125- Devil in the Dark:-Premise: The crew is sent to assist a mining colony where the miners have been attacked by an unknown creature in the caves.
-Quest Comments: This episode could be summarized with three words- "Turn! Zoom! Scream!". As each time the creaure attacks, they turn at the camera, which then zooms right at them as they scream. Everytime,e xactly the same way.
Actually not a bad episode overall, except that the spheres-are-eggs element is made way too obvious the moment Spock first remarks about them near the episode's start. Also, for a creature so set on protecting it's eggs, it's rather odd that it would cause a cave-in in an area containing some of the eggs.
"Average".
And remember- "Turn! Zoom! Scream!"
126- Errand of Mercy:-Premise: The Enterprise must help bring a strageticly located planet to the side of the Federation before the Klingons can.
-T2Q Comments: This was a pretty good episode, once one gets past the old smooth foreheaded Klingon look (thankfully explained in a two-parter on Enterprise, at least).
Kor is an interesting villian (one who apparantly made a few appearances on DS9, played by the same actor- who, it took me awhile to realize, was the same actor who played Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica), though the Organians likely being powerful beings was too obvious (though perhaps it's not so bad, if taken in the context of the Trek sgaa being viewed in chronological order, where an episode of Enterprise has already revealed the Organians as powerful beings).
And Kirk was a bit too bull-headed (even he should have been smart enough to maintain a more convincing cover for more than 30 seconds).
Also, Kirk's comment at the end that "we think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe- it's unsettling to discover that we're wrong" is just a damn odd one to hear since they've met at least a half-dozen beings more powerful than humans in this season alone.
Still, given the Kor, Klingon and Organian connections to the greater mythos, not to mention being pretty watchable, this episode is "Definitely Essential."
(images via Memory-Alpha: The Star Trek Wiki)
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