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Star Trek - For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
episode 3.8
Raumschiff Enterprise - Der verirrte Planet
USA 1968
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Anton Leader
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Katherine Woodville, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Byron Morrow, Jon Lormer
written by Hendrik Vollaerts, created by Gene Roddenberry
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The Enterprise is attacked by a handful of missiles - which are
actually easily disposed of, but it leads the ship to an asteroid on
collision course with a populated planet which it will reach in a bit over
a year. And as one does, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) decides to beam
over together with Spock (Leonard Nimoy) - and Doc McCoy (DeForest Kelley)
insists on coming as well, even though he has just diagnosed himself with
an illness that causes him to age rapidly and gives him only one more year
to live. Once over on the asteroid, our heroes are quickly captured by the
natives and brought before High Priestess Natira (Katherine Woodville),
who takes an instant liking in McCoy - and vice versa. As long as they
don't misbehave though, the natives, all controlled by the Oracle
(voiced by James Doohan) treat our heroes well enough, and while McCoy
gets more and more involved with Natira, Kirk and Spock find out that the
asteroid is a spaceship built by a long-forgotten civilisation, supposed
to bring its last survivors to greener pastures, and upon arrival they're
to read from their holy book for instructions. So Kirk and Spock figure
the holy book must be some kind of manual for the asteroid/spaceship, but
when they lay their hands on it, they're captured and convicted to death
by Natira - something which McCoy can avert by promising to marry her and
stay with her on the asteroid. Kirk and Spock are beamed back to the
Enterprise, but soon return, manage to grab the book, turn off the death
trap that was supposed to cook them alive, and ultimately they gain access
to the asteroid's engine room - which fortunately is a lot like the
Enterprise's engine room. There, they alter the course of the asteroid
slightly to no longer collide with the planet and also find a cure for
McCoy's illness. McCoy decides to return to the Enterprise, but when he
invites Natira to come with him, she prefers to stay with her people ... One
of the more boring episodes of Star Trek, as this one might
have an interesting premise but lacks proper excitement, which is not at
all helped by a rather dull climax. On top of that the sets in this one
seem so generic they border being just bland, worst probably being the
asteroid's engine room that looks like the Enterprise's engine room just
slightly re-arranged. Not a disaster at least in the eye of a fan of the
series, as at least the show's leads still have plenty to do and do it
dependedly well, just nothing to write home about.
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