It goes without saying that I will mock the \u201cspace hippies\u201d episode mercilessly.\u00a0 The plot is that Dr. Sevrin, a bald-headed space hippie with c-shaped ears and his five disciples are looking for the planet Eden where all proper space hippies should live.\u00a0 He steals a star cruiser but the Enterprise catches him and his merry band.\u00a0 Sevrin has space plague so he needs to be isolated.\u00a0 But the disciples help him to escape and he uses ultrasonics to disable the crew and the hippies steal a shuttle craft to land on Eden.\u00a0 But the plant life is full of acid and poison and so the hippies burn their feet.\u00a0 When Kirk and company come to rescue the losers, they find one of the hippies named Adam dead through eating an apple (how ironic).\u00a0 And when Kirk tells Sevrin that he is being rescued he follows Adam in eating a poisoned apple and dies.\u00a0 It\u2019s a ridiculous plot but the details are even worse.<\/p>\n
The hippies are always protesting against the military authority that Kirk represents.\u00a0 They call him \u201cHerbert\u201d which Spock explains is an uncomplimentary comparison to a character who was a small-minded bureaucrat. \u00a0Kirk takes offense when told this.\u00a0 That I found funny.\u00a0 Adam and one of the girls are some kind of pathetic rock music duet.\u00a0 They sing a few songs that are very awful to hear.\u00a0 And another one of the girls is an old girlfriend of Chekov.\u00a0 So, we have to listen to the ex-lovers bickering over their lost love.\u00a0 And finally, Adam strikes up a friendship with Spock based on their mutual love of music.\u00a0 This forces us to listen to Spock and one of the girls playing a duet on space harps or something.\u00a0 And during this shindig we see random crew members rocking out by spastically moving their arms and legs in time to the beat.<\/p>\n
But the worst thing of all is just seeing these rejects.\u00a0 Adam is some kind of pop-eyed freak dressed in a tie-dyed loin cloth and go-go boots who spouts synthetic hipster lingo.\u00a0 One of the half-undressed girls is way too out of shape to be showing so much skin.\u00a0 And the third male hippie has nylon purple hair and is wearing what looks like a dress.<\/p>\n
I feel if they wanted to do this episode correctly, they should have hired the fake rock and roll group the Monkees to appear on the show painted green or something.\u00a0 That at least would have shown the right attitude toward bad music of the time.<\/p>\n
Just for the sake of fairness, Adam did say one witty thing in the show.\u00a0 After having his physical examination, he recited:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy<\/p>\n
I got a clean bill of health from Doc McCoy.\u201d<\/p>\n
With that deathless couplet I\u2019ll end this review by kindly rating it a\u00a0 5 \/\/ 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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