Another good episode. From my notes:
- That first encounter with a humanoid was really intense: there was a terrible conviction is his eyes as he spat, “Liar!” and his make-up absolutely hideous.
- I loved the new vocabulary, delivered so non-chalantly.
- The taunting of Spock and the guards in the alleyway gave me chills… And Ring Around The Rosie was a particularly nice (read: grim) touch, given the possible plague; oh, how I hate that rhyme. (I’ve since read that many think that the theory of plague allusions in the rhyme are baseless; interesting, but I still dislike the rhyme.)
- It was around this time that I noticed how much Miri (played by Kim Darby) reminded me of Linda Blair. *shudder*
- Jahn (the leader of the ‘onlies’) was great! Very Lord of the Flies, obviously.
- While trying to find a vaccine was an admirable goal, presumably the only ones it would help at that point would be the remaining crew on the Enterprise (allowing Spock to return at some point) and possibly some of the younger onlies: your body can’t build up antibodies while it’s fighting a disease, as I understand it, anyway. Oh well; minor point. (Again, later research shows that vaccination after a person has been infected is not pointless.)
- I wonder whether this episode made the short list of possible starting points for the script of the second Star Trek feature-length film; there were certainly many loose ends.
