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Star Trek - Requiem for Methuselah
episode 3.19
Raumschiff Enterprise - Planet der Unsterblichen
USA 1969
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Murray Golden
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Daly, Louise Sorel, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols
screenplay by Jerome Bixby, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Fred Steiner, Ivan Ditmars
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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As the Enterprise is ravaged by a lethal epidemic, Kirk (William
Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Bones (DeForest Kelley) beam down to a
supposedly uninhabited planet to fetch some minerals needed for the cure -
only to meet a grumpy old man (James Daly) and his armed floating robot
who try to chase them away. When Kirk states his case though, the grumpy
old man, Flint, becomes more friendly and invites them to dinner while he
lets his robot do the mining. At dinner, our heroes are introduced to
Flint's daughter, Rayna (Louise Sorel), whom Kirk is instantly charmed by,
and it becomes clear in no time that he wants to get inside her panties -
and at first Flint even supports that, as Rayna has never seen any men but
himself, but Flint's robot is very much opposed to this and has thus be
destroyed by Spock - not the biggie though, as Flint has spare robots.
However, the closer Kirk and Rayna get, the more erratic Flint gets. And
while Kirk's all over Rayna, Spock finds out that Flint is actually ages
old and has been, over his lifetime, both renaissance genius Leonardo da
Vinci and German composer Johannes Brahms, and possibly dozens of other
remarkable man throughout earth's history. He and Bones also find out that
Rayna's actually an android and only the last of a long line of
experiments. When they show this to Kirk, he's heartbroken, but still he
gets in a good old fistfight with Flint over her. When Rayna sees that,
she short-circuits and dies because she loves both men. And ultimately,
the crew of the Enterprise is saved, and Flint has decided after having
lived through the ages to finally age and die like a proper human and
spend his last years in peace God-knows-where. And Kirk's still
heartbroken over the android, so much so that Spock uses an Vulcanian
mind-trick to make him forget ... Definitely not one of the
better Star Trek episodes, as it follows the plot of Forbidden
Planet - which of course was a bit of a template for the whole series
as is - a bit too closely while failing to give its own flavour to the
proceedings. And even the Kirk-the-womanizer routine falls rather flat
here as it's just too blatantly used. On top of that, the three leads
display little of theirunique dynamics among themselves, something that
often saves weaker episodes, and the thing takes itself way too seriously
to properly entertain. Now as much as I say this as a fan of the series,
but this one's not really worth your while.
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