November 2010
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Elaan of Troyius
Elaan of Troyius (Video; Memory Alpha) is a mediocre episode with one awesome scene. In a disputed star system on the border between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, two warring planets are ready to forge a peace with a marriage.
There’s some stuff that’s supposed to be funny with the bride not wanting to go and being a savage barbarian and Kirk telling her what-for, but it...
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The Empath (Video; Memory Alpha) is terrible. It’s the old away-team-captured-by-aliens-on-a-planet-that-they-thought-was-abandoned schtick, complete with big-headed aliens performing a mysterious experiment.
Added to the boring retread is the fact that they use the term “empath” completely incorrectly. The titular empath doesn’t feel others’ emotions, but instead...
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Wink of an Eye
Wink of an Eye (Video; Memory Alpha) finds Scotty in charge of the ship with Kirk in an abandoned city that the sensors say doesn’t exist. When suddenly, a redshirt disappears!
The crew goes back to the Enterprise, but a lot of crazy stuff is going on. Systems are turning off and righting themselves, things are being moved around by no one, and everywhere there’s a weird buzzing...