120 Days of Star Trek--The Enterprise Incident
Last night watched the 2nd episode of the 3rd season of Star Trek (The Original Series): The Enterprise Incident. Despite the plot holes this was an excellent episode.
* Kirk going crazy.
* The Enterprise entering the Romulan Neutral Zone.
* A female Romulan commander with the hots for Spock.
* Spock engaging in finger foreplay with the Romulan.
* Klingon ships.
* Kirk surgically made to look like a Romulan.
* The Cloaking device, which looks suspiciously like they married Sauron's sphere with Nomad.
* A convincing Romulan Sub-commander.
And, yet:
* Only Spock and Kirk know about the spy mission.
* So when McCoy is told and he has to take him back to the ship he quickly does surgery to make him look like a Romulan (ears, eyebrows). Maybe Star Fleet surgeons have to take a course in plastic surgery to turn humans into aliens or aliens into other aliens. Seems like a specialty and one you can't do with a few minutes preparation time!
* All logical Spock immediately drops his guard for the purposes of fulfilling his mission...but it seems so easy for him and that seems so out of character.
* This is all sprung on Scotty so quickly and yet he is asked to hook up a Romulan Cloaking Device he has never seen before. In fact no one in the Federation has seen one! I don't care how good an engineer is, that person can't immediately hook up any device without knowing what each connector powers or controls. At least it seemed like a little struggle (he didn't get it right the first time).
* The whole charade about Kirk going mad, put on for the benefit of the crew, was good theater but the Romulans never bothered to check Federation records or the ship logs!
The next two episodes in the season I am skipping: The Paradise Syndrome and And The Children Shall Lead. The former is recommended for many reasons, but I still can't stomach Kirk as an American Native. I only have vague recollections of the latter, but it is one of the most disliked ST episodes. Moving on....
* Kirk going crazy.
* The Enterprise entering the Romulan Neutral Zone.
* A female Romulan commander with the hots for Spock.
* Spock engaging in finger foreplay with the Romulan.
* Klingon ships.
* Kirk surgically made to look like a Romulan.
* The Cloaking device, which looks suspiciously like they married Sauron's sphere with Nomad.
* A convincing Romulan Sub-commander.
And, yet:
* Only Spock and Kirk know about the spy mission.
* So when McCoy is told and he has to take him back to the ship he quickly does surgery to make him look like a Romulan (ears, eyebrows). Maybe Star Fleet surgeons have to take a course in plastic surgery to turn humans into aliens or aliens into other aliens. Seems like a specialty and one you can't do with a few minutes preparation time!
* All logical Spock immediately drops his guard for the purposes of fulfilling his mission...but it seems so easy for him and that seems so out of character.
* This is all sprung on Scotty so quickly and yet he is asked to hook up a Romulan Cloaking Device he has never seen before. In fact no one in the Federation has seen one! I don't care how good an engineer is, that person can't immediately hook up any device without knowing what each connector powers or controls. At least it seemed like a little struggle (he didn't get it right the first time).
* The whole charade about Kirk going mad, put on for the benefit of the crew, was good theater but the Romulans never bothered to check Federation records or the ship logs!
The next two episodes in the season I am skipping: The Paradise Syndrome and And The Children Shall Lead. The former is recommended for many reasons, but I still can't stomach Kirk as an American Native. I only have vague recollections of the latter, but it is one of the most disliked ST episodes. Moving on....