Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3: Difference between revisions

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306: '''Is There in Truth No Beauty?'''
306: '''Is There in Truth No Beauty?'''
(First watched 2009-04-11)  Hey, Dr. Pulaski!  And she's blind!  Funny how they made such a big deal about how even with an advanced sensor dress, a blind person shouldn't pilot the ship.  A biiit different from [[Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1|the first season of TNG]] when Geordi and his VISOR helmed the Enterprise-D.
I think maybe TOS and I have a language problem.  Sometimes there's a concept that I think I can grasp, but they explain it in what seems an off way.  For instance, I can buy that there's something weird about the Medusans that can cause many humanoids to go insane upon seeing them... but to just repeatedly call that "ugliness".  Come oooon.
The end confused me a bit.  Kirk seemed to be making accusations without certainty, and I wasn't happy with the lack of resolution.  If she ''wasn't'' trying to kill Spock by influencing his mind, he was just being a big asshole.  If she ''was'', it doesn't seem a good idea to just happily send her on her way after she helps him recover.
The Spock/Kollos melding was pretty interesting.  And gives Nimoy one of his few chances to use a very different demeanor with Spock.
Standard Kirk move of the week: When called upon to create a distraction so big that it will distract Dr. Jones from telepathically noticing things... of course Kirk's solution is to try flirting.  Which fails.


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