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
Whom Gods Destroy (the title is taken from a phrase mistakenly attributed to Euripides which goes: “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad“) is a nice episode but it shows how the original ideas were becoming more and more rare in the third season of Star Trek. The episode is in … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E14, Whom Gods Destroy
A diplomatic mission. An invisible ship that follows the USS Enterprise. A traitor on board. Sounds like the Journey to Babel storyline from season two, doesn’t it? Well, it does, but it’s also the rough outline of Elaan of Troyius, the thirteenth episode of the third season whose second half we’re now officially in (I … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E13, Elaan of Troyius
Repo Man is a cult movie mixing the most diverse genres: science fiction, action, fantasy, thriller, dramatic, comedy… If you ask me to define it with a single adjective, I would use “punk”. This film doesn’t give a s**t about anyone or anything and brings home a great result, even if at the time (1984) … More Repo Man: Movie Review
Plato’s Stepchildren is a historical episode for American television because it contains the first kiss between an African American person and a Caucasian one, in this case Uhura and Kirk. They kiss each other because they find themselves under the evil influence of the antagonist of the episode, but it’s still a kiss that had … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E10, Plato’s Stepchildren
The eighth episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Original Series has a truly poetic title: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. And not only that! It’s based on a couple of ideas that maybe weren’t completely new in 1968, when the episode aired, but they hadn’t been … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E08, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Day of the Dove couldn’t have been more explicit in his condemnation of war, violence, and torture. The episodes sends this pacifist message totally in line with the ideals of Gene Roddenberry with a story with Klingons, now undoubtedly the most present antagonists of Kirk and the whole Federation (see Errand of Mercy, Friday’s Child, … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E07, Day of the Dove
It’s not easy to write about the fifth episode of the third season Is There in Truth No Beauty?. Diana Muldaur returns to Star Trek here, this time as a blind person with psychic powers, after her appearance in Return to Tomorrow the previous season. I give this episode a pass just because of here presence: … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E05, Is There in Truth No Beauty?
