{"id":10942,"date":"2020-05-12T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:21:24","slug":"star-trek-the-original-series-complete-series-review-season-2-episode-3-the-changeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/12\/star-trek-the-original-series-complete-series-review-season-2-episode-3-the-changeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek \u2013 The Original Series \u2013 Complete Series Review \u2013 Season 2 Episode 3 \u2013 The Changeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Enterprise is responding to a signal from the Malurian system.\u00a0 But upon scanning the solar system they find that all of the four billion people there are dead.\u00a0 They are attacked by an incredibly potent enemy that drains the ship\u2019s deflector shield in a few blasts.\u00a0 Kirk attempts to reason with the unseen enemy.\u00a0 He names himself James Kirk in his address and the enemy seems to break off the attack at this mention.\u00a0 We find out that a small three-foot-long robotic device that calls itself Nomad is the attacker.\u00a0 It agrees to break off the attack and come aboard the ship.\u00a0 We learn that Nomad was an Earth probe from the 21st<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Nomad has mistaken James Kirk for its creator, Dr. Jackson Roykirk.\u00a0 We eventually learn that the original Nomad was a probe designed and programmed to seek out interstellar life.\u00a0 It was damaged and somehow merged with an alien probe called Tan Ru that was also damaged.\u00a0 Tan Ru was enormously powerful and had as its mission to sterilize soil samples for planetary colony evaluation.\u00a0 Once the two probes were integrated, their new mission was to seek out biological life and if it was imperfect, which it always was, to sterilize it.\u00a0 This explained what had happened to the Malurian system.<\/p>\n

Nomad starts exploring the Enterprise with unsurprisingly dire results.\u00a0 He hears Lt Uhura singing and he analyzes her mind and finds it irrational so he erases her memory.\u00a0 When Scotty attempts to come to her aid Nomad strikes him with an energy bolt that kills the engineer.\u00a0 When Kirk complains that Nomad has destroyed on of the creator\u2019s \u201cunits\u201d Nomad agrees to repair the dead human.\u00a0 And he does, much to the amazement of Dr. McCoy.\u00a0 Kirk attempts to immobilize Nomad in a containment cell but Nomad leaves and when his two guards attempt to stop him, he disintegrates them.\u00a0 Nomad repeats this action once again in another scene.<\/p>\n

Kirk becomes exasperated with Nomad\u2019s casual destruction of biological units and tells Nomad that Kirk himself is a biological unit.\u00a0 This is a big mistake.\u00a0 Nomad decides that he should sterilize the Enterprise and then head back to the point of origin, Earth, to decide how to eliminate imperfection there too.\u00a0 Kirk hits on a plan and tells his men to stand by with anti-grav units to transport Nomad when Kirk gives his command.<\/p>\n

Kirk tells Nomad that he is not the creator.\u00a0 That he has mistaken James Kirk for Jackson Roykirk.\u00a0 And since that is an error, Nomad is himself imperfect.\u00a0 And since all imperfection must be sterilized Nomad must sterilize himself.\u00a0 As Nomad\u2019s processor attempts to reconcile this fact.\u00a0 Kirk has his crew use the anti-grav units to carry Nomad to the transporter and right before he gives to signal to beam Nomad off the ship, he says to Nomad, sterilize the imperfection.\u00a0 Kirk watches through a view screen as an intense flash signals that Nomad has sterilized himself right out of existence.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Spock bemoans the loss of such an amazing creation Kirk observes that the machine thought Kirk was its mother.\u00a0 He adds, “You saw what it did for Scott. \u00a0What a doctor it would have made. \u00a0My son, the doctor. \u00a0Kind of gets you right here, doesn’t it?”<\/p>\n

I really like this episode.\u00a0 The plot is a well thought up science fiction story that provides the Enterprise crew with something different from the usual human dramas that typically develop.\u00a0 The plot device of Kirk outsmarting a machine is one that is repeated several times in the series but in this episode, it is used to good effect and the humorous ending is especially well done.\u00a0 There is no Shatner mockery points to be found in this episode so I\u2019ll give this a\u00a0 9 \/\/ 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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