This episode has many qualities I enjoyed. I liked the tight scripting - the ending reveal of Nurse Chapel injecting spock and holding his essence was hidden from the viewer and is a well executed plot twist to end the show on.
There is a chess like feel to this episode throughout. With Sargon and Henoch and the episode is structured in a manner that we perceive Henoch as having the upper hand throughout.
What is love without physical touch ---- well, apparently it is just 'ok' but nothing beats the real thing according to the pure energy beings. That makes sense to me ---- Looks like you can take the body away from the being but you cannot get away from pesky biology.
I have this friend who is a bit crazy and he has a theory that our bodies are just a shell and only when we die does the real begin when we achieve pure energy status and become one with the universe. This episode paints that experience as being one of memory and regret for the loss of the physical shell.
I am a constant critic of star trek pacing issues but this episodes moves along quickly with one scene leading into another. It almost has a movie type feel to it. It was a good creative decision to have the voices be altered when inhabiting the host ---- it really sold the idea that they had taken over.
There is a chess like feel to this episode throughout. With Sargon and Henoch and the episode is structured in a manner that we perceive Henoch as having the upper hand throughout.
What is love without physical touch ---- well, apparently it is just 'ok' but nothing beats the real thing according to the pure energy beings. That makes sense to me ---- Looks like you can take the body away from the being but you cannot get away from pesky biology.
I have this friend who is a bit crazy and he has a theory that our bodies are just a shell and only when we die does the real begin when we achieve pure energy status and become one with the universe. This episode paints that experience as being one of memory and regret for the loss of the physical shell.
I am a constant critic of star trek pacing issues but this episodes moves along quickly with one scene leading into another. It almost has a movie type feel to it. It was a good creative decision to have the voices be altered when inhabiting the host ---- it really sold the idea that they had taken over.