Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 5767686, the ship is orbiting Elba 8... we're bringing a revolutionary new medicine to a lunatic asylum, a medicine with which we hope to eliminate mental illness for all time." Can this thing cure rabid Trekkies, too? That would be a feat...
So Garth, this episode's loony/baddie, got his power of "switcherooing" by "mastering a skill"?? Where do I sign up for courses such as "Switcherooing 101" and "Advanced Switcherooing 500" in which you "learn"(!) how to assume a person's physical appearance - complete with the exact same clothes, voice, everything? An extremely silly basis for an escape from a loony bin.
Kirk: "... A dream that made me and Mr.Spock brothers." What a strange conclusion this was to a moralistic speech that Kirk, for some strange reason, deems not pointless to give to Garth and the other crazies. A little later, Spock shows the same perplexing lack of wisdom when he too tries to reason with the mentally insane, talking about logic (of all things).
In WGD, Kirk is timid, apathetic, mild-mannered, spineless, incompetent, even close to grovelling at one point. Spock is stupid: he isn't capable of asking the two Kirks a question that only the real Kirk knows the answer to, like for example: "Which animal were you forced to impersonate on Plutonia ("Plato's Stepchildren"), and whom did you have to kiss there?" Instead, Spock's rapidly deteriorating season-3 logic tells him to let the two Kirks "fight it out, the winner having to be the fake Kirk, because the real Kirk is too tired".
Most of this visually nice but dull/pointless episode consists of padding: Marta (the "green bitch" - Eddie Murphy) reciting poetry, Marta dancing, Marta getting blown up for no reason (but okay, they're all loonies, right?), Garth giving speeches, Kirk/Spock giving speeches... It takes Kirk and Spock a relative eternity to finally out-smart a handful of loonies. The plot mostly goes in circles, clueless as how to unfold itself. Considering that the inmates are all insane, how come the ex-captain keeps them so disciplined and quiet all the time?
So Garth, this episode's loony/baddie, got his power of "switcherooing" by "mastering a skill"?? Where do I sign up for courses such as "Switcherooing 101" and "Advanced Switcherooing 500" in which you "learn"(!) how to assume a person's physical appearance - complete with the exact same clothes, voice, everything? An extremely silly basis for an escape from a loony bin.
Kirk: "... A dream that made me and Mr.Spock brothers." What a strange conclusion this was to a moralistic speech that Kirk, for some strange reason, deems not pointless to give to Garth and the other crazies. A little later, Spock shows the same perplexing lack of wisdom when he too tries to reason with the mentally insane, talking about logic (of all things).
In WGD, Kirk is timid, apathetic, mild-mannered, spineless, incompetent, even close to grovelling at one point. Spock is stupid: he isn't capable of asking the two Kirks a question that only the real Kirk knows the answer to, like for example: "Which animal were you forced to impersonate on Plutonia ("Plato's Stepchildren"), and whom did you have to kiss there?" Instead, Spock's rapidly deteriorating season-3 logic tells him to let the two Kirks "fight it out, the winner having to be the fake Kirk, because the real Kirk is too tired".
Most of this visually nice but dull/pointless episode consists of padding: Marta (the "green bitch" - Eddie Murphy) reciting poetry, Marta dancing, Marta getting blown up for no reason (but okay, they're all loonies, right?), Garth giving speeches, Kirk/Spock giving speeches... It takes Kirk and Spock a relative eternity to finally out-smart a handful of loonies. The plot mostly goes in circles, clueless as how to unfold itself. Considering that the inmates are all insane, how come the ex-captain keeps them so disciplined and quiet all the time?