Here's a review of this episode that I contributed anonymously to a no-longer-updated website, The OTR Plot Spot:
Did the makers of the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" knowingly borrow from this tale? It's a very similar premise, except that the goofier aspects of the movie -- the talking robot, the virginal heroine, the Id monster, the comic relief cook -- are absent: a spaceship crew with a no-nonsense captain decelerates from faster-than-light speed to find itself on a planet seemingly haunted by a long-dead alien race that invented a device for visualizing thoughts before mysteriously committing mass suicide. This crisp, fast-moving adaptation ratchets up the tension of the original short story with a few smart changes, like adding the threat of the crew's being stranded on the planet permanently. If you found "Forbidden Planet" cheesy and boring, you might prefer this.