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Decent review, forgettable episode. I seem to recall Scotty summing up the whole thing as "a wee bit of trouble" in Relics.

More interestingly, our resident Irish supercomputer has a week to get his finger out, or Chuck will beat him to it. Who'd have thunk it?

Captain Seafort wrote:Who'd have thunk it?

I just about lost it when he spliced in footage from Bread and Circuses .

Yeah, that was great.

For the episode, once Hengist was revealed as Redjac and Kirk started having the crew tranqued, it lost all seriousness for me. Especially that goofy as all hell smile Sulu got.

"I know the place!"

This ep, for me, was the very height of "meh." Not even the same league as some of the TOS greats like "City on the Edge of Forever" or "For the World is Hollow...," but nowhere near the depths of "Catspaw" or "Spock's Brain." Decent idea, of an almost Lovecraftian SF take on the outre "reality" behind popular mythology, but just flat in execution.

I kind of like the basic idea of a murder in which the killer turns out to be what's essentially a supernatural entity and the shift into how to combat that. The resolution is kind of goofy and the lighthearted tone of it doesn't sit well with a horror-type premise.

And oh my, the sexism. A woman caused the accident and so Scotty may well develop a hatred of all women, and that hatred is so deep that he could be murdering them? Not to mention women being "more easily terrified" than men. I know it was the sixties, but wow.

I never liked this episode all that much, and I liked it even less when Voyager redid it.