Star Trek Retrospective: Episode 67 the Empath
This is another episode that was banned by the BBC for sadistic elements and I don’t necessarily disagree with them. It seems an alien race capable of transportation technology would be capable of creating some kind of VR or cloning creatures for their torture tests. How about using some of the other millions of inhabitants of the Gem’s world rather than shanghai some hapless scientists and our favorite command crew? Sounds way more fair. Also Gem’s planet is one of several inhabited worlds in the system but no one seems to be shedding any tears about the other planets. Where they all inhabited by flatulence monsters?
All that being said I do like this episode a lot if only because it shows the incredible loyalty that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy had for each other. Like I said in a very personal Star Trek post earlier most everything I learned as a kid about honor and loyalty I got from TOS and this episode taught me a lot about how to be a friend.
Also Gem (the lovely Kathryn Hays) was drop dead gorgeous and couldn’t speak at all. The perfect woman, right? And I wonder why I have trouble in my dating life. (problem solved image courtesy of the Funny T Shirt category) She was a regular on As the World Turns and Guiding Light, but honestly my mom only watched Days of Our Lives so I never got to see her perform. Since she didn’t speak in this episode for all I know she had a high helium squeaky dolphin voice. That might have been a little weird.
Dave
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