Vampire Cloud | Star Trek TOS 2x13

It's a Monster of the Week episode, but let's see if we can't psychoanalyze our favorite space himbo a little bit along the way.
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Review of “Obsession", Star Trek (The Original Series), Season 2, Episode 13. Production #47. Directed by Ralph Senensky. Written by Art Wallace. Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, and Deforest Kelley as Leonard "Bones" McCoy. Featuring James Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura, Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov, and Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel. Guest starring Stephen Brooks as Ensign Garrovick and Stockard Channing as Rizzo. NBC, 1967.
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[@redblack9618]

ren the rizzo joke was good

[@WolfEthereal]

Have a special place for this one. First aired on the BBC on 13 July 1970. At the the closing titles my mother went into labour. I was born the following morning. Possibly the origin of my obsession with star trek?

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s a hell of a story.

[@coolcucumber372]

Spock doesn’t seem to be the only crew member with a depressing backstory. I’ve sometimes hoped they’d make a film/series which looks back on his youth, like they did with Spock in discovery. I have to give Ensign Garrovick some sympathy that no one brought up the fact that he lost his father quite young!

[@subscorpion9560]

This is one of my top favorites. Shows a different side of Kirk, a traumatized victim who survived a horrible slaughter and is reliving it again when the creature responsible returns. Kirk remembers every details of the monster and disregards his primary mission to avenge his old crew and prevent another from getting killed.

[@elim_inator]

This episode is actually one of my favorites from TOS, even though I keep forgetting that it exists. But it feels very real in a sense, like those are real humans having real reactions to their situation. And all of that while the villain is just a cloud made of very 60's special effects!

[@kirok2011]

okay Ren you got with the good will hunting clip , Love this review

[@silversam]

Aw yessss more Ren the Barbarian on TOS 😃 "When suddenly faced with the unknown or imminent danger, a human will invariably experience a split second of indecision." Spock's big green heart is in the right place but his pep talks still need work. Great read! And great use of Good Will Hunting 😮 Also I wouldn't be mad at more singing in future episodes please 😁💜

[@silversam]

"...heart is in the right place..." regardless of anything McCoy says 😆

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

You left out Leslie who dies in this episode. He is also referenced by name so he is not someone that happens to have his face. That happened in TOS allot. He will be in later episodes and called by name.