{"id":4292,"date":"2014-01-09T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/218-The-Immunity-Syndrome"},"modified":"2014-01-09T07:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:43:47","slug":"218-the-immunity-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/09\/218-the-immunity-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"2.18 &#8212; \u201cThe Immunity Syndrome&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2.18 &#8212; \u201cThe Immunity Syndrome&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Plot:<\/strong> The <em>Enterprise<\/em> is diverted to Gamma VII-A to investigate the sudden death of the entire solar system, its billions of inhabitants, and the loss of the Vulcan starship <em>Intrepid<\/em>, which was patrolling the area. Arriving there, they find a hole in space, which turns out to have been created by a giant single-celled organism, 11,000 miles across, which is larger than the diameter of Earth. The massive unicellular organism sucks energy from the ship and lifeforce from its crew, leaving them in desperate circumstances with a limited time to survive. Kirk must decide whether to send Spock or McCoy on a suicide mission on the shuttlecraft to explore the center of the creature\u00a0and try to find a way to destroy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> There are some great lines in this episode, especially the starchy dialogue between Spock and McCoy. Even when Spock is near death having turned down the shuttlecraft life support systems, he takes the time to get another dig in. \u201cShut up, Spock, we\u2019re rescuing you.\u201d Great moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spock\u2019s explanation about how Vulcans can&#8217;t understand death because their planet has never been conquered sounds important, but is completely Incomprehensible. Memory Alpha points out that McCoy referred to Vulcan being conquered in &#8220;The Conscience of the King.&#8221; Silly Vulcans, they can&#8217;t make up their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amoeba looks good. This is a fairly apocalyptic episode, with death everywhere! Billions of native lifeforms, 400 Vulcans, either Spock or McCoy, the organism itself.\u00a0Still, I found it hard to get sucked in. The episode moves slowly, the drama is turgid and sometimes overwrought, and the countdown clock is poorly managed. I perked up for Spock&#8217;s scenes in the shuttlecraft and his duel with McCoy over who will get the privilege of dying for the <em>Enterprise<\/em>. I\u2019m not sure I could be that noble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spock\u2019s dialogue sensing the deaths of the Vulcans aboard the <em>Intrepid<\/em> presages Obi-Wan Kenobi sensing the deaths of all the lives on Alderaan. When I grew up, it was Star Trek vs. Star Wars, so it&#8217;s a little weird thinking of George Lucas as a Trek fan, paying tribute to his favorite bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last three episodes, \u201cThe Gamesters of Triskelion,\u201d \u201cA Piece of the Action,\u201d and this, could hardly be more different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are all the patients in sickbay female?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Um, and how much double entendre can you stand? \u201cThe area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive.\u201d Oh, myyyyy. The shuttlecraft is basically a sperm in this story, right? They could have done more with this metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 out of 5 really big chromosomes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        2.18 &#8212; \u201cThe Immunity Syndrome&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-tos-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}