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When surveying a planet for some rare metal, Kirk (William Shatner) smells something that reminds him of a mission that ended in many deaths when he was still a young cadet - and indeed, a few moments later, a couple of redshirts are taken out by a cloud, drained of all their blood. Kirk insists to investigate, even though the Enterprise has a mission lined up to deliver urgently needed and quickly expiring medicine to elsewhere. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) start to question their captain's state of mind, especially since he insists the cloud that killed the men is a lifeform, but Kirk just moves ahead, and heads another survey team to the planet, among them Ensign Garrovick (Stephen Brooks), son of the captain of the ship from above-mentioned mission. More redshirts die, and Kirk relieves Garrovick of duty since he failed to shoot the killer cloud fast enough. Then the cloud leaves the planet, and the Enterprise takes up pursuit - but somehow the cloud gets into the system, and it's only thanks to the fact that Spock's blood is copper rather than iron based that it can be flushed out. Ultimately, the Enterprise follows the cloud to its home planet, and in a mission that could have meant their deaths, Kirk and re-instated Garrovick blow it up ...

And yes, of course in the end everyone agrees Kirk was right to fight the cloud rather than deliver badly needed medicine, as it could have destroyed the galaxy.

One of the lesser episodes of the series, as it takes itself way too seriously while just falling from one cliché into the next. As a result, all the plotpoints feel generic, while the central threat of the episode, a cloud, is just a bit too silly on one hand, too vague on the other to hold the episode together in any meaningful way. That said, not a horrible episode mind you, just one of the lesser, more forgettable ones.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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