The Lights Of Zetar
- The Lights Of Zetar* (Video; YouTube; Memory Alpha) takes the crew to Memory Alpha, namesake of the Star Trek Wikia. But before they get there, a mysterious storm of lights crosses their path and makes the obligitorily beautiful visiting expert feint!
And wouldn’t you know it but the storm did a number on Memory Alpha, too. And it’s gonna come back to finish the job on the Enterprise unless the crew can figure out a way to stop them!
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The lights are the last remnants of Zetar: a collection of noncorporeal echoes of the last survivors of that planet. And they’re slowly taking over the body of Lt. Mira Romaine, whose love of learning is matched only by her love of Scotty. Yes, Scotty.
This episode almost has a nice little freedom speech about the remnant versus Mira, and it almost has a nice discussion on identity, and it almost has a clever solution to destroying a life form native to space, but it lets the ideas wither on the vine and does the life-saving without explaining why it works. The result is an episode that needed one more draft to really shine, but instead just feels like a good idea badly done.
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Grade
B-
