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Star Trek - The Apple
episode 2.5
Raumschiff Enterprise - Die Stunde der Erkenntnis
USA 1967
produced by Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Joseph Pevney
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Keith Andes, Celeste Yarnall, James Doohan, David Soul, Walter Koenig, Jay D. Jones, Jerry Daniels, John Winston, Mal Friedman, Shari Nims
story by Max Ehrlich, screenplay by Max Ehrlich, Gene L. Coon, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Gerald Fried
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and his survey team - Spock (Leonard
Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Chekov (Walter Koenig), Chekov's
sweetheart (Celeste Yarnall) and a quartet of redshirts - land on an
Eden-like planet ... that resembles less like Eden once plants start to
kill redshirts and sudden thunderstorms manifest out of nowhere that
strike redshirts with lightning. Eventually, the survey team meets Akuta
(Keith Andes), leader and high priest of the locals, who worship a god who
in turn for feeding him provides them with everything they need and sees
to it that they never suffer, never age. Eventually, Kirk and company of
course find out that this god is actually a machine that uses the locals
merely as means to be fed with energy. What's worrying though is that this
machine is dragging the Enterprise into its orbit with the intention of
crashing it, and disturbs all transporter signals. Spock and McCoy are
arguing what best to do, as McCoy urges Kirk to destroy this
"god" as it enslaves the local populace while Spock argues that
that would be in violation with the Federation's First Directive. Wanting
to save the Enterprise, Kirk destroys "god", freeing the locals
to fend for themselves in the future - which they argue might be something
like God evicting Adam and Eve (and thus humankind) from Eden ... Not
the best episode of the series by a far stretch, but a fun one that
contains everything that makes the series so immensely watchable, from the
totally artificial "exterior" sets to the design of the aliens,
from the tendency to solve problems with a fistfight to the philosophical
underpinnings of the story - including Spock's logic at odds with McCoy's
emotins -, pretty much everything's here, including not one but three
redshirts dying. Not great maybe, but seen through a veil of nostalgia,
it's great fun!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
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all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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