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Star Trek - The Return of the Archons
episode 1.21
Raumschiff Enterprise - Landru und die Ewigkeit
USA 1967
produced by Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by Joseph Pevney
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Harry Townes, Torin Thatcher, DeForest Kelley, Brioni Farrell, Sid Haig, Charles Macaulay, Jon Lormer, Morgan Farley, Karl Held, George Takei, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Sean Morgan, Lev Mailer, David L.Ross, Eddie Paskey
story by Gene Roddenberry, screenplay by Boris Sobelman, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Alexander Courage
TV-series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The starship Enterprise is investigating the disappearance of another
spaceship one hundred years ago - and discovers a planet where everybody
seems to be brainwashed, and the survey team, headed by Captain Kirk
(William Shatner) and Mr Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are to be brainwashed as
well while the Enterprise is dragged down by tractor beams emmanating from
the planet and is not able to break free ... which makes Kirk think, since
the planet is by far not well enough developed to have this kind of
tractor beams ...
Ultimately, Kirk and company are able to team up with two resistance
fighters who have not yet be brainwashed (Harry Townes, Torin Thatcher),
discover that the planet's god Landru (Charles Macaulay) is a mere
hologram and find out the planet is really controlled (and brainwashed) by
a sort of super computer - but not super enough to withstand Kirk's
arguments that he - the computer - is really the source of all the
planet's evil and therefore must self-destruct - boom.
Of course, the ending of this episode, where Kirk persuades a computer
to self-destruct, is rather silly, and some of the story is rather
predictable, but apart from that, The Return of the Archons is a
nice paranoia tale that manages to move along swiftly and remain
entertaining. Nothing great perhaps, but totally watchable.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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