If you can get through it, there's lots of fun goofy stuff thrown in (intentionally or otherwise) to flesh out one of Roddenberry's less-subtle lowest-budget Major Message episodes. Yes, the awful wigs and wardrobe, the hilarious mugatos (mugato's gonna getcha if you don't watch out), that wicked fake-hippie witchy woman (false lashes, frosted lipstick, fake fur and bellbottoms!)... But we get interesting particulars on Vulcans; when Spock catches a longrifle ball, yes! He bleeds green (though it's been pointed out that no wound is visible; really, it looks like he got sloppy with a lime Slurpy), and McCoy remarks that what saved him was having his liver where his heart should be. Then there's all about Vulcan self-healing, and how when a recovering Vulcan regains consciousness whoever is present must do EXACTLY WHAT THE VULCAN SAYS or else!
This is surely one of the episodes where you can imagine some one remarking "why do we even bother exploring space when these planets all turn out to look like Southern California?"
This is surely one of the episodes where you can imagine some one remarking "why do we even bother exploring space when these planets all turn out to look like Southern California?"