So here’s Voyager up and running! The first episode did a great job to set the story in motion, and so off to the first adventure, Parallax. Well, more than an actual adventure, this is an excuse to do some character development! Voyager runs into a space-time anomaly and tries to save a starship that … More Star Trek: Voyager – S01E03, Parallax
And here we are: this is the last episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, I can hardly believe it! My journey started in December 2018 and it’s ending now, after 78 episodes divided into three seasons. Now I know much better all those characters I was already familiar with thanks to the first seven … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E24, Turnabout Intruder
All Our Yesterdays (the title comes from a a dialogue in Shakespeare’s Macbeth) is the penultimate episode of the third and final season of Star Trek, and it’s undoubtedly one of the best episodes of the entire series. It’s based on an intriguing idea which is perfectly developed, it’s fast-paced, there are a lot of … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E23, All Our Yesterdays
Oh oh, here we go again. The Savage Curtain is another episode in which Kirk and Spock are forced to fight for their lives by ultra-powerful aliens. The only change in the formula is that the evil alien is not the first one we see, an Abraham Lincoln look-alike (Lee Bergere), but a kind of … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E22, The Savage Curtain
The Cloud Minders is truly explicit regarding the message it wants to convey. The episode deals with class struggle and social injustice in a setting that reminded me of many other books and films, from Metropolis (1927) to Elysium (2013) to mention just a couple. There’s yet another pandemic on a Federation planet and the Enterprise … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E21, The Cloud Minders
Okay, okay, I get it: Gene Roddenberry didn’t like hippies. And I knew that already thanks to the first season’s episode This Side of Paradise! However, The Way to Eden is even more explicit: none less than six characters seem to have come out of Hair (a movie which actually came out in 1979, ten … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E20, The Way to Eden
Requiem for Methuselah relies on a brilliant idea, but it seemed to me hastily executed, with little attention to detail. And that’s a real shame! Let’s start forom the plot. The Enterprise arrives at a planet in the Omega system and the situation on board is critical: the Rigelian fever is decimating the crew and … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E19, Requiem for Methuselah
The Lights of Zetar can be summarized in very few words: what remains of an ancient civilization takes possession of the body of a member of the Enterprise crew (Lieutenant Mira Romaine, interpreted by Jan Shutan), and Kirk has to put things in order. It had already happened in Return to Tomorrow, and it happens … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E18, The Lights of Zetar
There are three reasons that makes me moderately happy that I watched That Which Survives: the beautiful Lee Meriwether; Spock in command of the Enterprise questioning everyone on little and meaningless details; the beautiful Lee Meriwether. So let’s talk about Lee Meriwether. Here she is: Miss America in 1955, she also interpreted Catwoman in the … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E17, That Which Survives
The Mark of Gideon deals with an interesting theme, overpopulation, but unfortunately it’s very confusing and at the end doesn’t convey a serious message about it. It also suffers from pacing problems: the rhythm is really soporific here, and there are various inconsistencies that make the plot difficult to follow. So let’s talk about the … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E16, The Mark of Gideon
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