As I continue my way through Star Trek's third season, the budget cuts remain clearly obvious - this entire episode takes place on the ship bar model/CGI shots and it's clear that the set space available is now limited.
It's also clear that interesting concepts are not working in their execution. So, my thoughts:
- The music in this is a bit much - the dramatic stings should not be that noticeable in general.
- Everyone's behaviour towards Dr. Jones is frankly rather chauvinistic at best. Kirk confronting her in the med bay is just unpleasant to watch.
- Not sure how something being ugly can make someone homicidally mad. Especially as we never see the actual form of Ambassador Kollos.
- I see this is the original of the "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" mantra.
- The idea of a blind person having a sensor net is an interesting one, but you'd think the technology would be smaller than a cloak.
- Diana Muldaur, later twice nominated for an Emmy, makes her second TOS appearance here.
- The show was still working out its mechanics of how warp drives work.
- Nimoy gets to do something a bit different from his usual Spock acting, but then it all goes to pot when he goes crazy.
- Indeed, the other bit of going crazy acting isn't that good either.
- The fight scenes we get in this look particularly badly done, even for a show not known for its realistic hand-to-hand combat.
- Perhaps this was a lower-budget episode to save money for elsewhere?
Conclusion
Not a good episode, sadly, but it isn't awful. I hope something better comes along as we continue, but I'm not optimistic.
4/10
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