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Robert Bloch, the sf&f writer who also wrote Psycho wrote this episode. \u00a0This episode aired on October 27th<\/sup> 1967 and back then tv shows would have a holiday episode for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. \u00a0For the most part, these kinds of shows couldn\u2019t be accommodated on a science fiction series like Star Trek but for some reason they went out of their way to make this travesty.<\/p>\n

The Enterprise is exploring a lifeless world.\u00a0 Sulu, Scotty and a red shirt have fallen out of communication on the surface.\u00a0 The red shirt calls to be beamed up and when he appears on the Enterprise, he drops down dead.\u00a0 Now a \u201cspooky\u201d voice tells the Enterprise that the planet is cursed.\u00a0 Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down and find a silly Halloween set.\u00a0 There is a castle complete with skeleton filled dungeon, black cat, witches and fog.<\/p>\n

We meet a wizard, Korob and his familiar, a black cat who is also a \u201cbeautiful\u201d woman named Sylvia.\u00a0 They have captured Sulu and Scotty and zombified them.\u00a0 Eventually they zombify McCoy.\u00a0\u00a0 They can play tricks like taking a little model of the Enterprise and holding it over a candle to make the real ship start to overheat.\u00a0 We find out the aliens are creatures from another galaxy and of course they don\u2019t have emotions or other fun stuff so Sylvia makes a play for Kirk.\u00a0 Kirk pretends to like her but she figures out he\u2019s faking and gets angry.\u00a0 Now Korob frees them from the dungeon and nervously tells them that they must escape because Sylvia has gone nuts and will destroy them all including him.<\/p>\n

She turns into a giant black cat and hunts down and kills Korob by smashing him under a dungeon door.\u00a0 As he\u2019s dying Korob reveals that the source of their power is a magic wand.\u00a0 At the key moment Kirk smashes the wand and everything returns to reality.\u00a0 No castle, no fog and Korob and Sylvia are now these little six-inch figures that look like they are made of colored pipe cleaners.\u00a0 Scotty, Sulu and McCoy are unzombified and unaware of what has gone on.\u00a0 Then they go back to the ship.<\/p>\n

Even back in 1967 when I was ten years old, I knew this episode sucked.\u00a0 It has nothing.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t even give us a really good-looking woman with not much clothing.\u00a0 It was all bad.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t even redeemed by Shatner mockery points.\u00a0 It\u2019s a waste of time except as an anthropological study on early television holiday tie-ins.\u00a0 I give it a 3 \/\/ 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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