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| Disc No : | 2.5 | Episode : | 49 | |||||||||||||||
| First Aired : | 19 Jan 1968 | Stardate : | 4307.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Director : | Joseph Pevney | Year : | 2268 | |||||||||||||||
| Writers : | Robert Sabaroff | Season : | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Plotline : | Investigating a mysterious energy draining region, the Enterprise finds a single celled being of colossal size. Can they stop it before it breeds and wipes out the entire galaxy? Of course they can! | |||||||||||||||||
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| Analysis : | Great special effects for the time. | |||||||||||||||||
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| YATI : | Why do they set the antimatter charge to detonate after seven minutes? This is just barely enough time for them to escape, yet there is never any reason given why they couldn't make it ten minutes, or ten hours for that matter. Spock states that the creature is invading our galaxy "like a virus". A Virus reproduces by injecting DNA into the cells of the host and reprogramming them to produce more viruses. This creature is a fully functional cell, capable of reproducing itself. So in point of fact the creature is invading our galaxy like a bacteria, not a virus. |
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| Great Moment : | The special effects in this episode deserve a mention - they were amongst the best ever done for television at the time. | |||||||||||||||||
| Body Count : | The enitre crew of the USS Intrepid and the alien creature. | |||||||||||||||||
| Factoid : | The planet Vulcan has not been conquered in its collective memory, according to Spock. | |||||||||||||||||
| Quote : | "We're on a difficult mission, but it's not the first time. Our orders do not say 'stay alive' or 'retreat'. Our mission is to investigate." - Kirk to crew. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Images : | Sci-tech Probe 
Species Amoeba 
People Pavel A. Chekov 
Internals Constitution Class Conference Room #4 
General Images DITL General Image #13 |
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