1/2
This is kind’ve a dopey episode, I’ll admit, but it is great fun to watch. The Enterprise is whipped around by a “black star” (the term “black hole” did not exist in 1966!) and, whaddya know, they are back in time. And — oops! — spotted by a very Kirk-like Air Force captain. So now they gotta destroy the evidence *and* get home. And no matter what they do, they keep making matters worse. If you don’t mind seeing Kirk & co. acting like the Keystone Kops, this episode is for you. (And that the computer has been programmed to be “more like a woman” doesn’t help matters either.) Alas, the last segment ties all the lose ends waaaaay to quickly (basically Spock runs around giving everyone a Vulcan Nerve Pinch and Scotty “makes a calculation”) but don’t hold it against this episode too much. This was something of a mindfuck for its day.
