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Star Trek - By Any Other Name
episode 2.22
Raumschiff Enterprise - Stein und Staub
USA 1968
produced by
John Meredyth Lucas, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Marc Daniels
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Warren Stevens, Barbara Bouchet, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Stewart Moss, Walter Koenig, Robert Fortier, Lezlie Dalton, Carl Byrd, Julie Cobb
story by Jerome Bixby, screenplay by D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Fred Steiner
TV series
Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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The Enterprise follow a distress call to an uncharted planet, and once
Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and company beam down, the redshirts are
quickly dealt with by Rojan (Warren Stevens) and his small gang, and they
are quick to take over the Enterprise as well - and their superior
technology leaves Kirk no alternative than to stand back and watch, as the
aliens have weapons that can paralyze or reduce someone to their
essence (but also get them back to normal again), and though small in
numbers, Rojan and company have no problems defeating the crew of the ship
- and turning them all into minerals containing their essence. All but
Kirk, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James
Doohan), naturally, because someone has to save the day. Now Rojan and
company aren't all evil, they're explorers from Andromeda who have been on
the look-out for a planet to colonize, and now want to get back home to
report finding one - and they just need to borrow the Enterprise to make
their way back home. Thing is, travel to Andromeda takes 300 years, even
at Warp 11, so that stretches "just borrowing" a little. Now of
course, Kirk and company want their ship back, and after using force and
failing, they try to find out more about Rojan and friends, and learn they
are not humanoids as such, but aliens in human "shells", and
they haven't yet found out the perks of being a woman (and also human
emotions) - so Scotty gets one of them (Robert Fortier) dead drunk, McCoy
gives one of them (Stewart Moss) adrenaline shots to make him rebel
against Rojan, Kirk of course picks the sexy woman (Barbara Bouchet) of
Rojan's entourage to seduce her, and Spock works on Rojan's jealousy, with
pretty awesome results. And once the usurpers have found out it's fun to
be human, they give command back to Kirk and ask to be shipped back to the
planet they were found at to live on as humans ... Now
story-wise, this episode is of course slightly silly, with a solution
that's a bit of an anti-climax, but it scores high in the camp department,
with especially William Shatner and James Doohan allowed to ham it up,
throwing them both into signature situations. Basically, this is one of
the more comedic episodes of Star Trek - and a fun one at
that.
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