Memorable in a cheesy way for Star Trek TOS, this is a weaker season two episode. This episode has many memorable scenes which still make it must see Trek. Several things from this episode are used in bits in others shows like the voice clip of McCoy saying... "Your outta your Vulcan mind, Spock!", an obvious joke and a very good one in the play with the word substitution using Vulcan. This episode also had a clip that was very amusing with Kirk and his "love interest" the green haired alien "female" in a kiss with the aliens cameltoe very visible, this was used in a Star Trek bloopers video I saw with the Mission Impossible theme playing in the background as the tape was spooled back and forth, very funny! As far as that blooper scene goes, I don't see it in the episode cut because they cropped the picture where as the blooper reel used uncut footage, but you can see cameltoe when Kirk lays her down after knocking her out, this blooper reel also had a scene with a man (african-american no doubt!) shoveling coal into the Enterprises engines to make it go! Chekov's "mate" is also a dubious female, a precursor to todays transsexual (although a real female actor, maybe her voice was dubbed with that of a male's) and Chekov definitely understood this as he was hit on by this alien, also very funny stuff. So yes, it's very cheesy and not one that would rank as best Trek, but very memorable to watch for these reasons. Interesting to note, there is a woman at the helm of the Enterprise substituting for the now gone Chekov, a science officer (yellow shirt though, I think) who assists Spock in finding the lost crew. I don't recall another woman being at the helm, I thought that was very unique. She comes across very professionally and I would have liked seeing her launch some photon torpedoes in later episodes, too bad it was not to be, but it further establishes that the Enterprise had many crewmen. 7 of 10, I'm jaded that I have watched this series so many times, but the first time I saw it as a pre teen it definitely was entertaining, and since it still is deserves a decently high rating.
Also, NO REDSHIRT CREWMEN WERE HARMED OR KILLED IN THE MAKING OF THIS EPISODE!
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Also, NO REDSHIRT CREWMEN WERE HARMED OR KILLED IN THE MAKING OF THIS EPISODE!
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