Rating: 2–
There’s been a pattern of mass insanity with a line of planets. The next planet in line is Deneva, so they head there.
They see a ship fly into a sun
Kirk’s brother Sam lives on Deneva!
They beam down and come across a gang of shouting people wielding glass tubes
Sam died!
They encounter some things stuck to the wall!
One of them attaches itself to Spock!
Spock flips out and tries to take control of the ship
Spock says he’s sorry and he won’t do it again
At first they make you think Spock was losing it again, but it turns out he was just going on a mission…without telling anyone…and he was willing to assault fellow officers to do it.
Spock grabs one of the little guys
It’s a big brain cell
If they can’t find a way of killing the creatures without killing the people, then Kirk has to kill all the people to stop the spread of insanity!
They think light might kill them. “1 million candles per square inch”. Do they really use candle light as a unit of measurement?
You gotta go through the door one at a time guys
Several times during this episode this conversation seems to happen: Kirk/Spock: “We have to do this. It’s the only way” Bones: “Are you mad? We can’t do that!” Kirk/Spock: “It’s the only way.” Bones: “…Ok” (paraphrasing)
They wear some cool glasses
Spock comes out of the test chamber, says it killed the thing inside him, and starts to walk across the room. When he runs into a table he admits he’s blind. Was he going to see how long he could fake it?
Before they blinded Spock they sent Chapel to do tests on the brain cell thing. She comes back with results showing they didn’t need to blind Spock. Hey maybe you should’ve waited a few minutes guys.
Spock isn’t blind anymore! He forgot about his other eyelids
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