I'm not sure what advantage that would give anyone, but I'm sure there are lots of things they do for reasons that escape me - particularly ones of tradition or regulations.
I found this image, but I don't recall ever seeing the medical emblem used - just the science one on the medical staff.
The Beauty of the day is Jan Shutan playing Lt Mira Romaine.
FX special effects reel. Don't seem to have a side-by-side.
So, yeah, 4 out of 10. Watch it - once - but after that, well, you've seen it. But I'd agree, it does have a certain creep factor, possibly suitable for Halloween.
I don't know why, but of all the previews they showed for the original airings of this series, I most clearly remember the preview for this episode - particularly as Kirk and Scotty march Lt. Romaine through the ship's corridors with Spock and McCoy right behind them and Sulu's voice coming from the intercoms signaling the Red Alert/Intruder Alert/General Quarters/Security Alert 3, etc., just before other crewmen scattered and ran away as the Zetarian lights flooded the ship.
Maybe the reason is simply because (and I'm not sure about this) they didn't show previews all the time - maybe hardly ever - but they showed that one, and I sure recall it quite clearly. But I have no actual data on the broadcasting practices employed for TOS when they first aired, and I would have been only 6 or 7, or by the time this one aired, 8 years old.
Yes that's true! How many times has Kirk's people been killed or sacrificed in the series for him to just see 'the bigger picture' and allow the murderers to settle on a nice planet!
JB
My guess is Kirk is diplomatic about it and doesn't give her parents the grizzly details, instead opting to say she died in the performance of her duty or some such. The natural inclination to get revenge, history has shown, often leads to many, many more deaths and a vicious cycle of endless killing. Her life was not lost in vain since it promoted intergalactic peace.
As for the other instances mentioned when Kirk is too merciful, I'd just say he has better things to do than seek vengeance, and he plays the game of life on a much grander scale to get bogged down on those relatively trivial matters. Besides, when compared to what many aliens do where he doesn't have the authority to exact payback, it's just another in a long line of little things. I'm glad Kirk is that merciful. I think it's the right call, more often than not.
So, no one ever noticed Da Vinci and Brahms have the exact same handwriting? Or does he change handwriting based on whether he's painting or writing music?
What is an android that's biologically human? Shouldn't that just be a clone?
'You can't love an android. She's mine.' Logic is a tweeting bird...
So Flint's immortality is over. Does the Enterprise still keep his secret anyway? Is that why Janeway never knew Da Vinci was actually an immortal?
For about the first half of this one, I was pretty convinced this was going to be another of the absolute classic, amazing episodes that I had completely forgotten existed (if I ever even saw it in the first place, which I'm honestly not even sure of). Sadly, it dipped rather significantly in the second half, so I can't say it's in the same league as Naked Time, Corbomite Maneuver, This Side of Paradise, etc., but it was a very enjoyable episode overall. The planet looked very nice, both the guest actors were excellent. I love the build-up to figuring out that Flint is Methuselah (everything seems so obvious on the one hand, yet I really wonder if I would have figured it out had the episode title not already given it away).
Flint is a fascinating character, with not just the pain and the wealth of thousands of years, but also the wisdom and the mercy of it. His view on the Federation is very interesting - advanced, improved, but perhaps not as enlightened as they believe themselves. Then again, the same is unquestionably true of Flint himself. After centuries of loneliness, his desires drove him back towards his ancient self - using bystanders for his benefit and locking them up, willing to fight a man to death for a woman's hand.
The main thing I really didn't like was Kirk 'Falling in love' (and a seriously desperate case at that) in literally a matter of hours. That she could become attached to him makes sense - she's lived in extreme isolation, after all. But the entire second half would've played much more interestingly, imo, if Kirk, while perhaps feeling something for her, still was motivated primarily by concern for an innocent person being taken advantage of rather than 'I can't love her, but I do!'
A clone would be an exact genetic copy. She'd just be an android, or if part of her is built using human genetic material, a cyborg. And unlike Scotty, Kirk is more prone to get involved with a woman, though Love? Well, he is a pretty lonely guy, so when the "perfect woman" for him comes along . . .
Requiem For Methuselah
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I've always enjoyed this episode - though we've seen the idea a few times before (and who is to say Flint is the only human with this condition?), it is a great idea - a virtually immortal human who has been many of the greatest men of history.
The guy who wrote this, Jerome Bixby, also wrote The Man From Earth, a similar tale of an ancient human who has lived countless years with probably thousands of different identities. I've seen this 2007 movie and I think it's great - highly recommended. It's a much deeper treatment and stars many actors who have appeared in Star Trek series.
The Man From Earth
In Requiem, Flint implies he was Lazarus, the most famous of the three people Christ resurrected and the only one to have a name - and so his immortality might explain some of Christ's abilities - while in The Man from Earth, the idea is John Oldman (ha) was actually the inspiration for the Christ character himself - perhaps an even more controversial and upsetting notion to some.
We also have the idea explored in a Twilight Zone episode, Long Live Walter Jameson, and perhaps other tales that are similar.
Flint is obviously an impressive individual - not just a bully, but also an intellectual genius to stay that far ahead of "current" technology (and perhaps be largely responsible for much of the current technology).
I've no idea why they beam down so far away from the Ryetalyn, or why they decide to walk several kilometers to it rather than beam over to it. Flint is pretty inhospitable, but Kirk is hardly better. He often claims a higher moral ground, but I wasn't really seeing it this time. Give it to us or we'll kill you and come take it. Pretending Flint has the right to refuse when asking though you're prepared to kill and take what you want regardless is hardly a higher moral position. Anyway, I can see his point of view - I just wouldn't claim any innate superiority in morality while exercising it, though since Flint is from Earth and not some alien, Kirk probably has the authority.
Fortunately, Flint relents as he recalls, with empathy, the effects of plague.
We meet Rayna, an android - and Kirk is smitten. He obviously has a thing for beautiful women but he also likes intelligent women (little blonde lab techs, doctors, etc.) Kirk sleeps around, no doubt, but he doesn't fall in love that often. The very idea a machine could be human enough to make no difference is explored - a fascinating idea we'll visit again in the Trek to come. But here, clearly Spock has his doubts, and the general idea of TOS is they aren't human enough and never will be. TNG, I think, puts that attitude behind us and more clearly shows what's essential is not the biology or specific mechanism that supports it, but the personality, intellect, or soul itself, however it may be housed.
Sadly, Flint hasn't mastered the technology yet - nor had Data in TNG - though Noonian Soong would get a decent handle on it before his death. But here, in TOS, the complexity and awful contradictions of human emotions were too much of a strain on the OS, and she shut down - apparently unable to simply be rebooted (which is essential so one can't just mass produce such androids). Since Flint then leaned he was mortal, he probably gave up on that quest, not needing it anymore. I always liked to think he would have tried to go back to Earth - perhaps finding what was lost and becoming immortal again now that he was back in the complex fields that had created him. But we're never really told. Captain Janeway, however, seems to have been told Kirk met da Vinci once - so apparently Kirk either didn't keep his promise to remain silent, or he felt they never agreed to that or it didn't matter, now that he was mortal, or possibly dead before Kirk made that report years later - or maybe just the details of who and when and where needed to be kept secret, and were. Whateves.
Flint owns an impressive house/castle/whatever. I'm beginning to think with the right technology, and a sufficient amount of money or energy, one might be able to simply replicate sections of living structures and have robots or equipment put them together, or even 3D print such a structure with transporter and replicator technology. He can move ships as large as the Enterprise around pretty effortlessly, so why not? So such a large place for so few people is perhaps not all that unrealistic. He might have been able to build all that in just a few hours, for all we know, though it's clear he's been there for years.
My biggest nitpick is silly, though - I just felt a man like Flint, who had probably been a solider many times, would be a martial artist and have considerable skill and not be throwing silly, ineffective haymakers at Kirk, or even allow Kirk to land a decent blow. He actually seems pretty bad at fighting.
I also think Spock claimed Flint's works were originals made with ancient materials at one point, but then later said they were made with contemporary materials, too. He seemed a little too certain they were original works and not fakes - based on that.
And what a way to wrap up a one off romance! "Forget." It really works. One might think Spock went too far, but Kirk and McCoy also expressed an interest in him forgetting - so, the trio in agreement, everybody wins.
The Beauty of the day is Louise Sorel playing Rayna Kapec.
YMMV, but she is one of, if not the prettiest of Trek woman, IMO. I think most guys would be hard pressed not to include her in their top 5, or at least top 10 Trek beauties. For me, she's in my top two. Julie Cobb playing Yeoman Leslie Thompson is my other frontrunner, and since she was just mention in this thread, I put her here, too.
BTW, "Kapec" is a play on Capek, after Karel Čapek, the man who introduced the term "robot."
Side-by-Side Comparison Original vs Remastered.
I've given this episode a 7 out of 10. I've always enjoyed it, the idea is good, and, well, Rayna's gorgeous.
