Ah, finally a third season episode that doesn\u2019t make you run screaming.\u00a0 It\u2019s not great but it\u2019s far from awful.<\/p>\n
This one involves a blind telepathic human woman named Miranda Jones who is the attach\u00e9 of a creature called a medusan.\u00a0 He is described as an energy being but he is so visually hideous that a human that looks at him will be instantly rendered insane.\u00a0 For this reason, the medusan, Kollos, \u00a0travels around in a low, wide, rectangular, metal garbage can with a hinged lid.\u00a0 But once the lid starts to open, we get a glimpse of Fourth of July sparklers and then scary music starts to play.<\/p>\n
Spock and Miranda are in competition for the attentions of Kollos.\u00a0 Miranda is jealous because if Spock wears a red filter over his eyes, he can look directly at Kollos without going mad, whereas Miranda, being blind, can\u2019t see him at all.\u00a0 If none of this makes any sense to you, welcome to the club.\u00a0 Anyway, some other guy Lawrence Marvick, who both loves Miranda and designed the Enterprise is along on the trip.\u00a0 He is trying to dissuade Miranda from going off to live with Kollos instead of shacking up with him.\u00a0 When she rebuffs his pleas, this guy goes to kill Kollos with a phaser but, big surprise, before he can shoot Kollos he goes mad and runs away.<\/p>\n
Marvick runs to the engine room and after beating up Scotty and three or four red shirts he hijacks the Enterprise and sends it out of the galaxy at Warp 9.5!\u00a0 And as you well know that almost Warp 10!\u00a0 He dies shortly after accomplishing this feat and the crew find themselves outside the galaxy in an area of intergalactic space where there are pretty lights and no highway signs.\u00a0 We are told that they are in a space time continuum.\u00a0 Of course, I thought we were all in the space time continuum, but whatever.\u00a0 They are hopelessly lost!<\/p>\n
So now the plan is for Spock to fuse his mind with Kollos because medusans have built in GPS in their sparkler.\u00a0 This works but after getting them back into the galaxy and within satellite coverage, Spock forgets to put on his visor and sees Kollos which drives him mad.\u00a0 Now he beats up Kirk and McCoy and Sulu and Chekov for a couple of minutes until Kirk stuns him with a phaser.\u00a0 At this point Spock is dying and only Miranda might be able to save him by some kind of telepathic chiropractic manipulation.\u00a0 But when time has passed and results have not been forthcoming Kirk runs into the sick bay and yells at Miranda and manhandles her a little bit.\u00a0 This seems to have the desired effect and Miranda brings Spock back to his good old Vulcan self.\u00a0 After that there are a few apologies and then Miranda takes her garbage pail and leaves.<\/p>\n
As I mentioned, this is not an awful episode.\u00a0 Some of the highlights are Scotty wearing his kilt to a fancy dinner for Miranda, Kirk showing off the Enterprise Florist Shop where he allows a blind woman to stick herself with a thorn on one of the lousy roses they have growing there. And let\u2019s not forget the cool wavy lights in the extra-galactic dead zone. \u00a0\u00a0But possibly the bright spot of the episode is Leonard Nimoy acting as Kollos during their fusion.\u00a0 We see a very human and friendly character experiencing human senses and greeting all the people that he knows from being Spock as if seeing them for the first time.\u00a0 It\u2019s a naturalistic portrayal that I found enjoyable.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give this episode a 6 \/\/ 2.\u00a0 There was very little hysterics from Shatner, thus the low number in the Shatner Mockery Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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