Rating: 2
Investigating a missing starship, the Enterprise finds a planet of former arms dealers who no longer exist – but their legacy is still very dangerous.
Comments
Once again, the theme of the planet being controlled by a huge dumb computer has been explored many times on TOS.
Nits
There are no life signs, just danger – so why are they still sending an away team down to the planet?
Crusher and Picard fall down a hole, but, for some reason, they do not call out for help when their communicators stop working. Strange, that would be the first reaction in the pre-communicator era.
Crusher’s intonations are always weird, but more so here. When she delivers the line, "Ow! My arm hurts!", she puts accents on syllables I have never heard accented before.
After Data jumps into the hole, Yar makes a big point about how the next attack by the automated defense weapon is scheduled to occur very soon according to Data’s calculations, yet when the moment occurs, she and Riker are talking and standing in an open area. A phaser blast just misses them.
The Enterprise looks poor when flying against the light-colored backdrop of the planet.
Quotable Quotes
Riker: The name of my ship? The Lollipop.
Rice: I’m not familiar with that ship.
Riker: It’s just been commissioned; it’s a good ship.
I just thought I'd mention a nit of my own:
ReplyDeleteIt was stated that "someone" scanned the ship's language banks. OK. Fine. I can accept this. However, the RECORDING asked the bridge crew to lock on to his signal and "BEAM" down. Even if the dead civilization had matter transmitters, I doubt they would have used the exact terminology that Starfleet uses.
Otherwise, decent episode but still kinda "wonky" - as are almost all of season 1.