For the second episode in a row, the Enterprise needs to get a mineral to cure a plague.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 The planet with the mineral has an elite that lives in a city floating in the sky called Stratos.\u00a0 The common people are called troglytes because they work in the mineral mines.\u00a0 Kirk and Spock beam down to the mine entrance to pick up the mineral but the troglytes are in revolt and they try to capture Kirk and Spock for hostages but Plasus the leader of Stratos saves them and brings them to the city.\u00a0 Plasus\u2019 daughter is this incredibly skinny blonde model-looking girl who has the hots for Spock.\u00a0 Anyway, we find out that the trogs are angry and stupid because the mineral they dig gives off stupid gas.\u00a0 The rest of the episode is about Kirk trying to convince the cloud people and the trogs to wear masks in the mines.\u00a0 Finally, Kirk traps Plasus and the head of the trogs in a mine and when they all start becoming homicidally angry, they finally realize the truth about the stupid gas.\u00a0 Kirk gets the mineral.\u00a0 The trogs and cloud people continue to hate each other but with a little more clarity and Spock and the emaciated blonde agree that she should go down to see the mines for some reason.<\/p>\n
This is a social justice episode.\u00a0 The poor oppressed masses are being held down by the fat cats living in Stratos.\u00a0 How original.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t as bad as some other episodes I\u2019ve just watched.\u00a0 Kirk is kind of amusing when the gas made him irritable.\u00a0 I think he yelled at Scotty at one point so that was good.<\/p>\n
Point of interest.\u00a0 Plasus is played by Jeff Corey who was the outlaw that Rooster Cogburn is hunting in the original version of True Grit.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll call this a 5\u00a0 \/\/\u00a0 5.<\/p>\n
I apologize for the brevity of this review.\u00a0 But I\u2019m really running out of patience with this series as it runs out of merit.\u00a0 The least they could have done was blow up a planet or something to keep my interest.\u00a0 But all we get are whiny aliens and social justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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