No sign of McCoy's love interest from the last episode. She was getting all possessive there at the end, but apparently McCoy is like Jay-Z, gonna love 'em and leave 'em. Ever wonder where he got that hook that's so freakin' catchy? Right here.
In this episode, 7 crew members get stranded in a shuttlecraft and because of some sort of ionic radiation the Enterprise can't find them. Who's in this crew? Well, we have 4 random extras and Spock, McCoy and Scotty. Yes, that's right, they sent the first officer, the chief doctor and the chief engineer off on a dangerous mission into space together. 'Cause that makes sense.
Okay, you know the drill. Jump, fun, etc.
Also on board the Enterprise for some sort of fancy medical mission is a "Galactic High Commissioner"? Anyway, there's something wrong with him, when they find out the crew is missing he seems to almost smile and is certainly very smug. He'll need watching.
Spock seems pretty competent once they crash land on the planet.
The commissioner is a complete jerk trying to talk Kirk into abandoning them because he doesn't think he'll find them before they have to leave in order to keep a rendezvous.
They fancied up some styrofoam cups by painting them blue in order to have space coffee cups.
The two crewmen sent to scout the area immediately around the crashed shuttle didn't obey orders and stay close and one of them paid for it by getting a 15 foot spear in the back. On the bright side, they no longer have to leave three people behind. The spear itself is ridiculous and clearly not actually wood and stone from the way it moves. It looks like something from a Goliath Halloween costume.
Everybody's getting all fed up with Spock not being emotional, which seems silly. I'd think it would be a valuable trait to not be too emotional in a trying circumstance.
Now that one person is dead and McCoy and the not-so-fetching-as-the-others yeoman found some weight to leave behind, Spock will choose to leave himself behind even though everyone else is expecting that he'll choose others.
Spock seems to get a bit emotional, he's been shouting at people a fair bit in this episode.
They talk about not being able to maintain orbit once they get off the surface, but they talk about then dying as a result of friction in the atmosphere. Why didn't they die the first time when they crash-landed.
Well, Spock's record as commander just got worse. He left one man alone to guard the approaches and he just seemed to get eaten by one of the monsters. Oh, wait, no. He's dead on a rock, or maybe just fainted.
Too funny, the "attacks" by the giants are basically having more copies of the giant plastic spears dropped near Spock as he carries the crewman back to the shuttle. I don't think I can adequately convey how unconvincing it all was.
This episode wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the contrived tension between Spock and the rest of the crew with him.
Spock takes one last action that everyone calls illogical and he agrees, and, of course, that turns out to be the one that saves them.
"...[H]e just seemed to get eaten by one of the monsters. Oh, wait, no. He's dead on a rock, or maybe just fainted." Or he stubbed his toe, or had to pay his cable bill.
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