In which one of Gene's weird sex fantasies becomes a Saturday morning cartoon.
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| Me, when I read the plot of this episode. |
So, there are two stories happening here. One is very good, the other... isn't. The Enterprise is investigating a series of mysterious ship disappearances when Uhura intercepts a radio signal. It's strange music that is making all the dudes on the ship hallucinate beautiful women. They trace the signal to some planet or another and Kirk gets together an away team to investigate. Uhura, meanwhile has no clue why the guys are acting like this, so she gets together with Nurse Chapel to get some answers.
The stuff on the planet. It's just fucking dumb. It's a planet of succubi, basically. The beautiful women drug Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Ensign Expendable. Then they put these tiaras on them and start sucking out their life energy. It turns them into old men. Then Kirk hides in a pot. Seriously. Like it's Super Mario 2 over here. Spock gets out of the pot and finds a communicator, so he can call the ship and get help.
Meanwhile, up on the ship, Scotty is drunk. He's just sitting in the captain's char with a big goofy smile on his face singing an old Scottish drinking song. So Uhura says "Fuck this" and takes command. She and Chapel figure out that something on the planet is hypmotizing the guys. Then she leads an all female security team down to the planet and starts blasting everyone with phasers. It's pretty badass. Then it starts to rain. And since Kirk and Bones are still in a pot, it starts filling up with water and they might drown. That part isn't quite as badass. Uhura just keeps on shooting shit until all her problems are solved. Then some transporter magic makes the crew their proper age.
Meanwhile, up on the ship, Scotty is drunk. He's just sitting in the captain's char with a big goofy smile on his face singing an old Scottish drinking song. So Uhura says "Fuck this" and takes command. She and Chapel figure out that something on the planet is hypmotizing the guys. Then she leads an all female security team down to the planet and starts blasting everyone with phasers. It's pretty badass. Then it starts to rain. And since Kirk and Bones are still in a pot, it starts filling up with water and they might drown. That part isn't quite as badass. Uhura just keeps on shooting shit until all her problems are solved. Then some transporter magic makes the crew their proper age.
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| I swear I've had dreams like this |
- For that other time the crew got old, see the TOS episode The Deadly Years, the TNG episodes Unnatural Selection and Man of the People, the DS9 episode Distant Voices and like every third Voyager.
- Old McCoy actually looks a lot like Old DeForest Kelley. Old Kirk looks like Regis Philbin.
- A little behind the scenes info here. It was a pretty big deal to get all of the original cast back to do this cartoon, but it means that the couldn't really afford to hire anyone else to do voices. Which means we get a few unintentionally hilarious sequences like when Uhura is talking to a blond crewmember who sounds exactly like Nichelle Nichols.
- Strangely enough, this is the only time in the first 50 years of Star Trek that Majel Barrett wasn't the voice of the computer.
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| Lllllllllllladies |
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