In "That Which Survives", the Enterprise beams down a landing party to a bizarre unexplored planet. After Kirk, Bones, Sulu, and a geologist head down, the Enterprise is inexplicably hurled across 1,000 light years of space. Both parties assume the other have been destroyed. The landing party tries to figure out a way to survive on this poisonous planet. The Enterprise tries to head back for Kirk & Co. as quick as possible.
But a strange woman continues to pop up on both the Enterprise and the surface of the planet. Her touch is deadly, but only if she means to exterminate you! She's programmed to disrupt one person's specific cells and can only kill that person, otherwise she's useless. After learning this, the landing party can defend themselves. Sadly, the geologist dies. The landing party finds a computer system creating these women.
Meanwhile the woman robot on the Enterprise has fiddled with the engines and matter/anti-matter mix. It's rigged to explode until some quick thinking from Scotty and Spock. They show up at the planet just in time to save the landing crew and destroy the computer which turns out to be an automated defense system left by an extinct race.
Spock is my favorite character from The Original Series. I love him. That being said... he's unbearable in this episode. He's hot dogging it all over the place during this episode. He's extremely snarky and over the top with his Vulcan-iness. I'm glad he's normally not turned up to 11 like this.
Regarding the rest of the episode, it's not laughably bad or anything. It's just lazy. They don't try anything exciting, there's nothing fun going on here. The writers, the actors, the director, everyone is just phoning it in here. I'm sensing a bit of fatigue here in Season 3 as we near the end. With limited budget and bad scripts, I can't say I blame them.
But a strange woman continues to pop up on both the Enterprise and the surface of the planet. Her touch is deadly, but only if she means to exterminate you! She's programmed to disrupt one person's specific cells and can only kill that person, otherwise she's useless. After learning this, the landing party can defend themselves. Sadly, the geologist dies. The landing party finds a computer system creating these women.
Meanwhile the woman robot on the Enterprise has fiddled with the engines and matter/anti-matter mix. It's rigged to explode until some quick thinking from Scotty and Spock. They show up at the planet just in time to save the landing crew and destroy the computer which turns out to be an automated defense system left by an extinct race.
Spock is my favorite character from The Original Series. I love him. That being said... he's unbearable in this episode. He's hot dogging it all over the place during this episode. He's extremely snarky and over the top with his Vulcan-iness. I'm glad he's normally not turned up to 11 like this.
Regarding the rest of the episode, it's not laughably bad or anything. It's just lazy. They don't try anything exciting, there's nothing fun going on here. The writers, the actors, the director, everyone is just phoning it in here. I'm sensing a bit of fatigue here in Season 3 as we near the end. With limited budget and bad scripts, I can't say I blame them.