The Enterprise heads for the colony on Deneva where a form of madness has broken out.\u00a0 They detect a Denevan space ship heading for the planet\u2019s sun and just as it burns up the ship\u2019s occupant declares that he is free.\u00a0 We learn that Captain Kirk\u2019s brother Sam and his wife and son are on Deneva.\u00a0 And when the landing party reaches Deneva they find that the inhabitants have gone crazy and that Kirk\u2019s brother is dead.\u00a0 Kirk\u2019s sister-in-law and nephew are beamed up in critical condition.\u00a0 Interestingly enough Deneva looks just like a 1960s college campus in California for some reason.\u00a0 Meanwhile the landing party discovers an amorphous parasite that infects the inhabitants by biting them on the back.\u00a0 One of them bites Spock and he becomes possessed by the creature. \u00a0Eventually Spock learns to overcome the pain and he helps Dr. McCoy find a cure for the infection.\u00a0 Finally, they figure out that the extremely strong light levels near a star is what destroys the parasite.\u00a0 To test it out they expose Spock to an extremely high light level and it works.\u00a0 The parasite is gone but Spock is made blind.\u00a0 But then McCoy realizes that ultraviolet light would have destroyed the parasite without blinding the host.\u00a0 With this knowledge the Enterprise is able to cure the population of Deneva.\u00a0 And it turns out that Spock\u2019s blindness is temporary because Vulcan anatomy includes an inner eyelid.<\/p>\n
Well, this is the last episode of the first season and comparing it to the rest of the season I\u2019d say it was just about an average story.\u00a0 The parasite plot is actually sort of a rip-off of Heinlein\u2019s \u201cThe Puppet Masters.\u201d\u00a0 Spock being infected and fighting off the effects is slightly interesting and the blinding was a nice little twist but honestly there isn\u2019t a lot here.\u00a0 And just to make sure there was a curse on the episode they dragged Nurse Chapel into the story to add her patented boredom to the mix.\u00a0 The best description for this one is meh.<\/p>\n
6 \/\/ 1\u00a0 That\u2019s the most I can give it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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