Who Mourns For Adonais? TOS 2
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I am. . .Apollo! Bum-BUMMMM!! It’s one of the goofiest moments in Trek made even goofier with the borscht belt rebuttal from Mr. Chekov (”And I’m the Tsar of all the Russias!!”) As I’ve mentioned before, it is silly to criticize Trek for looking low budget. . .but this episode looks REALLY low budget. There they are on this tiny stage, facing down Apollo who, lucky for them, dissolves off screen from time to time so Kirk & co. can think up their next move. If you squint you can get a clear vision of the grips smoking cigarettes five feet from the risers on this dopey faux-Hellenic set. Story-wise, there’s a kernel of a cool idea here. Ancient Greece was actually aliens? But it gets all bogged down with Apollo’s high falutin’ talk, nothing is explained, we have another female crew member in love with the baddie (”Space Seed” anyone?) and somehow Mr. Spock on the bridge of an Enterprise clutched in a giant green space-hand with no communications manages to know that Kirk is being held by Apollo. First and only time evidence of Vulcan ESP — or is it just a show rushed into production with no time to ADR-out one word obviously left in from a previous cut?