I have loved this immersive and nostalgic experience made all the more enjoyable with your intelligent and hilarious reviews :. Post a Comment. Tags: Ben P. Duck , Billie Doux , Star Trek. It looked like the rocks, ground and people where shaking independently maybe a stevedore behind each rock jiggling them around?
Also, what exactly did Scotty end up doing with his magnetic wrench? Just shoving it into the antimatter stream fixed the fused warp speed accelerator? Ship reassembled out of phase? Seems overly silly. Hope Scotty ordered all the wrenches be re-greased after his got stuck. I missed the one shot of the Enterprise barrelling head on at the camera—that should have been remastered.
What was that thing Spock picked up from the navigation console and carried for the rest of the show? Inline Feedbacks. The Vulcanista. March 16, pm. Harry Ballz. Lee Meriweather……………growrrr!! Great Scotty episode. And nice to see him play off of Spock. New effects were nice. Nothing special here, though. Thought the new planet really added to the episode. Well done. Heywood Jablomee. Katie G.
I am for you, Mr. Poopey face… Nah. Sorry dude. Excellent Scotty episode. I agree, RetroWarbird. I am for you, James T. Not everyone went down on the Titanic. March 17, am. Also a rare movement in the transporter beam that was also a nice one. Both contain the following elements: A murderous super-computer conflicted by its own emotions. An ancient alien force capable of instantly propelling a spacecraft vast distances. Wow — you guys are harsh.
Always enjoyed this episode. Beauty survives. The adventure continues…. It should be noted that Majel Barrett only appears as Christine Chapel in five of the final twelve episodes of the season, as compared to eight of the first twelve. These little touches and humour speak to the strengths of That Which Survives , an episode that uses a very simple story to offer a contemplative meditation on mortality.
There is an impressive funereal tone suffused through the episode, a mournful reflection. It seems like something that really affects the three survivors of the attack, unlike the red shirt deaths most typically featured on the show. Upon finding the body, Kirk takes out his phaser. Of course, this whole sequence serves a very clear plot purpose. Indeed, Losira herself is cast in a role clearly equivalent to death.
Her name evokes the Egyptian deity Osiris, the goddess of the afterlife. She serves a similar function here, appearing to individual members of the away team. She knows them by name. She acts as if she has come to collect them. Losira is played by Lee Meriwether. In fact, That Which Survives is the first of three consecutive episodes to feature a prominent guest star who also appeared on Batman! Meriwether described the role of Losira as a great challenge :. It was extremely difficult to play Losira because she was a computerized image, but she had a soul.
She had been, when she was alive, really a wonderful, compassionate commander of the Kalandans and cared for her people so much, which you found out at the very end of the episode. So, playing Losira was a great challenge. The result is that Losira is at once both herself and not herself; she is a ghost haunting the planet, but a ghost that is alien even to herself.
It perfectly captures the strange haunted quality of the episode. That said, this is the third season, so there is some rather strange ambient sexism in how That Which Survives approaches Losira. Losira works quite well as a metaphor for the legacy of war.
She is an automated defense system on a world long abandoned. The parallels are obvious. Losira would seem to be a metaphor for the legacy of warfare, the consequences of violence that linger on long after the direct aggression has ceased. Losira is a science-fiction spin on the idea of landmines or unexploded ordinance. Although the anti-landmine movement had yet to galvanise, these weapons would exist as a legacy of the War in Vietnam long after the United States eventually deescalated the conflict :.
The Vietnamese government estimates that around 14m tonnes of ordnance, nearly three times that used by the Allies in the second world war, was dropped on Vietnam between and According to the most recent official figures, explosions caused by buried bombs and mines claimed around , civilian victims between and Indeed, even the process of minimising and removing this threat might have dire consequences.
There are fears that the removing all of these mines and ordinance might expose undisturbed deposits of Agent Orange, which would then work their way back into the eco-system. It is no exaggeration to say that the Vietnam War is still killing people , even half a century later. It is another example of how the third season of Star Trek seems to be preparing the franchise for later resurrection. The basic premise of That Which Survives would find itself recycled for the first season of The Next Generation , albeit in a clunkier and more heavy-handed fashion.
The moral of That Which Survives is reserved for the final scene, while The Arsenal of Freedom blares it at full volume from the teaser. At this point in its run, Star Trek is not dying. Star Trek is dead. It has been dead from the moment that Kirk found himself cast in the role of Ike Clanton in Spectre of the Gun. It was probably dead at the point where Gene Roddenberry turned the cast into guest stars in a thinly-disguised pilot back in Assignment: Earth.
Half-way through the third season, Star Trek has been dead a very long time. The supply ship that she was waiting for never came. This is an episode where the primary guest star died thousands of years before the episode begins. This haunted and funereal quality is reflected in a number of other ways. Most obviously, there is the strong purple colouring that saturates the episode. Star Trek always had a strong distinctive style, as demonstrated by episodes like Spectre of the Gun and The Empath.
Indeed, the show featured countless worlds with skies in many colours. I want to touch you. I'm gay Sulu: "How can such evil BE, Captain?!
She's so beautiful Evil only comes from ugly people. Sulu: "I'd rather be on the Enterprise. I'd rather rest my head between Uhura's massive pillows now than be fighting aliens on this damn planet.
The cranky side of Spock, that we didn't even know existed until TWS, really comes into the forefront in this episode. Perhaps male Vulcans have their period every seven years? No-one was safe from Spock's venomous ripostes. Examples: 1. When Uhura asks "what happened? He was still warming up for the upcoming sarcastic remarks. Uhura: "How did she get off the ship, sir? Sick-bay Doctor: "Your guess is as good as mine, Mr.
Uhura: "What are the chances the Captain and the others are still alive? Meriwether, looking vaguely Raquel Welchian, going around killing people in spite of feeling ambivalent about hurting them is a bit amusing, too. The wishy-washiest killer of them all. At the end, Kirk and co. Apart from bombarding the viewer with unintentional nonsense every single minute, TWS is also a visually high-quality episode, with great sets and wonderfully bombastic 60s colours.
The Losira-gets-folded special effect is very effective. Enterprise sends an away team to a planet before they are seemingly separated by thousands of light years. This is a relatively poor episode that to me is devoid of tension and has no real memorable character moments. I'll start positively and compliment the basic premise of the story, which is good.
Enterprise and the away team appear to be in dangerous situations due to the distance apart and violent threat. However, everything unfolds in a series of mostly uninspired visuals and exchanges of dialogue. Probably the most frustrating moments of the episode for me are the scenes involving Losira which are devoid of any real life and contain very slow, ponderous physical movement. They also feel quite repetitive which makes it seem worse. This kills any sense of threat, suspense and urgency about their situation.
The scenes on board Enterprise are not much better, mainly because the emphasis is on Spock repeatedly correcting everybody's inaccuracies and commenting on human behaviour. These moments distract from the story and ruin any potential intrigue the problem faced by the crew. One aspect of this plot thread I do find refreshing is the prominent roles of non regular crew members. There are some visuals that work okay, particularly Scotty inside the Jeffries tube and the basic design of the planet, such as the purple skyline, but nothing is particularly memorable.
Most performances are decent enough, but the actors appear to me to be going through the motions. Samuel-Shovel 17 August In "That Which Survives", the Enterprise beams down a landing party to a bizarre unexplored planet. After Kirk, Bones, Sulu, and a geologist head down, the Enterprise is inexplicably hurled across 1, light years of space. Both parties assume the other have been destroyed. The landing party tries to figure out a way to survive on this poisonous planet.
But a strange woman continues to pop up on both the Enterprise and the surface of the planet. Her touch is deadly, but only if she means to exterminate you!
She's programmed to disrupt one person's specific cells and can only kill that person, otherwise she's useless. After learning this, the landing party can defend themselves.
Sadly, the geologist dies. The landing party finds a computer system creating these women. It's rigged to explode until some quick thinking from Scotty and Spock. They show up at the planet just in time to save the landing crew and destroy the computer which turns out to be an automated defense system left by an extinct race. Spock is my favorite character from The Original Series. I love him. That being said He's hot dogging it all over the place during this episode.
He's extremely snarky and over the top with his Vulcan-iness. I'm glad he's normally not turned up to 11 like this. Regarding the rest of the episode, it's not laughably bad or anything. It's just lazy. They don't try anything exciting, there's nothing fun going on here. The writers, the actors, the director, everyone is just phoning it in here.
I'm sensing a bit of fatigue here in Season 3 as we near the end. With limited budget and bad scripts, I can't say I blame them. Bogmeister 5 March This is a typically sub-average episode of the 3rd season and since the 3rd season was not very good compared to the 1st and 2nd seasons, well, you can see where this is going.
There appears to be some mystery, action, tension and sf adventure thrown into the mix here but none of it adds up to much by the end.
The Enterprise arrives at a planet which even Spock can't explain: it's about the size of our moon but has Earth's characteristics. Kirk beams down with McCoy, Sulu and a geologist uh-oh, expendable red-shirt alert and the ship is immediately transported nearly light years away. This amazing act of displacement is never really explained. Several 3rd season episodes had such nonsensical contrivances to the plot: this seems an excuse to have a separate storyline on the ship while the landing party struggles to survive on the planet.
But, they're zero for two in this one: neither the 'A' or 'B' storyline is up to snuff - slow going in both. On both the planet and the ship, the crew are stalked and killed by what seems to be a female hologram Meriwether ; they don't refer to it as a hologram, but that's what it seems like to me - an early version of the holodeck from the TNG show.
This female disrupts all the cells of a body simply by touching that person; she announces beforehand who she's for, i. Spock is never more annoying than in this episode; in command of the ship for most of the episode, he takes every opportunity to lecture the other crew members on how illogical they are.
This does turn out to be an intriguing comparison to how the ship is usually run by Kirk. Check out Uhura's annoyed expression when he lectures her about gambling. And, of course, Spock's verbal attacks on Scotty are never ending; I'm surprised there were no whispers of mutiny by the time they got back to the planet.
This repartee is all mildly entertaining but the story is tedious overall, with no interesting revelations about the ancient outpost of a planet or the attacking femme fatale.
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