episode #20 - Albatross
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episode #20 - Albatross
Air Date: 9/28/74 written by Dario Finelli
In this episode, McCoy is accused of starting a plague on a planet 19 years earlier, wiping out the population there. He's to be placed on trial by a race of aliens known for kangaroo courts. Kirk takes the Enterprise over to the planet in question and finds a survivor. This survivor may be the key to vindicating McCoy but, on the way back, the crew all contract the plague (this is evidenced by the afflicted people changing skin color - first to blue; Spock, as usual, seems immune). It's now no longer just a case of saving McCoy but the entire crew.
This has the intriguing question - did McCoy actually cause a plague by accident? And, if not, what did? So, there is some mystery to the story and a wait for some answers by the end. Other than that, the episode is rather pedestrian. The aliens are presented as ornery bastards for the bulk of the episode and then revert to nice guys at the conclusion, so the whole thing is a bit simplistic. The joking around at the end seems to ignore the devastation and mass death presented on the plague-ridden planet (itself a rare traumatic view of death for the animated series). BoG's Score: 6 out of 10
In this episode, McCoy is accused of starting a plague on a planet 19 years earlier, wiping out the population there. He's to be placed on trial by a race of aliens known for kangaroo courts. Kirk takes the Enterprise over to the planet in question and finds a survivor. This survivor may be the key to vindicating McCoy but, on the way back, the crew all contract the plague (this is evidenced by the afflicted people changing skin color - first to blue; Spock, as usual, seems immune). It's now no longer just a case of saving McCoy but the entire crew.
This has the intriguing question - did McCoy actually cause a plague by accident? And, if not, what did? So, there is some mystery to the story and a wait for some answers by the end. Other than that, the episode is rather pedestrian. The aliens are presented as ornery bastards for the bulk of the episode and then revert to nice guys at the conclusion, so the whole thing is a bit simplistic. The joking around at the end seems to ignore the devastation and mass death presented on the plague-ridden planet (itself a rare traumatic view of death for the animated series). BoG's Score: 6 out of 10
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