Captain Kirk is performing a wedding ceremony. A lucky crewman is marrying a space girl, or at least he would be if there wasn’t a red alert going on. Panic!
It’s an exciting episode. The Romulan Empire exists right next to good ol’ British Earth space. After a long war, space was divided up and a series of outposts were set up. We learn that despite the long history, no human has ever seen a Romulan. What? How did they negotiate the different territories if they‘ve never seen each other. Oh well, never mind.
A Romulan ship has violated the neutral zone between Romulan and Earth space and is destroying the outposts. After a big build-up the Romulan vessel appears, blasts an outpost to smithereens, and then vanishes. Spock tells the crew that invisibility is theoretically possible. Which explains why I can never find my car keys.
To Trek or not to Trek, that is the question. The Conscience of the King begins with a scene from Macbeth, in which that rascal Macbeth (played by famed Shakespearean actor of the future, Karidian) murders King Duncan, delivering the line “Will all Neptune’s great ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?” (a line which, incidentally, seems to sum up the storyline of this episode). In the audience is the familiar face of Captain Kirk, eating popcorn and drinking from a 20oz bladder-bustin’ beverage. Kirk doesn’t seem the type to watch Shakespeare. Not enough monster trucks. Perhaps they’ve tweaked the ending to include some stunts? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to Starbase 11 for a big Starfleet cheese and wine party only to be informed that there is no party and that no invitation was sent.
The landing party learn that Pike, the former Captain of the Enterprise has had a terrible accident, leaving him looking like the ugly brother of Davros, and only able to communicate by flashing a light once for yes, twice for no and three times for I’m a hideous mutant – kill me now!
Oh, I do love a good manoeuvre. The crew of the Enterprise would have also welcomed a good manoeuvre at the beginning of this episode because they’re stuck with the boring task of making star maps. They’re getting restless. That is until a giant Rubik’s Cube blocks their path. It’s a red alert moment.
When the ship cannot escape the Rubik’s Cube of Annoyance, Bailey, a young crewman (with an old face), raises his voice in alarm. Spock coolly tells him there’s no need to raise his voice. In fact as the episode goes on, Bailey will frequently over-react. It’s his thing.
Like a bad smell, the cube seems impossible to lose. Mr Sulu puts his foot on the accelerator and it keeps pace with them, spinning faster and faster. It’s very disco. Ultimately they blast it to bits and this is where their problems really begin. A spectacular sphere made up of other spheres appears (at least in the remastered version it does, the original is less impressive). ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, so perhaps not technically a space girl yet, but a cadet space girl is better than no space girl at all (especially when played by former American Idol Carrie Underwood). A group of cadets are put through their paces by a Russian cosmonaut, but thanks to Vitamin Water, no challenge is too great.
Captain Kirk is performing a wedding ceremony. A lucky crewman is marrying a space girl, or at least he would be if there wasn’t a red alert going on. Panic!
When the ship cannot escape the Rubik’s Cube of Annoyance, Bailey, a young crewman (with an old face), raises his voice in alarm. Spock coolly tells him there’s no need to raise his voice. In fact as the episode goes on, Bailey will frequently over-react. It’s his thing.
