Saturday, January 14, 2017

"Star Trek" Requiem for Methuselah (1969)

Rigellian Fever Strikes the Enterprise



Season 3, episode 19. The crew of the Enterprise is struck with the deadly Rigellian Fever. They head and arrive at the planet Holberg 917-G to search for the mineral Ryetalyn for create a cure for the fever. When they arrive their sensors detect no humanoid life. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down and are attacked by a robot. Flint calls off his robot, Flint wants them to leave but Kirk refuses calls Scotty and has him to standby with ships phasers to kill all 4 of them. Then when McCoy explains that the seriousness of the illness is like the bubonic plague that struck Constantinople in 1334. Flint gives them 2 hours to get the Ryetalyn with the help of his robot M4. Flint invites them back to his place while M4 gathers the mineral needed. Spock takes readings which shows the building's materials are more modern and not ancient. Flint's ward, Rayna, wants to meet them and she is interested Spock for his physics knowledge but Flint is interested in Rayna. M4 has the Ryetalyn and McCoy examines it to find it's useless, it is contaminated with irilium. Now they must find out what Flint's game is, why Rayna is there, find good Ryetalyn, get back to the ship to make the cure and get their crew well.

Not a bad episode at all. One of the better season 3 episodes.

8/10

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