markp@tekmdp.UUCP (Mark Paulin) (09/16/83)
I'll bet you are remembering "The Omega Glory", a particularly bad episode in my opinion. Ranks right up there with "The Way to Eden" on my list of loser episodes, but at least "Eden" gives us Chekov's full name -- anyone know it? Anyway, what the Enterprise people find this time is an example of parallel development, where the "Yangs" (Yankees) and the "Com's" (Communists -- sounds like "combs") are still sluggin' it out centuries after they have forgotten what they were fighting about. There's a Federation baddie on this planet and he tries to convince the people that Spock is a devil, but Kirk reminds them that according to their tradition Good always is stronger than Evil, and then proceeds to kick the guy's ass. God bless America! Oh, brother. Too bad our local Portland station has stopped running Star Trek. But hey, we get "Wonder Woman" now -- who am I to complain? :-( On the subject of "Yesterday's Son" by A. C. Crispin, I enjoyed the book, but I must agree that Spock acted illogically in the treatment of his son. Yet on the other hand, I thought she did capture the speech patterns of the characters quite well -- I could almost hear them speak in my mind's ear. A slight spoiler -- I speculate that the limited telepathic abilities of the people of Sarpedion may be the product of Spock's genes in the pool... On the subject of ST books, I really enjoyed "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. These books treat the possibility of using a modified transporter effect to make duplicate people, and to provide new bodies for the dead... Also Kirk and Spock finally meet an enemy who is a worthy opponent for the two of them together. The books look at the question of McCoy's soul -- he thinks that he died the first time he was transported, ie that his soul never found its way into his new body... Mark Paulin ...tektronix!tekmdp!markp