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203: '''The Changeling''' ''[[1967]] [[September 29]]''
203: '''The Changeling''' ''[[1967]] [[September 29]]''
A lost Earth probe that merges with something else to have a dangerous change of mission?  [[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Hmm, where have I seen that before]]?
Nomad's merging was very weird.  Rather than whole pieces of information gone, it ''half''-remembered everything.  Like that Captain Kirk sounded a little like its creator Roykirk.  Or its original mission of "Seek out life" plus the alien probe's mission of "sterilize soil samples" merged into "Seek out life, and sterilize if imperfect"?
Maybe the writers didn't properly put into words what they meant, but what was going on with Uhura just seemed wrong.  Nomad talks  of wiping her memory... and their thought is that without brain damage they can reeducate her?  Now, maybe it would've been more appropriate to compare what had happened to a stroke or something, where with therapy they could help her reconnect with her old self again.  But as stated it just seemed like she became a blank slate, and through fancy education techniques they would turn her into a working officer again within a few weeks.
Somehow Kirk's joking about Nomad at the end seems inappropriate.  "My son, the doctor!"  After it vaporized four of the crew it doesn't seem like the kind of thing to say.


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