In this episode we find the starship Enterprise deep in trouble with an epidemic that is taking over the crew. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to a private planet where the inhabitant and owner James Daly at first is most inhospitable. After a while though he gets a bit friendlier with the Enterprise away team and offers them the hospitality of his estate. Charles Foster Kane's Xanadu has nothing on the digs Daly has constructed on his own planet.
There is also a girl there played by Louise Sorel who is Daly's ward and he seems to be pushing her to be with Kirk and Kirk being human responds in kind. Spock has to remind him constantly that they are there to get a needed ingredient for an antidote to the Enterprise epidemic.
As it turns out Daly is a most extraordinary individual, a man over 6000 years old, an immortal that Duncan MacLeod of the clan MacLeod has nothing on. When Spock discovers some of what Daly has in his possession, Daly confesses that at times in earth's history he's been Leonardo DaVinci, Johannes Brahms, Methuselah and a few others known and not known. You get 6000 year under your belt you can make and lose a lot of fortunes.
What is also involved is that your life experiences are an incalculable figure. They've made Daly quite understandably cynical far more than most. He's on his private planet and he's using the Enterprise away team in his own experiment, especially Kirk. What that experiment is and the result is for you to see.
There are some obviously flaws and I could be picky and point them out. But the players do a splendid job in making you suspend your disbelief.
There is also a girl there played by Louise Sorel who is Daly's ward and he seems to be pushing her to be with Kirk and Kirk being human responds in kind. Spock has to remind him constantly that they are there to get a needed ingredient for an antidote to the Enterprise epidemic.
As it turns out Daly is a most extraordinary individual, a man over 6000 years old, an immortal that Duncan MacLeod of the clan MacLeod has nothing on. When Spock discovers some of what Daly has in his possession, Daly confesses that at times in earth's history he's been Leonardo DaVinci, Johannes Brahms, Methuselah and a few others known and not known. You get 6000 year under your belt you can make and lose a lot of fortunes.
What is also involved is that your life experiences are an incalculable figure. They've made Daly quite understandably cynical far more than most. He's on his private planet and he's using the Enterprise away team in his own experiment, especially Kirk. What that experiment is and the result is for you to see.
There are some obviously flaws and I could be picky and point them out. But the players do a splendid job in making you suspend your disbelief.