episode #09 - Once Upon a Planet
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episode #09 - Once Upon a Planet
Air Date: 11/3/73 written by Chuck Menville and Les Janson
This episode was a sequel to the TOS episode, Shore Leave. It altered what I thought was the set-up in the original episode. I always thought that the caretaker in the TOS episode was one of many - he was just the only one we saw. He even referenced "we" when speaking of the others, the presumed managers and tech people who were running things inside the planet. McCoy had also mentioned "they" when speaking of what was going on underneath. But, in this animated sequel, the caretaker is made out to be the last of his kind; that was what his headstone reads (also that he died in year 7009 of the planet's existence). With his death, the computer which is left to run things has gone a little batty; it has some vague plans to join with other computers in the galaxy and considers humans as inferior to machines.
This sequel, unfortunately, dumbed down and simplified the entire premise of Shore Leave, where it was hinted that there existed this highly advanced race which created this pleasure planet; they weren't godlike, just perhaps a few centuries more advanced than Starfleet and the Federation; and... they needed involved game-playing to relax. It was all intriguing. All we're left with in this sequel is another misguided machine that Kirk needs to have a short talk with. Uhura has a pretty good role in this one and there's an animated dragon. But, overall, the thought that there are no advanced aliens running the place, just a machine, depresses the whole concept. BoG's Score: 6 out of 10
This episode was a sequel to the TOS episode, Shore Leave. It altered what I thought was the set-up in the original episode. I always thought that the caretaker in the TOS episode was one of many - he was just the only one we saw. He even referenced "we" when speaking of the others, the presumed managers and tech people who were running things inside the planet. McCoy had also mentioned "they" when speaking of what was going on underneath. But, in this animated sequel, the caretaker is made out to be the last of his kind; that was what his headstone reads (also that he died in year 7009 of the planet's existence). With his death, the computer which is left to run things has gone a little batty; it has some vague plans to join with other computers in the galaxy and considers humans as inferior to machines.
This sequel, unfortunately, dumbed down and simplified the entire premise of Shore Leave, where it was hinted that there existed this highly advanced race which created this pleasure planet; they weren't godlike, just perhaps a few centuries more advanced than Starfleet and the Federation; and... they needed involved game-playing to relax. It was all intriguing. All we're left with in this sequel is another misguided machine that Kirk needs to have a short talk with. Uhura has a pretty good role in this one and there's an animated dragon. But, overall, the thought that there are no advanced aliens running the place, just a machine, depresses the whole concept. BoG's Score: 6 out of 10
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