[net.sf-lovers] Shapechangers

brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown) (07/19/85)

In article <2512@topaz.ARPA> JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA writes:
>About shapechangers in Star Trek.  Besides Garth, there were the
>two 'magicians.'  I don't remember the name of the episode, but Sulu,
>McCoy, Kirk, Spock, and a few Red-shirts were captured by shapechanged
>aliens.  At the end of the show they turned out to be small, blue
>green critters that were a cross between a starfish, an amoeba, and a
>chicken.
>					orstcs/richardt

It was "Catspaw", the characters were Korob and Sylvia.  The Kelvans in
"By Any Other Name" were also shapechangers.  

ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) (07/25/85)

> It was "Catspaw", the characters were Korob and Sylvia.  The Kelvans in
> "By Any Other Name" were also shapechangers.  

The Kelvans had external power.  Remember all the stuff they
installed in engineering?