Scotty is as happy as a haggis doing the highland fling, having fallen head over heels for sexy Lieutenant Mira Romaine (Jan Shutan, 12 years James Doohan's junior), who has been assigned to planetoid Memory Alpha, home to the Federation's central library. Unfortunately, en route to Memory Alpha, the Enterprise encounters a cloud of sparkly non-corporeal aliens who enter Romaine's body. Scotty isn't happy that they beat him to it.
Ventriloquist Shari Lewis was far better suited to writing comedy material for her sock-puppet Lamb Chop than a script for Star Trek (she co-wrote this travesty with her husband Jeremy Tarcher). I think the only reason The Lights of Zetar made the cut was because the show was already on its last legs and nobody really cared any more. This is an uninspired, forgettable adventure, with yet another cheesy visual effect causing problems for Kirk and his crew. The final scene, in which Mira is placed in a pressure chamber to expel the aliens, is one of the most lacklustre endings of all Star Trek TOS episodes.
3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for lovely Ms. Shutan.
Ventriloquist Shari Lewis was far better suited to writing comedy material for her sock-puppet Lamb Chop than a script for Star Trek (she co-wrote this travesty with her husband Jeremy Tarcher). I think the only reason The Lights of Zetar made the cut was because the show was already on its last legs and nobody really cared any more. This is an uninspired, forgettable adventure, with yet another cheesy visual effect causing problems for Kirk and his crew. The final scene, in which Mira is placed in a pressure chamber to expel the aliens, is one of the most lacklustre endings of all Star Trek TOS episodes.
3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for lovely Ms. Shutan.