Catspaw
Catspaw (Memory Alpha; SD Video) is kind of a neat idea that’s badly done. A landing party that doesn’t include Kirk, McCoy, or Spock is missing. Kirk, McCoy, and Spock promptly beam down to rescue them.
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What they find are aliens pretending to be wizards who can control everything. They do nothing interesting. They’re here trying to understand sensation. But it turns out that everything they can do is just an illusion. This tourists-looking-for-sensation thing is interesting, but not developed in any way and really serves as pretext instead of being what the whole plot is about.
On the other hand, this is a kind of lame idea, done better than it should be. They come from a land without sensation, but their powers are all about creating illusions, which are pure sensation?
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However, it does have this amazing bit of dialog:
[Disembodied heads warn of danger]
Kirk: Spock, comment.
Spock: Really bad poetry, Captain.
Kirk: A more useful comment, Spock.
Grade
D+; it was sort of interesting, but was pretty thin gruel.
