Star Trek Retrospective: Episode 72 That Which Survives
Lessons can be learned from this episode about not trusting beautiful women who want to touch you for no apparent reason. Of course, I think I would be willing to risk death if a beautiful woman wanted to touch me for any reason up to and including felonious assault so I don’t know if that lesson sank home. However, if you were of a misogynistic nature you would be right at home with this episode and would probably have been a red shirt who survived, unlike poor Wyatt, D’Amato, and Watkins.
Ironically Sulu managed to survive his death touch indicating he might have some immunity to her powers. Given that George Takei is more or less immune to all the female blandishments I guess it makes sense (for the record I am a huge George Takei fan. You should friend him on Facebook. Also if you haven’t had the chance listen to him on the Howard Stern Show. He is awesome). For those of us into women our sex drive could literally be the death of us.
I think this episode used some cool low tech filming techniques to not only show up the three of the hotty (played by the stunning Lee Meriwether (Catwoman from the TV Batman series)) but the two dimensional line transporter was pretty cool too. They didn’t have the massive special effects resources we enjoy today but they did what they could.
By the way I just spent a lot of time looking at Losira images. Good God was she hot. I did a post about why Star Trek women were so stunning a while ago. Lee definitely was on there. Love her costume too (that’s a hint if any hot women are interested in stalking me at the next Star Trek convention in Las Vegas). Not sure if why the felt the need to cover her belly button though. Seems like an odd issue to have. I don’t have any Star Trek t-shirts with Lee on them, but this image is a perfect example of why Star Trek was such a force in the advancement of women’s liberation (It’s OK if McCoy treats these women as objects. You see they were androids and therefore technically were objects. It’s mixed messaged I grew up with like these that made me the well balanced individual you see before you now.)
