Re: Trek Remastered: The Apple

In article <nebusj.1204704952@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Joseph Nebus) writes:
| The Apple
| The Plot:
| 	The Enterprise officers investigate a primitive society that
| seems to exist to serve a godlike machine; guest David Soul.
| 
| 
| 	You know, this is the episode that people who don't watch Star
| Trek think every episode is like: Kirk barges in to a planet that's
| minding its own business, fondles a scantily dressed woman of atypical
| coloration, and overthrows the society on it for no good reason.  But
| it's atypical in quite a few ways, not least of which that the romance
| subplot is given out to the minor player of Chekov, and there's no
| direct romantic interlude between Enterprise and Weekian folks.

It's also atypical in that it's the only episode where Kirk explicitly
orders an analytical team to examine (and hopefully steal technology
from) the threat of the week.  Unfortunately, Vaal was probably one of
the least sophisticated sources of such technology that they encountered.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]