Saturday, April 30, 2022

A STAR CHART MISDIRECTION

 


Episode Title:  Beyond the Farthest Star

Air Date: 9/8/1973

Written by Samuel A. Peeples

Directed by Hal Sutherland

Cast: William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk    Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock        DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard H. McCoy AKA “Bones”              James Doohan  as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott AKA “Scotty”, Lieutenant Kyle, Ancient Insectoid, Magnetic Organism         George Takei  as Lieutenant  Hikaru Sulu              Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura          Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel       

Ships: USS Enterprise NCC-1701, old unnamed alien ship

Planets: none

My Spoiler filled summary and review: The Enterprise is doing some basic star charting when it is caught in the gravity of a collapsed star.  It looks like they are about to crash, when Kirk askes Sulu to attempt to use their speed to establish standard orbit around the dead star.  While in orbit they come across a large, amazing, and very old space ship.  This alien ship has been in orbit for hundreds of millions of years.  Kirk was going to have Sulu do a sling-shot around the old star to help them break away but this older-than-human-existence starship stuck in the same place makes those plans seem far-fetched.  They decide to go aboard the strange craft and since there is no life-support on that ship the boarding party wore life-support belts that gave them personal forcefields against the cold and airless environment. 

The Enterprise encounters the strangest ship she has ever seen!

As they explore the alien ship, they discover that a lot of the damage is self-inflicted. They are able to access the ship’s systems and are informed by a warning left over from dead aliens that their ship was occupied by a disembodied energy magnetic organism.  It caused chaos on their ship to the point that these aliens, the Insectoids, chose to destroy themselves before they let this entity spread itself throughout the universe. Then the control center starts to self-destruct and they have to do an emergency beam out.  However, when the boarding party martializes aboard the Enterprise the find the very alien that ended life on that other ship has come aboard with them.  The energy creature escapes through the ventilation system just like Kirk’s least favorite cloud.  


The alien entity starts causing problems all throughout the ship.  Systems are turning on and off. Life support has been completely shut off in certain areas of the ship.  The bridge systems start to become unresponsive.  Spock gets around what the alien has done to the putting a shield around the navigation control.  Kirk decides to kill two birds with one stone.  He has Sulu fly straight towards the dead star.  The entity thinks they are committing suicide so it jumps from the Enterprise back to the dead star’s surface.  That is when the ship does the sling-shot maneuver breaking away.  The evil thing calls out to them not to abandon it because it is so lonely.  However, after nearly being killed by it, the crew of the Enterprise resume their star charting instead.

FF belts

Additional thoughts: After four years of being off the air Star Trek returned. Following the grand tradition of the previous series they decided to air all these episodes out of order. So, they aired the fourth episode they made first. This was a good choice for it is a decent adventure with general Star Trek themes.  There is an energy-creature alien threatening the ship and they have to pull out any trick they can think of to possibly get rid of it.  However, I am and always will be a proponent for production order in regards to classic Star Trek. 

Not their friend

Also notice the date?  Star Trek: The Animated Series shares the same birthday with its older sibling series.  I wonder if that was a coincidence or if they did that on purpose?  The new series also has a new theme song that seems to take the classic Star Trek tune and give a 1970s spin.

A new energy creature disembodied alien threat.  This one joins the ranks of the vampire cloud, the anger vampire, and that one that liked to prey on kids.  However, it wasn’t as much a threat given how easy it was to resolve.  That is the consequence of a show that is a half-hour long with commercials.  There is not enough time.  They spend too much of it building up the treat and all of it is wasted when they beat it in under two minutes. 

Trying to get away

Okay so far, I am loving these stories that The Animated Series tells but I am not too thrilled with the animation itself.  It’s not like talking about the graphics in the classic series, because that can always be explained that TV graphics in the 1960s had those natural limitations.  However, there was better animation than this in the 1940s, all you have to do is watch any of the old Superman cartoons. There is something about animation of this era that was just not good, Super Friends suffers from the same problem. Either way the “star” in this episode looked more like a moon.

That's doesn't look like a star!

Those force-field belts were pretty cool what ever happened to them?  A lot easier than a space suit.  Although they might not feel as secure.  I suppose they might have had a higher fail rate than the suits and that is why they were tossed.  They should bring them back if they perfect the technology they are rather convenient.

FINAL GRADE 3 of 5

Saturday, April 23, 2022

THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER FOR STAR TREK THE ANIMATED SERIES

 


Episode Title:  Yesteryear

Air Date: 9/15/1973

Written by Dorothy C. Fontana

Directed by Hal Sutherland

Cast: William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk    Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock        DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard H. McCoy AKA “Bones”              James Doohan  as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott AKA “Scotty”, The Guardian of Forever, Aleek-Om, Lieutenant Bates, Lieutenant Erikson, Commander Thelin, unnamed Vulcan Healer       George Takei  as Lieutenant  Hikaru Sulu              Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura          Majel Barrett as Amanda Grayson and Lieutenant Grey       Mark Lenard as         Ambassador Sarek                 Billy Simpson as Young Spock                Keith Sutherland as Young Sepek

Ships: USS Enterprise NCC-1701

Planets: Guardian’s unnamed homeworld, Vulcan

My Spoiler filled summary and review: The crew of the Enterprise has returned to the planet that hosts The Guardian of Forever.  When we last saw this famous time travel device, Kirk having been traumatized after saving the Federation from being wiped out of existence, wanted nothing to do with the Guardian and its journeys.  However, the Guardian seems to have gotten its wish and the artifact is now being used by the Federation as a source of research. 

The Guardian of Forever

This still seems like a pretty dangerous idea to me but Starfleet and the Federation strongly believe in going boldly, so long as you go carefully, with the whole time travel business.  Also, if The Guardian of Forever is going to become more user-friendly who wouldn’t want to take advantage of that?  Kirk, Spock, and Lt. Erikson emerge from the past having just witnessed the origins of the Orion Syndicate.  However as soon as they arrive something is wrong as McCoy doesn’t recognize Mr. Spock.  Kirk thinks McCoy is playing a joke on him, you would think he would know better, and orders the landing party to be beamed up.  When they materialize on the Enterprise none of the crew recognize Mr. Spock.   McCoy then introduces Kirk a Andorian named Commander Thelin, who McCoy explains has been his first officer for what is now the fifth year of their mission. 

Research

In the conference room the senior officers brainstorm about what happened, even Thelin is getting in on it despite the fact that if they restore things to the way they were he won’t be here anymore.  It turns out that Spock in the new time line died as a young child, his parents soon then divorced and Amanda was killed in a shuttle accident on her way back to Earth.  Ever since Sarek has been devoted to his work representing over seventeen Federation worlds at one time or another.

Spock's replacement

Given the age he was said to have died and the time period being investigated on Vulcan by the other researchers while Spock was with Kirk and Erickson in the past, Spock concludes that his death occurred during his kahs-wan maturity test.  In the original time line Spock was almost killed but a distant cousin of his, who had been recently visiting, saved his life.  The cousin, who was named Selek, was never seen by him again.  This prompts Kirk to ask if that “Selek” looked like him now.  With that Spock realizes what he must do: he must go back in time and be his own rescuer.  Kirk volunteers to go with him but Spock says he must do so alone.  With everyone’s support, even Thelin which is a surprise, Spock is given some supplies and change of clothes that prepare him as he heads back to the past through the Guardian.

"Selek" and Sarek

Spock returns a home and notes in his log that he forgot how beautiful Vulcan was.  There he is able to convince Sarek that he is a long-lost cousin.  It is rather interesting that Vulcan doesn’t have these records readily and electronically available to confirm this but Spock is protected by the power of plot.  Spock has discussions with both of his parents and watches his younger self fall victim to vicious bullies and be called an “Earther.” Young Spock is also embarrassed as he has yet to learn the Vulcan nerve pinch.



Later Sarek is talking with Young Spock about the kahs-wan, which involves desert survival.  He explains that it is not unusual for Vulcans to fail the first time and succeed at second or even third attempts.  However, since Spock is only half-Vulcan he must not fail for if he does others will say it was because of his weak human half.  Young Spock therefore decides that he must have some training and elects to try out the desert on his own. 

Spock being bullied

He packs and says good-bye to his pet sehlat, I-Chaya, and then heads out to the desert.  Unknown to Young Spock both I-Chaya and his future self are close behind.  Young Spock notices I-Chaya and tells him to stay behind as he is too old and too fat to be of any use.  However, I-Chaya still follows and when Young Spock is attacked by a le-matya, it is the loyal pet who saves him battling the beast.  Spock shows up and nerve pinches the le-matya to end the fight but the damage has been done. I-Chaya is dying of poisoning from the le-matya.  

shelat vs le-matya

They need a veterinarian, so Young Spock decides to take it upon himself to run and get one.  Young Spock returns with help but it is too late, Young Spock has to make a decision does he prolong I-Chaya’s life and also prolong the suffering or does he give him a more peaceful death.  Young Spock decides on the later.

I-Chaya lay dying

Young Spock reconciles with his parents and they are both proud of him.  Spock, as Selek, tells Sarek to do right by his son, which is all he can say without endangering the time line further as we know Sarek won't.  Spock returns home and all has been returned to normal. However, he is disappointed that he lost a pet that he didn’t lose at that point in the pre-tampered timeline.

Additional thoughts: Absolutely amazing episode but that is what you can always expect from DC Fontana. This episode also has a very important message for young children who have a pet.  You are most likely going to outlive your pet. One of the saddest episodes of my life is when my father and I had to put my boyhood dog Rex down when I was in early college.  It is an odd memory because even though it is sad, I am content with it.  I am glad I was there to hold him in his last moments.

My boyhood dog, Rex!

It seems Kirk has gotten over his anger at The Guardian of Forever.  When he last left, he wanted nothing to do with it.  Time heals all wounds, even the loss of Edith Keeler?  Or maybe it is just Kirk being the ultimate professional that he realizes some of his missions are going to be painful.  Speaking of the Guardian, did anyone else notice how user friendly it is now?  They can just tell the Guardian the time and it sends them right there. Before they had to scan with a tricorder and patiently wait for the right moment during the time run through to jump.  It is much better this way.  Maybe the Guardian realized more people would pay attention to it if it had a more useful interface.

I did notice a minor plot hole. It was established in the “The City on the Edge of Forever” that those in the immediate vicinity of the Guardian are immune from the time change.  Remember the entire landing party was still fine after McCoy went through the Guardian.  So, when Spock returned the first time everyone with the landing party should have still known him.  It is not until they got back to the ship that people should have started to notice who this strange Vulcan was.  Also Thelin sees Spock into the Guardian, so he should remain unaltered by the correction. 

This episode continues the tradition of rather bizarre log entries.  Why Spock is stopping to make these log entries?  His existence has been wiped out of history and he is going back in time to make sure he doesn’t die as child and he is doing log entries. Who is going to read these if he fails?  He isn’t in Starfleet anymore.

So, let’s talk about the Commander Thelin.  Where is he in the regular time line?  His existence wasn’t on the line just his job.  So, I imagine he is still in Starfleet but where is he?  First officer of the USS Lexington, perhaps?  I think he is doing well, the only one who suffered with Spock being re-added to the timeline is the last person to get accepted the Academy the year Spock was supposed to join.  That person had to find a new career.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that Mr. Spock was so replaceable?  Shouldn’t there be more butterflies from Spock dying as a kid?  The only three we had was Amanda dying, Serek being over worked, and Thelin getting Spock’s job.  Spock saved Kirk’s career in “Court Martial.”  He saved whole ship multiple times a good example is “The Immunity Syndrome.” How did these adventures go down without Spock there?  Thelin stepped in every time?  I think it might have been better if nobody notice change on the surface, and when they beamed up not only did everyone not know who Spock was, but they were shocked to see McCoy.  As McCoy had died chasing the giant one-celled organism in a shuttle.    Maybe Thelin saved Kirk from Finney but Captain Pike is probably having a miserable time in physical therapy. 

Jimmy Doohan was a great voice actor and he pulls a lot of weight on his show filling in for many characters and aliens not just Scotty.  However, his Guardian of Forever is not his best work.  It sounds weak, off, and nothing like the Guardian from “The City on the Edge of Forever.”

Spock comforts his dying pet!

Speaking of the Guardian’s original appearance, in that episode a homeless man accidently vaporized himself with a phaser.  In this episode Spock’s boyhood pet died before he had in the timeline Spock remembered.  Now talked about my boyhood dog Rex dying when I was in college, how would my life have altered if I had lost my dog in high school?  I don’t know but I think it would.  This is how I often explain continuity errors.

FINAL GRADE 5 of 5

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

THAT IS ONE BIG SPOCK!!!

 


Episode Title:  The Infinite Vulcan

Air Date: 10/20/1973

Written by Walter Koenig

Directed by Hal Sutherland

Cast: William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk    Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock and Spock II             DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard H. McCoy AKA “Bones”              James Doohan  as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott AKA “Scotty”, Agmar, and Stavos Keniclius V      George Takei  as Lieutenant  Hikaru Sulu              Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura          Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel          

Ships: USS Enterprise NCC-1701

Planets: Phylos

My Spoiler filled summary and review: The landing party from the Enterprise is exploring the planet Phylos.  Mr. Sulu comes across an interesting plant that can actually walk and then reroute itself.  He shows the Captain and then tries to pick it up.  However, he then finds himself pricked by a thorn that turns out to be poisonous and now he is quickly dying.  McCoy tries to save Mr. Sulu but can’t.  Fortunately, it turns out this planet is inhabited by intelligent life.  The locals of this planet are intelligent plants.  They are basically plant people and they have the ability to save Sulu.  

Sulu is down but not yet out

After Mr. Sulu recovers, the leader of their hosts, a plant person named Agmar, takes the Starfleet officers on a tour of their city.  It turns out that most of their people are dead.  After they encountered humanoids a generation before the plant people of Phylos were exposed to a virus that wiped out their ability to reproduce and killed most of their population.  So, most of the city is empty and there is even a fleet of space ships that were never able to be put to use.

Plant People

Suddenly they are attacked by flying plant creatures.  They can’t defend themselves because their phasers have been neutralized by the technology on the planet.  The creatures take Spock and make off with him. As the three remaining officers try to recover, they run into a giant (like Jack and the Bean Stock giant) human who calls himself Stavos Keniclius 5.  He says that Spock is the perfect specimen to build an army and they better get lost because they can’t save Spock but if they stay, they will need saving. 


Back aboard the Enterprise, the crew brainstorms about what to do.  Uhura discovers that Stavos Keniclius was a rogue scientist from the Eugenics Wars.  So, for the second time in their lives, they were faced with another person from that famous 1990s conflict.  Now unlike Kahn the man wasn’t in suspended animation but he had grown to be a giant.  However, since he referred to himself with the number “5” Kirk concludes he is a type of overgrown clone.  He orders the ship’s phasers to be used to try to damage the city’s defenses but the alien technology proves immune.  McCoy has an idea for a weapon that they could try.

Flying plants

The three officers return and Kirk uses his supreme fighting skills that are famed throughout the galaxy to grab Agmar and get him to bring them to Mr. Spock.   They find him but he is in a device, when McCoy scans him, they discover his brain is shutting down.  Next to our giant human is a giant Spock who we are told is “Spock 2” and the reason why the prime Spock is dying.  All that Spock is mentally is transferred into the giant.  They flying plant creatures come back but the landing party fights them off with pesticides.

Plant people attacking

At Scotty’s insistence Uhura is able to communicate with the landing party at great risk to the ship.  She informs Kirk that the fleet was to send an army in bring order to this side of the galaxy.  Kirk appeals directly to Spock Two reminding him of IDIC and that the Federation has been a force for peace. Spock Two then solves everything by mind-melding with his other self.  This ensures that both Spocks get to keep all their memories.  Keniclius wonders if his entire existence is now worth nothing to which the Spocks show him that working together he and Spock 2 can save the Phylosian civilization from extinction.  The two giants now have a noble mission and the original Spock returns with the landing party of the Enterprise.

Stavos Keniclius V

Additional thoughts: Well, we have a second story about a Spock duplicate.  This duplicate has a couple of advantages.  The first is he is so much bigger that they are not going to have any problem telling them apart and Big Spock is so helpful.  It is too bad this series didn’t include Ensign Chekov, but it is nice that Walter Koenig got to become the first Star Trek actor to contribute behind the camera as well.  Many more would follow him. 

Spock not doing so good!

I really did like the idea of the Phylosians.  The most intelligent and dominant life form on the planet is not the ape-like apex predators but rather a family of talking plants. After all, if we are seeking out strange new worlds this is the type of thing we should be running into.  Alien peoples whose entire evolutionary paths are from a road quite different from our own. The last time we had something as neat as this you have to go all the way back to the Horta from “The Devil in the Dark.”

Spock II

Another relic from the Eugenics War.  That 20th century conflict has now given the crew of the Enterprise two headaches now.  However, this one seems a little more reasonable he wants power to prevent war and impose peace.  He is just looking for a hero to do that with and thought he found one in Mr. Spock.  I can hardly blame him there Mr. Spock is a good guy and if I had to pick one person to help me solve the problems of the universe, he is probably the one I would pick.  Kahn in “Space Seed” just wanted to install himself as the world or galaxy’s ruler.

Spock helping himself out!

Is it just me or do other fans want to see a scene where Spock explains to Sarek and Amanda the existence of Spock Two?  What would be his parents’ reaction to this giant version of their son?  Would they view him as another son of theirs or something entirely different?  Knowing Sarek he would base his reaction on emotion and try to pretend his reasons were logical.

FINAL GRADE 4 of 5

Monday, April 4, 2022

THE CUTE FURRY CREATURES FROM HELL HAVE RETURNED AND NOW THEY GROW BIG!!!

 


Episode Title:  More Tribbles, More Troubles

Air Date: 10/6/1973

Written by David Gerrold

Directed by Hal Sutherland

Cast: William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk    Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock             DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard H. McCoy AKA “Bones”              James Doohan  as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott AKA “Scotty”, Captain Koloth, and Korax        George Takei  as Lieutenant  Hikaru Sulu              Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura          Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel          David Gerrold as unnamed Ensign          Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones            

Ships: USS Enterprise NCC-1701, unnamed Klingon K't'inga-class battle cruiser, unnamed Federation scout ship, two unnamed robot ships

Planets: none

My Spoiler filled summary and review: The episode begins with the USS Enterprise escorting two robot ships to Sherman’s Planet where there has been an outbreak of famine.  The robot ships are carrying shipments of the grain quintotriticale which is known to grow so well at Sherman’s planet before whatever caused this famine.  I assume whatever caused the famine had nothing to do with quintotriticale as they wouldn’t be bringing more of it if it had completely failed in just two years.  It must have been a weather-related disaster I imagine.   

Robot ships

The Enterprise gets a distress single from a Federation scout ship.  Kirk orders his ship in on the rescue.  The scout is being attacked by Klingons, the Enterprise moves in and demands the Klingons stop. The Klingons ignore them but Scotty is able to beam the pilot out of his ship before it is destroyed.   The Klingons then turn their attention to the Enterprise and in doing so release a powerful new weapon that immobilizes the Enterprise and shuts down her shields and weapons. It turns out they are fighting Captain Koloth again and he demands they surrender the pilot or prepare to be boarded.  Spock realizes that the power being used to shut them down is so draining that it also prevents the Klingon ship from doing anything offensively while they have it activated.  Kirk refuses Koloth’s demands and since they still have control of the robot ships, he sends them both at ramming speed.  The Klingons try to expand their energy weapon, but it overwhelms them and they have to shut it down.   They manage to damage one of the robot ships but our forced to retreat.

Jones with new tribbles 

With the Klingons gone Scotty can finally get the transporter to complete.  Once complete the crew are once again face to face with Cyrano Jones and his bag of tribbles.  They are quite shocked to say the least. The last they saw of him he was picking up tribbles at the K-7 space station.  Now he is free trying to sell more of them.  However, he claims that these new pink tribbles are different, they don’t multiple like the others do, they only grow fat when they consume food.  McCoy later confirms this.  When asked how he got rid of all the tribbles at the space station Jones introduces them to aglommer.” The species that eats up tribbles rather quickly. 

The Tribble eater

Since one of the robot ships was damaged and can’t warp, the Enterprise is forced to take on the cargo.  There is so much of it that it takes up a great deal of room.  Almost every hall way in every corridor has buckets of grain.  The Klingons return and the Enterprise quickly fights them off.  They don’t try their new weapon leaving Spock to speculate that they might not be able to just yet.  During the battle the storage units of grain get knocked over and the tribbles get a feast, growing nice and big.  This new breed of tribble is creating its own level of nuisance.  In addition to that the other robot ship is damaged forcing the Enterprise to take it in tow. 

Oh no! Now its Tribble food
 

The Klingons return a third time and with their new weapon working.  With no robot ships to entrap the Klingons their ship is stuck.  When Kirk looks for suggestions, Spock says that they “might throw tribbles at them.”  This gives Kirk and idea he has Scotty use the transporter to once again take the majority of their tribble population and transport it on to the Klingon ship.  The Klingons get the surprise of their life when they head to their transporter room to invade the Enterprise only to find the transporter room overwhelmed with giant tribbles.  Koloth contacts the Enterprise and explains that they only wanted the glommer and they could keep Jones.  Kirk accepts the plan that doesn’t require that they hand over one of their citizens to their enemies. 

Fat Tribbles 

As they proceed to Sherman’s Planet McCoy discovers the truth about the new tribbles.  The giant tribbles are in fact tribble colonies.  When McCoy injects one of the giants it breaks down into tiny tribbles, however they are tribbles that have been sterilized.  The Klingons are not so lucky before the giant tribble colony broke down; its size scared the glommer.  Back on the Enterprise, Kirk tries to break up one tribble colony and gets buried in tribbles for the second time in his life, but this time no carcasses.  



Additional thoughts: After being off the air for four short years the cast was brought back to make Star Trek again, only this time in animated form.  To this we owe to the magic of re-runs! As the number of TV stations grew, they needed content.  So, they started running re-runs of shows no longer on the air. So, Star Trek returned to the small screen and it was doing so much better in the second, third, and fourth go rounds.  With its popularity growing fans started asking for new Star Trek content.  Thus, Star Trek: The Animated Series was born.

The Enterprise under attack!

Like its predecessor series, the Animated Series was aired out of order in an attempt to grab the largest audience they could.  However, as I have already established, with classic Star Trek, I am a production order person, and therefore I will be watching these for review in production order. Or as I like to call it, the true order.

The Klingon ship under command of Koloth

So, I generally enjoyed episode, I did notice some animation errors, like Mr. Scott having a mustache randomly appear on his face and go away.  Also, at one point Scotty had a captain’s rank insignia on his sleeves.  Speaking of rank insignia when did Dr. McCoy get his promotion? He is wearing commander stripes throughout the episode. I kept expecting them to revert to his normal lt. commander stipes but it never happened.  I haven’t seen this series since I was a kid so I am interested to see if that tiny detail stays.

McCoy in a commander's uniform!

It is telling that the first episode they decide to make upon their return is a sequel episode.  Nothing says “we’re back to continue what we started” like the follow up to an earlier story.  Considering how popular the original “The Trouble with Tribbles” was it was a great decision to start there.  They have had a sequel episode before with “I, Mudd” from season 2 to follow up “Mudd’s Women” from season 1.  You could argue “The Menagerie” was but I don’t consider a Part 2 a sequel just the second part and “The Cage” to which the episode was following never aired.  

I really enjoyed the battle with the Klingons.  It was fun and exciting.  It also showed off Kirk’s skill as a tactician with his use of the robot ships and the tribbles against the Klingons.  Poor Koloth, twice he messed with Captain Kirk and his Enterprise crew and each time walked away with ship invested with tribbles. How insulting for such a proud warrior.  You don’t mess with the best Koloth!

The Klingons’ new weapon was interesting but I also like how the plot disposes of it.  Otherwise, we would wonder every time we see them why they aren’t using it.  The power drain and the fact that it seemed to paralyze the user as well as the victim earn it a spot on the failed inventions list.

Poor Captain Kirk once again buried in tribbles.  That was a very funny easter egg that I greatly enjoyed.

FINAL GRADE 5 of 5