episode #03 - One of Our Planets is Missing
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episode #03 - One of Our Planets is Missing
Air Date: 9/22/73 written by Marc Daniels
The writer of this one, Daniels, was a prolific director of TOS episodes. The title suggests a comical episode but it certainly is not. The Enterprise spots a huge cosmic cloud moving nearby; its size is roughly 800,000 kilometers in length. The cloud proceeds to envelop and "eat" a planet; fortunately, this planet is uninhabited. But, the next one is - very inhabited, that is, by about 80 million colonists. The cloud is only hours away from reaching this planet. The Enterprise gets swallowed and very soon it's down to two choices: either blow up the ship in an anti-matter explosion or find a way to communicate with the cloud. Guess who soon tries a variation of the Vulcan mind meld?
This doesn't really have any new Trek concepts, utilizing storypoints from TOS episodes such as The Devil in the Dark (mind melding with a very alien lifeform), The Immunity Syndrome (Enterprise inside a huge invader) and The Doomsday Machine (planet destroying), which makes sense in that writer Daniels was familiar with those old ones. It's some solid sci-fi concepts, as well as making the most of the animation possibilities. Besides the cloud, there are shots of the ship's engines which were not possible on the original show. BoG's Score: 6.5 out of 10
Trek Trivia: this featured the return, in animated form, of Bob Wesley, who was a commodore in the TOS episode, The Ultimate Computer; here it's revealed that he left the service to take over the governership of the planet in this episode.
The writer of this one, Daniels, was a prolific director of TOS episodes. The title suggests a comical episode but it certainly is not. The Enterprise spots a huge cosmic cloud moving nearby; its size is roughly 800,000 kilometers in length. The cloud proceeds to envelop and "eat" a planet; fortunately, this planet is uninhabited. But, the next one is - very inhabited, that is, by about 80 million colonists. The cloud is only hours away from reaching this planet. The Enterprise gets swallowed and very soon it's down to two choices: either blow up the ship in an anti-matter explosion or find a way to communicate with the cloud. Guess who soon tries a variation of the Vulcan mind meld?
This doesn't really have any new Trek concepts, utilizing storypoints from TOS episodes such as The Devil in the Dark (mind melding with a very alien lifeform), The Immunity Syndrome (Enterprise inside a huge invader) and The Doomsday Machine (planet destroying), which makes sense in that writer Daniels was familiar with those old ones. It's some solid sci-fi concepts, as well as making the most of the animation possibilities. Besides the cloud, there are shots of the ship's engines which were not possible on the original show. BoG's Score: 6.5 out of 10
Trek Trivia: this featured the return, in animated form, of Bob Wesley, who was a commodore in the TOS episode, The Ultimate Computer; here it's revealed that he left the service to take over the governership of the planet in this episode.
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