Every good Star Trek story has a message.
What is the message of this week's story?
Well it's hard to tell but I guess it's something around "women are
evil vampires who suck all the life energy out of men".
Before you start bashing me or the other evil "cis white male" for
saying something like that, don't forget that the script was written by a woman.
So I honestly don't know whether it was intentional or just bad writing, but all the
women in this episode are either evil, or incompetent, or evil AND incompetent.
The story is not really unique.
I mean every big sci-fi show did it.
I mean in the last week I've seen a similar premise on Agents
of SHIELD and a re-run of Stargate SG1.
A hot woman starts to seduce all our male heroes, they all start to behave
like idiots and the women have save them.
And it's not just a sci-fi thing, even Odyssey had a similar thing with the Syrenes.
If you haven't read the Odyssey, well, what are you waiting for?
This episode starts stupid.
The Enterprise is en route through an unknown sector,
where many Earth and Federation ships have disappeared during the last 150 years.
They even know that a ship disappears here every 27.346 star year.
So the Enterprise is going here.
Alone.
With no backup or plan how to get back.
So basically Kirk is leading the crew on a potential suicide
mission, and for what?
And everybody is OK with it?
Kirk did put his crew to danger several times in the live action show,
but it has always had a good reason.
But this just looks like they were sent there to die, because ... I really don't know.
Of course after the countdown the Enterprise starts to receive a strange signal, which
sound like music.
Again, just like in the Odyssey.
The men start to behave strangely and decide to go check the source of the signal,
a star system 20 light years from there.
While they're going there, the men start to have audio-visual halucinations, and because
of the animation I'm not really sure if the stuff just happens within their minds,
or if other men are supposed to see it too.
They beam down to the planet to a stupid looking architecture, and they meet
a bunch of beautiful blonde women.
Their society is lead by Theela, the Head Female.
They welcome the landing party, and prepare for them something, what looks like a PG
version of an orgy.
However when they try to stand up, they are week.
After a small nap they find out they are 10 years older
and every one of them is wearing a headband.
Meanwhile on the Enterprise because of Scotty's incompetence Uhura takes the command,
and while it sounds like a feminist's wet dream, she doesn't really do anything.
I would assume that she would immediately send down a female-only landing party
to check what's with the men and why are they not responding.
They know that the men were acting strange, they know, the don't
respond, and they know, where did they beam down to, so what are they waiting for?
Meanwhile on the planet McCoy gives everybody a stimulant, now, slightly stronger
they manage to escape.
So what do they do?
They jump into a huge urn.
When the women are close to them, the headbands start to
glow, so Spock theorizes that the headbands somehow literally suck their life energy and
transfer it to the women.
OK so what don't you take them off?
Spock decides to return to the temple, find the communicators
and call the ship.
So... the woman - Uhura took command of the Enterprise, and the
only thing she did was to wait till the man - Spock says her what to do?
This is way too sexist even for me.
So yes, FINALLY Uhura sends down a team consisting of
only women to save the men.
In the hands of a good writer, this could be a really
great scene, but instead we get to see another dumb scene.
After a few stunned women Theela is willing to cooperate, but
she doesn't know where the men are.
They have a huge all-knowing computer, but they did NOT even think about asking him
where the men are?
The Enterprise women need to tell them to do so, when they see
the men trapped inside of something which fills itself with water and they will drown
soon.
So why the hell did they climb inside a huge urn when they can't get out?
Are you trying to tell me that the great James T. Kirk, the biggest hero of the
Federation, will drown inside a huge urn?
I'm wondering why Shatner accepted this, he usually complained when somebody tried
to do something similarly stupid with his character.
By the way how can you drown in something like that?
Shouldn't you be able to swim out when the water level is high
enough?
Theela says that they are probably in one of many of their lakes.
I don't really know what is this supposed to be, if
it's a deliberate lie and she wants them actually dead, or if it's just another stupid
moment, but thankfully "our" women find them and save them.
We then get an exposition scene.
A stupid exposition scene.
Their race came to this planet when their original home planet began
to die.
The men died of all age, but the women evolved and now they can suck the life
out of men, and control them.
But they have to "revitalize" every 27 years.
Now this contains way too many stupid things.
1.
Evolution doesn't work like that.
You don't grow gills when you live in a wet appartment.
Poor Charles Darwin, he must be spinning in his grave.
2.
Men and women belong to the same species.
How is it possible that one gender dies out while the second one learns how to
survive?
3.
They say they are in a prison, because they can't die or age, and behave like they
don't like it.
So why the f... don't you ask your super computer how to build a
spaceship and don't fly away?
You came here from a different planet, which means that
you have spaceships, or know how to build them, or your computer knows it.
Or even better - stop sucking the men!
Their life energy that is.
If you stop "revitalizing" every 27 years, you WILL grow old and die.
So again, where's the f***ing problem?
Anyway, the men are saved, but they're still old.
They try several different methods how to "heal" them, none of them worked.
So Spock has an idea - what if they reprogramme the transporter?
And yes, they reprogramme it and when they re-materialize, they are
young again.
So they basically found a cure for old age and basically the fountain
of youth.
Which is just one of many stupid things.
But when McCoy found a way how to cure death in the JJ movie Star Trek
Into Darkness, fountain of youth doesn't seem too crazy.
And what happens to the evil women?
How will they be punished?
They will be given exactly what they wanted - relocation to another
planet.
So, the moral of the story is girls, you can kill as many people as you
like, if you're pretty will get rewarded.
Do you see why I said that every woman in this story is dumb, evil, or dumb and evil?
But the men are not very wiser.
I understand what Margaret Armen was trying to do, but
this just doesn't work.
There are way too many stupid things in the script.
Even though I like the idea of mixing ancient Greek
mythology with a female empowerment story, the finished episode works only if
you switch off your brain and enjoy the pretty drawings.
I give this episode 5 out of 10.
Good idea, badly executed.
I still enjoyed watching it, but in the same way in
which I enjoyed watching things like the Star Wars Holiday Special.
It's dumb, but entertaining.
Anyway as always these are just MY opinions, do you agree with them or do you think
I'm full of faecal matter?
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