Hello friends and welcome to a belated video from my series called "Quick thoughts on",
in which I talk about different stories from the Star
Trek franchise.
This video will be about the next episode of the original series of Star Trek called
"Catspaw".
This is the only Halloween episode they have ever done in Star Trek.
Thank God.
I never understood Halloween.
From what I know it's an American holiday where people scare each other and kids dress
up like monsters to get sweets.
Never understood the appeal, but I hope you guys have fun.
Now I'm not really sure if this episode is trying to be scary, or funny, but
it's not really scary or really funny.
We start with the captain, Uhura and Spock trying to contact a landing
party consisting of Jackson, Sulu and Scott and only Jackson
beams on board.
Hm, Jackson and Halloween?
I should maybe play Thriller right now.
Oh wait, this Jackson is white, which means I should play something from the
90's, and I don't like his music from that era.
Anyway drops dead.
And whatever bad things you want to say about the old Star Trek, you have no right to criticise
the stunt men.
This is just episode 7 of the second season and we have seen a stuntman doing a back-flip
in Who Mourns for Adonais and injuring his back, in The Apple we have
seen a guy inside an explosion, and now we have a stuntman doing a very
painful fall.You have my respect guys.
Anyway the fact that Jackson is dead is no problem for him, he still manages
to tell Kirk that his ship is under a spell and that they should leave.
But no corpse will stop Kirk, he, Bones and Spock beam down to the same place from which
Jackson was transported, and the only thing they find are rocks
and mist.
Mist, which should definitely not be there.
We cut to the bridge and this is chronologically the first appearance by Chekov, and what the
hell does he have on his head?
Couldn't they give him a less horrible wig?
Our heroes down on the planet meet something which they didn't expect - 3 transparent women.
I always thought that judging by their looks they are supposed
to be stereotypical third wave feminists, but after a small google search it looks like
they are supposed to be witches and they are supposed to be just floating
heads.
I usually don't complain about special effects, but come on.
Those are definitely women in black outfits.
Whoever filmed their scene, he has done a stupid mistake by lighting
their faces from the bottom and the light reflects from their clothes, completely ruining
the effect.
It's sad that they didn't fix it in the CGI effects version.
After listening to their "bad poetry" as Spock called it, they are literally blown
away until they suddenly see a castle.
I mean all WE see is just a door, but judging by the dialogue it should be an entrance
to a castle.
It's great that the CGI version changed the establishing shot and now it actually SHOWS
a castle.
Inside the castle they meet a black cat.
They follow her, when it's heavily implied that the floor collapsed under
their feet and they fell down into a prison chamber.
The cat of course enjoys watching them suffer.
When they wake up they find themselves on something what looks
could be a set from 50 Shades of Grey, when suddenly they are welcomed by
Scotty and Sulu, who are now basically zombies.
After getting free Kirk attacks them, but they are now suddenly transported
to Elton John's bedroom.
A bald guy sits on a throne with the all seeing eye on his chest.
No, before anybody says in the comments section, it's not an "illuminati
confirmed" type of scenario, he is supposed to be a wizard name Korob.
Then we see his partner sitting next to him.
He grabs her by the pussy.
OK that doesn't sound correct.
He grabs his pussy.
OK let me rephrase it - he talks with his cat.
Using his magic wand he creates a lot of prop food, but our heroes are not
impressed.
So he tries to create gems, but they still are not impressed.
You can't bribe Kirk with jewels, maybe if you tried to offer him a
hot alien girl you would be more successful.
But no, it looks like in the future they can simply create so many jewels as they
want.
So the cat leaves the room and a young woman named Sylvia enters the
room.
And it's edited so strangely that when I've seen this as a kid, I couldn't make inside
my brain the connection that the cat and the woman are the same being.
The woman seems nice at first, but then she explains that
she is the one who killed Jackson with her mind.
No, no Michael Jackson death jokes here.
To prove that she has such a power she pulls a model of the Enterprise
out of her ass and hangs it over a candle.
She then gives Kirk a communicator to find out what the situation on the ship
is, and we find out that the real Enterprise is overheating too, and they
will basically burn alive if nothing happens.
So Kirk takes the model out of the flame, but Korob closes it inside this
weird transparent thing, which in reality means that the Enterprise is trapped inside
a force field which they can't beam through.
Sylvia wants McCoy to stay but sends Kirk and Spock back to prison.When they see Bones
the next time, he is a brainwashed zombie too.
They bring Kirk to Sylvia and I don't think that I have to explain what will happen.
I mean it's Kirk alone in a room with the female guest star of the week, what could
possibly happen, right?
She tries different outfits and different haircuts, before she realizes that he's not
into role playing, and even though he kissed her he has no real interest
in her, he's just collecting information.
Korob, who has secretly watched them make out has decided to later
rescue Kirk and Spock.
Why?
Was it jealousy?
Did he want to get rid of the humans so that he can have Sylvia for
himself?
Or is it compassion?
Does he suddenly feel bad for keeping sentient beings in prison as a toy for a crazy
woman who will torture them?
They try to escape, when they suddenly see a shadow of a cat.
Again, I don't really want to complain about the effects, I know this was shot 50 years
ago with a budget less then the catering budget
on today's shows, but this is clearly just a giant shadow of a small cat.
Couldn't they I don't know, film the cat against a blue screen and composite it into the scene?
Was it a money issue?
And why do they say that cats are scary?
Spock says it like a fact that all humans are afraid of cats.
Really?
If I go to youtube I don't see tons of videos of people saying how they are afraid of cats.
Cats are cute, not scary.
They tried to show that the cat is huge at least in one shot, when they let it walk through
a miniature set, but it's just this one shot.
It's a pity they didn't do more.
The three guys decide to run back to the cell, which has
suddenly a bed there.
Is this supposed to be the same cell in which they were captured before?
Because this cell has the bed and the huge hole in the ceiling.
Kirk helps Spock climb up, but the cat attacks and Korob gets squished
by the door.
Wow.
The most worthless wizard in the history of television.
When Kirk finds out he's dead, he finds the time to steal his wand and with Spock's
help he climbs up, when they suddenly get attacked by zombie
versions of the other crew members.
They get in a fight which is far more entertaining in the blooper reels,
if you haven't seen them you definitely should.
I had them on my channel before they got removed by CBS, but I'm
pretty sure you should be able to find them without any real problems.
Kirk shows the shadow of the cat that he has the transmutor, Sylvia in her human form wants
it pretty badly.
You see the magic wand is the transmutor, which
is a device which amplifies their natural superpowers.
I think.
As soon as Kirk understands how important the thing is
for her, he smashes it, and suddenly they all stand on a bunch of Styrofoam rocks.
It's hard to see it from still images but the "rocks" move below their feet, almost
like their were filled with air.
And then we see the real Korob and Sylvia.
They are clearly puppets on strings, and I'm so grateful that they removed the strings
for the CGI version.
However the creatures suddenly die and start to burn.
The end?
OK OK OK - what just happened?
Why did the destruction of the transmutor reversed everything back?
I mean I know that the show needed some "undo button", but what
sense does this make?
And why were there 2 creatures moving?
Didn't Korob die in the cell?
And why did they die immediately after the transmutor was destroyed?
And why did they start to smoke?
Was there a cut scene in which Kirk phasered them to death?
Really, the ending is just stupid.
Speaking about the two of them - what was their motivation?
What was their plan?
They were hinting something, saying that they need the humans, but why?
I don't know about you , but I like my villains fully developed with clear plan,
and clear motivation.
These 2 are in the story only because the story needed some villains which will have
some magical superpowers.
As I said several times before, I like stories in which strange things happen and we as the
audience doesn't really know what will happen next.
That's why I really, really like the first half of the episode, before we meet Korob
and Sylvia.
As soon as we find out who they are the story stops being interesting.
For me of course.
So I'd personally give the first half 10 / 10, but maybe 2 out of
10 to the second half.
Still, it's a very enjoyable episode, and a good
one for the Halloween season, but it's not an episode which you would consider to be
in the top 10 episodes.
On my scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is absolute garbage,
10 is a masterpiece and 5 is average, I would give this episode 6 out of 10.
It's definitely above average, but the second half kills it for me.
But as always those were just MY opinions, feel free
to write YOUR opinions down in the comments section, if you liked this video hit that
thumbs up button and feel free to watch any of the previous videos I have done
about different episodes, and me?
I still have to do a video about the next episodes
of Star Trek and Star Trek The Next Generation, and I hope they will be up as soon as possible.
Thanks a lot for watching everybody, and see you soon.
Bye.
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