Star Trek: Whom Gods Destroy (1969)
Season 3, Episode 14
7/10
Holy Star Trek! Batgirl is Green!
30 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Yvonne Craig (TV's Batgirl) plays a sexy homicidal green Orion Slave Girl who lies about everything. It's a revisit to the insane asylum theme from an earlier episode, "Dagger of the Mind", and even shares some of the same props: a "torture" chair and smocks with the dove-hand control logo. This time, however, the plot is even more lame than before. Again, the inmates revolt and take over the asylum. Crazy inmate Capt. Garth (Lord Garth) has become a shape-shifter and once again, duplicate "Capt. Kirks" are plentiful, as Spock must decide who is the impostor, to save the day. Yvonne plays green "Marta" and she wears very little clothing, which is a reoccurring female theme on Star Trek. Again, Kirk goes "where no man has gone before". (If "Star Trek" was reality, one wonders just how many little toe-headed alien Kirk's would be out there running around in the known universe.) Too slow and "stagey", the episode is draggy and unimaginative, (This would only be rated a "6" were it not for the lovely Yvonne prancing around.)
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