The episode starts off with a red-shirt getting killed, yet only minutes later Chekhov flirts with an Enterprise blonde. Clearly, Chekhov doesn't give a rat's a** about his fellow crewmen! Wonderful stuff...
Speaking of blonds, the Enterprise crew comes across a tribe of extraterrestrial, tanned Swedes. This tribe gives us unusual insight into why the birth-rate has been so low in Sweden: making kids is prohibited. However, there is an essential factor that separates the Scandinavian Swedes from these: the Space Swedes do not even have sex! As for why they're so tanned, I have no idea how a perpetually red sky affects the skin-tone, but even if it doesn't, one can always argue that the tribe goes inside the lizard cave for their daily dozes of tanning; I'm quite sure there is enough space there for a solarium.
If the lizard-cave, Val, is a machine and not a Kilmer then why does it require human food to be brought to it as energy? Should it require oil or something like that? It's also never explained how the machine got there in the first place. Hence there was no reason for Spock to even bring up the infamous Non-interference Directive; evidently someone had already tampered with the Swedes. This directive is the single-most broken rule in Starfleet, methinks.
Spock gives a cringe-worthy speech, filled with barely concealed bitterness, about mankind and their violence. Apart from this illogical attack of emotionalism from him, Spock also inexplicably quotes the Bible - Genesis, to be exact. He talks about the forbidden fruit and all that jazz. Surely Spock, an unemotional scientist, has to be an atheist and as such must realize that the Tree Of Knowledge story represents every religion's opposition to man's scientific and cultural progress.
But I'm ranting now. After all, this is only Star Trek.
TA is a typical ultra-cheesy ST episode, hence a very good one. People whine about Kirk's supposedly atypical behaviour, about the clichés (yet another God-like being that needs to be disposed of), etc, instead of focusing on the wonderful reddish look of the planet and the cheap sets. I've always preferred the interior, obviously fake sets as backdrops for the action, as opposed to on-location filming.
Speaking of blonds, the Enterprise crew comes across a tribe of extraterrestrial, tanned Swedes. This tribe gives us unusual insight into why the birth-rate has been so low in Sweden: making kids is prohibited. However, there is an essential factor that separates the Scandinavian Swedes from these: the Space Swedes do not even have sex! As for why they're so tanned, I have no idea how a perpetually red sky affects the skin-tone, but even if it doesn't, one can always argue that the tribe goes inside the lizard cave for their daily dozes of tanning; I'm quite sure there is enough space there for a solarium.
If the lizard-cave, Val, is a machine and not a Kilmer then why does it require human food to be brought to it as energy? Should it require oil or something like that? It's also never explained how the machine got there in the first place. Hence there was no reason for Spock to even bring up the infamous Non-interference Directive; evidently someone had already tampered with the Swedes. This directive is the single-most broken rule in Starfleet, methinks.
Spock gives a cringe-worthy speech, filled with barely concealed bitterness, about mankind and their violence. Apart from this illogical attack of emotionalism from him, Spock also inexplicably quotes the Bible - Genesis, to be exact. He talks about the forbidden fruit and all that jazz. Surely Spock, an unemotional scientist, has to be an atheist and as such must realize that the Tree Of Knowledge story represents every religion's opposition to man's scientific and cultural progress.
But I'm ranting now. After all, this is only Star Trek.
TA is a typical ultra-cheesy ST episode, hence a very good one. People whine about Kirk's supposedly atypical behaviour, about the clichés (yet another God-like being that needs to be disposed of), etc, instead of focusing on the wonderful reddish look of the planet and the cheap sets. I've always preferred the interior, obviously fake sets as backdrops for the action, as opposed to on-location filming.