(viewed Monday, April 8th)
Star Trek: The Original Series, S03E18 - "The Lights of Zetar""The Lights of Zetar"
Star Trek: The Original Series, S03E19 - "Requiem for Methuselah"
- This episode opens with the Enterprise en route to Memory Alpha, "a planetoid set up by the Federation solely as a central library, containing the total cultural history and scientific knowledge of all planetary Federation members". This is, of course, the namesake of Memory-Alpha.org, one of the best repositories of Trek-related information on the Internet (to which I link quite liberally during the course of this "mission").
- Aww, Scotty's in love...
- Stop calling her "the girl", dude. She's a Starfleet officer and a lieutenant at that, no matter how short her skirt is :P
- It's interesting that Kirk appears quite willing to use force to get the ryetalyn necessary to treat his crew's Rigelian fever. In most other episodes, it's implied if not explicitly stated that force can only be used in self-defense--never to force someone to give something up, even if it's something they need.
- There's some genuine Abrams-style shaky-cam in this episode, and I noticed some in earlier S3 episodes as well. In this case, when the camera is showing Rayna playing billiards from above, it shakes around like they had the camera man up on a ladder trying to hold the thing steady.
- Are hovering robots ever good news?
- Dude's an Immortal, duh.
- Love kills androids. Has anyone told Data?
- Whoah, wait. So not only can Spock do the whole "Remember..." thing, but he can also be all "Forget..."? O_o
Yeah, that "forget" line was the highlight of this episode and another great moment in an otherwise dreadful season.
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