Here is one of the flimsiest episodes in the series.\u00a0 Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and a red shirt transport down to a planet that seems to have been artificially constructed.\u00a0 But as they are being transported a woman appears and kills the crewman operating the transporter.\u00a0 Then she \u201ctransports\u201d the Enterprise almost a thousand light years away from the planet.<\/p>\n
Back on the planet the woman reappears and kills the red shirt just by placing her hand on him.\u00a0 Then she goes back to the Enterprise and sabotages the engines so that they will explode through excessive speed.\u00a0 Back on the planet she attacks Sulu but before she can kill him Kirk gets between her and Sulu.\u00a0 Apparently, she can kill only one victim at a time.\u00a0 To others her touch is harmless.<\/p>\n
Scotty has to climb into an access shaft to get at the antimatter feed stream with a magnetic probe.\u00a0 He complains about the magnetic force feeling like ants crawling over his body but Spock chides him to stop making subjective remarks and get the job done.\u00a0 With no time left and after being told to \u201creverse the polarity\u201d of his magnetic probe by Spock, Scotty \u201cfixes\u201d the antimatter stream and the Enterprise is good as new.<\/p>\n
Back on the planet the woman whose name we learn is Losira returns looking for Kirk this time.\u00a0 McCoy and Sulu act as blockers preventing Losira from touching Kirk.\u00a0 When she is prevented from doing her job, she contracts to a line then collapses down to a point and disappears.\u00a0 Next the landing party find a hidden cave where there is a computer shaped like a cube that is the source of Losira.\u00a0 But now there are three Losiras and each one is selected for one of the three landing party members.\u00a0 Just when it seems our heroes are doomed Spock and a red shirt beam down into the cave.\u00a0 Kirk shouts for them to destroy the cube.\u00a0 The cube being hit by a phaser, the Losiras disappear and a message starts playing explaining that Losira was the last of a group of guardians who were tasked with guarding this new world for her people.\u00a0 But both these new people and the guardians succumbed to a virus that they accidentally produced when the created the planet.\u00a0 The Losira they saw was just a computer construct to protect the planet from intruders.\u00a0 McCoy says something about Losira being beautiful.\u00a0 Spock says beauty doesn\u2019t last.\u00a0 Kirk says beauty survives.\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n
This is one of the least meaningful plots ever used on this show.\u00a0 To me it seems completely contrived and pointless.\u00a0 The only amusing dimension is the bickering between Spock and Scotty.\u00a0 With Scotty in a panic over the problems he encounters trying to repair the overloading engines Spock constantly chides him to dispense with emotion and keeps up a veritable countdown on the moment of destruction for the ship which Scotty finds maddening.\u00a0 And this little scene is amusing.<\/p>\n
Losira is played by Lee Meriwether who was an attractive young woman who played one of the Catwomen on the 1960s Batman show.\u00a0 But her part in this drama is extremely limited by the simplistic plot.<\/p>\n
So how do I rate this mostly pointless episode?\u00a0 I\u2019ll give it a 5 \/\/ 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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