We've had one review that hated this episode and one review that liked it--and I have to say, this one was really, really, really bad.
The plot is fairly simple - a team of Alphans goes missing, and there's mysterious mist (sorry, that was inadvertent) that apparently blocks sensors (since no one thinks to scan in it for life forms). Koenig and Russell (and later, the rest of their rescue party) follow a trail left by the first team, go into the mist--and, like them, and transformed into cave people. And the mist not only has the power to de-evolve the Alphans, which is fine, it has the ability to affect their clothing and equipment, which is just too much to swallow.
But that's not all. Sandra, part of the third team, is kidnapped by one of the cave people--yet, inexplicably, she herself isn't changed. Things go downhill from there.
What really kills this episode for me is that the cave people, in two or three days, manage to come up with elaborate ways of trapping large prey and even-more-elaborate ritual methods for healing and for execution. I'm no anthropologist, but that seems waaaaaay too fast.
All in all, this is not one I'll ever want to watch again (unlike "Dragon's Domain", which remains my favorite episode of the series).
The plot is fairly simple - a team of Alphans goes missing, and there's mysterious mist (sorry, that was inadvertent) that apparently blocks sensors (since no one thinks to scan in it for life forms). Koenig and Russell (and later, the rest of their rescue party) follow a trail left by the first team, go into the mist--and, like them, and transformed into cave people. And the mist not only has the power to de-evolve the Alphans, which is fine, it has the ability to affect their clothing and equipment, which is just too much to swallow.
But that's not all. Sandra, part of the third team, is kidnapped by one of the cave people--yet, inexplicably, she herself isn't changed. Things go downhill from there.
What really kills this episode for me is that the cave people, in two or three days, manage to come up with elaborate ways of trapping large prey and even-more-elaborate ritual methods for healing and for execution. I'm no anthropologist, but that seems waaaaaay too fast.
All in all, this is not one I'll ever want to watch again (unlike "Dragon's Domain", which remains my favorite episode of the series).