[TOS] The Cloud Minders

[TOS] Season 3, Episode 21: The Cloud Minders

Cloud MindersRating: 2

It seems like the themes of this episode became a little too jumbled up. Their depiction of the planet-bound group is particularly unfocused. It would be one thing if they were a complicated group that did bad things but were oppressed, but in “The Cloud Minders” it feels more like they serve the plot before anything else.

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Notes:

Enterprise visits a planet that has floating cities in the sky

Enterprise visits a planet that has a floating city in the sky.

They come across some trouble. These dudes looks pretty cool

They come across some trouble. These guys have cool glasses.

Kirk and Spock are rescued by some of the people that live in the sky cities. The guards have really terrible costumes

Kirk and Spock are rescued by some of the people that live in the sky city. The guards look… really…. cool.

Droxine: "I have never before met a Vulcan, sir." Spock: "Nor I a work of art, madam."  It's weird that Spock has a love interest, but it's weirder that it seems like it's mostly physical attraction that interests Spock

Droxine: “I have never before met a Vulcan, sir.”
Spock: “Nor I a work of art, madam.”
It’s weird that Spock has a love interest, but it’s weirder that it seems like it’s mostly physical attraction that interests Spock.

A lady tries to attack Kirk while he's sleeping

A lady tries to kidnap Kirk as a hostage.

She is really one of the people that live in the mines on the surface. The sky people are all intellectuals and artists, while the people on the surface are dumb and violent, and just work in the mines

She is really one of the people that live in the mines on the surface. The sky people are all intellectuals and artists, while the people on the surface are dumb and violent, and just work in the mines. But they want to live in the sky city too!

They torture her by turning her a bunch of different colors

They torture her by turning her a bunch of different colors.

Kirk and Spock don't think that's right

Kirk and Spock don’t think that’s right!

Bones explains that the minerals that the miners are refining messes with their brains and that's why they're dumber and more violent

Bones explains that the minerals that the miners are refining messes with their brains and that’s why they’re dumber and more violent.

So they get a mask that will protect the miners

So they get masks that will protect the miners.

Kirk shows the lady the mask, and explains how it will make her people less dumb

Kirk shows the lady the mask, and explains how it will make her people less dumb.

When she takes Kirk to the mines she decides she'd rather kidnap him

When she takes Kirk to the mines she decides she’d rather kidnap him?

Please just straighten the mask.

How quickly did they have to shoot this scene? Could they not stop for a minute to straighten his mask?

Kirk frees himself and starts shooting the walls to block them in.

Kirk frees himself and starts shooting the walls to block them in.

He has the leader of the sky city beamed down so he can understand how the minerals affect a persons brain

He has the leader of the sky city beamed down so he can understand how the minerals affect a person’s brain

It doesn't take long for them to get more violent and dumber

It doesn’t take long for them to get more violent and dumber.

At the end it's implied that negotiations might start between the two groups but it still seems like they totally hate each other

At the end it’s implied that negotiations might start between the two groups but it still seems like they totally hate each other…

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