Star Trek – The Original Series, Vol. 33, Episodes 65 & 66: For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky/ Day Of The Dove
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“For the World is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky,” Ep. 65 – Oracle, an unrelenting computer, has control of the Yonada planet, which is really a spaceship. Kirk and crew must free up control or all Yondans will die. “Day of the Dove,” Ep. 66 – The only episode with a female Klingon has the aliens battling Kirk’s crew aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Who is controlling this fight where even fatal wounds heal instantly?
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10:06 pm on December 2nd, 2009
For the World is Hollow… is too lacking in action and has too much melancholy for me. McCoy has two problems… he’s both dying AND in love. If you like love drama, go for it. I’ll pass. Day of the Dove – now that’s action. Many reviews trash it as a weak story line. Perhaps they are right, but it has plenty of hand-to-hand action. Doesn’t hold a candle to many of the 1st and 2nd seasons’ best, but in a dismal 3rd season, this episode stands out as one of the more exciting. Where there are Klingons, there is action!!!
Rating: 3 / 5
12:02 am on December 3rd, 2009
Given that this volume comes from the worst season of classic Trek, this volume comes under the “buyer beware, non-essential viewing” category. In what is actually a touching love story involving Dr. McCoy, the problem lies in the far-fetched storyline. A dying race decides to go cross-galaxy to find a suitable habitat. Questions: why decide to go in a hollowed-out asteroid? Why couldn’t they find a suitable planet without having to travel for thousands of years? Why have a machine take control and keep this mission a secret upon pain of death? This episode just seems to be a shabbily put together one just to have an excuse for a love story; weak indeed.
In the second episode, we get a parable where an entity that feeds upon fear and violence (”A Wolf in the Fold” revisited?) creates and perpetuates ill feelings among the Klingons and the Enterprise crew who have to join forces and literally tell the entity to leave them alone. What’s the moral? The devil feeds on violence and anger and tempts the unsuspecting into perpetually feeding him until you renounce these actions and cast him out.
Rating: 3 / 5
1:53 am on December 3rd, 2009
‘For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky’ may well be one of the reasons that the Original Series was cancelled. It is a very ordinary story which you cannot really feel part of. Yes it does allow McCoy to have a romance, but everything is so uninvolving you feel it is a waste of resources all round. ‘The Day of the Dove’ is much better. It perhaps shows for the first time that there is more to the Klingons than just being the enemy, looking for advantage over the Federation at any opportunity. They only do this of course once they realize that they are being manipulated by a malevolent creature. I gave three stars but by episode it should be 1.5 for the first and 4 for the second.
Rating: 3 / 5
1:54 am on December 3rd, 2009
Volume 33 of the Star Trek DVD series contains two of the third season’s flawed yet decent episodes. Both episodes suffer from Star Trek’s third season syndrome but nonetheless are classics.
FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY finds Kirk, Spock and McCoy venturing to the Yonada planet (which is really a space ship on a collision course with an asteroid). The oracle which is a relentless computer controls the ship and it must be stopped to save the good people of Yonada. Meanwhile McCoy discovers he’s suffering from a disease and only has a year to live. Upon arrival on Yonada, McCoy meets up with Natira (Kate Woodville) and falls in love. This episode marks the first time McCoy ever brushed with romance really. You would think it would be more of a landmark episode but it isn’t really. Mainly cause this plot was done before and way better on THE PARADISE SYNDROME. A nice enjoyable episode but nothing to special here. Average at best.
DAY OF THE DOVE probably should have been a terrible episode of Star Trek because of it was one of the cheapest Star Trek episodes ever produced. However strangely it ended up being one of the third season’s most popular episodes. Probably cause of the presence of Klingons and the fact that most of the episode is packed with action and fighting scenes. The appearance of Mike Ansaras as Kang the Klingon Commander also boosts this episode’s status. However DAY OF THE DOVE suffers from a weak plot line. The idea of a bizarre entity feeding off the hatred of Humans and Klingons is kinda far fetched and the ending of this episode is utterly weak. Although it is a classic and a enjoyable show with Klingons and action and all, but when you get down to the nitty gritty this is an average episode of Star Trek at best.
Overall a nice collection but not really classic. Both episodes are totally watchable though and DAY OF THE DOVE is actually a favourite of many. The appearance of Klingons almost always set the stage for a good Star Trek episode. Highly recommended!
Rating: 4 / 5
4:18 am on December 3rd, 2009
Both the Klingons and Federation are experiencing serious operational disruptions being misdirected by an evil alien force into thinking each is the cause for explosions on the Klingon ship and the death of a 100 people on colony on Beta XII-A.
Writer Marvin Chomsky examines the futility and weak attributes associated with the doctrine of “Balance of Power”. The end design of “Balance of Power” is perpetual warfare, hatred, bloodshed, and waste. Any two groups engaged in the balance of power will migrate between periods of low intensity warfare too sudden castrophic shock waves of violence; power and invisible hand regenerates the conflict by introducing military funding and humanitarian aid; the world sensor of this evil doctrine is mitigated by media blitzs and political negotiations that make the conflict too seemingly to deescalate, for a period.
The Federation members are stirred to hatred including Spock, demonstrated his inability to control the human half which is equally as powerful as his Vulcan ego. Spock lies about how powerful his human side is. A case in point is the “Enterprise Incident” where Dr. Jones must rescue Spock’s human ego that is regressing to the point of death by fear, as Dr. Jones screams, “to the death or life for the both of us.” Chekov believes the Klingons have killed his brother; Uhura reveals later that Chekov never had a brother; McCoy wants Kirk and Spock to act like military men and fight the Klingons. The Klingons capture the away team on the planet and threaten to torture each member one by one until Kirk surrenders the Enterprise. Kirk agrees after Chekov torturing too yield control of the Enterprise. Spock and Scottie manage to capture the Klingons during transport. The remain Klingons are beamed into the brigg. Once the Klingon ship is vacated, the Enterprise destroys the ship. The Klingons distrust the Federation believing they are treacherous and the Klingons will go to death camples. McCoy says, “we know what a Klingon is” suggesting a strong racial hatred. Initially, the numbers are 40 Klingons to 400 Federation, but the alien seals the lower level bulkheads and reduces the numbers to equal. Kirk realizes a problem is emerging and reveals a dangerous fact about “Balance of Power” and that is the doctrine drive men to kill believing they are “revenging an non-existent lose”. Neither side has superior weapons because the alien has transmuted the phrasers into swords and Scottie describes the swords as “a fine collection of antiques”. The Klingons take engineering. Spock detects the alien life force and describes it s pure energy and possesses intelligence and purpose. The Klingons communicate that the bridge life supports have been shut off and they crew will die of suffocation. The alien restores life support. Kirk says, “what is happen tous” and “why are acting like a group of savages”. Weapons, idealogy, racial hatred are used by design to force the two groups to fight. Kirk is baffled about the game and rules to the game. McCoy tells Kirk that life threatening wounds are healing at an astonishing speed. Kirk learns the alien subsists on the emotion of others and the alien acts as a catylst to cause more violent mode of conflict, a constant state of violence, and Kirk realizes that “the fighting must end” or they will continue fighting for a 1000 years. The alien has accelerated the enterprise to warp 9 and the dilithium crystal are deteriating. The Klingons and Federation agree to a temporary truce that weakens the alien. Kirk says, “we must push outward to survive”, “we must stop the endless violence”, “the alien sites back and laughs and the violence starts over again”. The alien is coward. The Federation and Klingons good will drives the alien OUT.
Rating: 5 / 5