This is a pretty nifty episode featuring telepathy, consciousness transference, traveling into unknown voids, pandora’s boxes (even if said box looks like a giant tabletop rolodex), infectuous insanity and Spock in a really dorky looking pair of goggles. Also: Leonard Nimoy so obviously has a cold during production and delivers all his lines stuffed-up. Welcomed to the series are some hand-held shots, wide-angled tracking shots, jump cuts, spooky gothic pipe organ music and nutty flashes of Brakhage-esque color treatment.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.